Chances of a season 2?

cambo1324 said:
I feel like the show lacked any real hook, I watched it from start to finish and it started to feel repetitive and it needed an actual plot to thrive. Keeping everything the same but incorporating a plot (ie a love triangle etc) would've made the show more enjoyable and the ending would've meant alot more because of that. That's just thoughts though.

NeJojofag said:
Maybe in 1-2 years, the studio is not very strong + the anime failed in terms of ratings even in Japan

cambo1324 said:
I feel like the show lacked any real hook, I watched it from start to finish and it started to feel repetitive and it needed an actual plot to thrive. Keeping everything the same but incorporating a plot (ie a love triangle etc) would've made the show more enjoyable and the ending would've meant alot more because of that. That's just thoughts though.

Jeje2020 said:
Anyone know how well this anime sold? I love this series. It was one of my favorites for the season. Currently reading the manga and I think this has enough material for another season or 2.

cambo1324 said:
I feel like the show lacked any real hook, I watched it from start to finish and it started to feel repetitive and it needed an actual plot to thrive. Keeping everything the same but incorporating a plot (ie a love triangle etc) would've made the show more enjoyable and the ending would've meant alot more because of that. That's just thoughts though.

Dinxama said:
on how flopped it is

im wouldnt see it

AnotherIdler said:
No one’s watching even if they do get it

dlee2040 said:
So let's first talk about the series' success before the anime aired.

Shikimori was already very popular in Japan, and there were roughly 3,000,000 copies in circulation for volumes 1-11 right before the anime aired.
Source: https://twitter.com/shikimori_off/status/1501393618988412933

It has also won a number of awards over the years. It ranked 5th on the NEXT Manga Award 2020 in the Web Category, it ranked 8th in the General Category of "Recommended Comics Selected by Booksellers in Japan 2020," it won and ranked 9th on the TSUTAYA Comic Award 2020 in the “Top 10 Awards and Prizes of All Time," and the series' Cultural Festival arc in the fourth volume was ranked first place on Magapoke Ranking, according to a ComicSpace interview.
Source for each award respectively:
1. https://tsugimanga.jp/winner/2020/web.html
2. https://zenkokushotenin-manga.jp/history/index_2020.html#comic
3. https://tsutaya.tsite.jp/feature/book/campaign/comic-awards/pastwinner2020
4. https://media.comicspace.jp/archives/15444/2

Now let's talk about how much manga sales have increased since the anime came out. By the time volume 13 came out on May 9th, circulation reached 3,500,000 for volumes 1-12.
Source: https://twitter.com/shikimori_off/status/1523316817174827008

When volume 14 was released on July 8th, one day before the anime ended, circulation had reached 4,000,000 for volumes 1-13.
Source: https://twitter.com/shikimori_off/status/1545060089618321408

Serialization for the series started on February 2019, so it sold over 4,000,000 copies in roughly 3.5 years, which is really good.

It's also worth noting that the week volume 13 was released, it reached top 3 in terms of individual volume sales although this was most likely due to the fact that it was new.
Source: https://twitter.com/Josu_ke/status/1527691298735812608

Volume 13 also pushed Shikimori to Oricon's top 10 weekly charts by series from May 9th to May 15th.
Source: https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1526778303100616706

Shikimori also had many promotions and collaborations, the most notable being a collaboration with Akihabara. If I remember correctly, this is the single biggest character takeover in Akihabara history.
Source: https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2233266/

Now let's talk about Japanese Twitter.

The official Shikimori anime twitter account has over 200,000 followers right now, which puts it at the second largest non-sequel twitter account of the Spring season only getting beaten out by
Spy x Family
Source: https://twitter.com/anime_follower/status/1541174766043906050 (a bit old, but still gets the point across)

The anime also got on trending after every single episode aired. Most hovered around 15,000 tweets per episode, but episodes 1, 8, and 12 were much more popular getting 40,000+ tweets, 24,000+ tweets, and 46,000+ tweets respectively.
Source: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/991434875896860682/1003268182229913670/Screenshot_59.png (sorry I only have this screenshot of episode 12 trending)

The series was also pretty popular among teenagers. According to this one site, Shikimori ranked number 2 in terms of popularity for the Spring season.
Source: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/991434875896860682/1003270463633498152/unknown.png

That's just about everything I could think at the moment. I may edit this post later if I remember anything.

Thanks to this one reddit post for compiling everything about all the awards the series has won over the years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShikimoriIsntJustCute/comments/w9db08/the_series_nominations_awards_popularity/

RioFS said:

So it was a success, right? Meaning there's a decently high chance that its going to get a S2.

dlee2040 said:

If we go strictly by the numbers, Shikimori has been fairly successful at increasing manga sales and increasing the popularity of the series. Critically, I think it’s a different story. Just because an anime is successful doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good or received well. The anime imo didn’t do the series justice, and I think this is a sentiment that many manga readers hold, both in the West and in Japan. To be honest, I think much of the anime’s popularity is due to how popular the manga series already was.

It’s also worth noting that Doga Kobo rarely does second seasons, even for popular series such as Nozaki kun. If Shikimori is getting a second season, then it’s going to have to be done by a different studio.

To be absolutely frank, even as someone who loves the manga, I low key hope that the anime doesn’t get a second season because the damage has already been done, at least from my perspective, and the anime has had more negative consequences than positive. For example, although there are more people reading the manga, the manga sort of got review bombed (7.83 to 7.73 on MAL), and even the manga fandom has kind of died out recently.