Unlike most anime, Slam Dunk kept growing in popularity for weeks after its finale!
The longtime fans had moved on from the ending, where Shohoku fell in the round of sixteen!
In fact, Slam Dunk's current trajectory was already very much like what had happened in the Parallel World!
Just like Michelangelo's Venus de Milo statue, the regret of its missing arms had instead made the sculpture famous throughout the world!
Although the Shohoku players hadn't achieved their dream, the series had now taken on a similar effect, which had helped its popularity spread after the finale.
By mid-December, Slam Dunk's Average Playback Volume Per Episode in Mainland had surpassed Lelouch's 21.2 million, officially replacing it as the third most successful anime in the history of the Dragon Country Animation Industry.
As for Japan Island, Slam Dunk had officially reached the top, with an average of 6.9 million views per episode beating every rival!
But while Slam Dunk's numbers in Mainland were still inching upward, seemingly with a chance of taking the top spot for the best-performing work in the Dragon Country Animation Industry,
in Japan Island, its numbers had basically stopped growing!
After all, the region had a population of only a hundred million. That put a limit on how much the series could grow!
In Mainland, even if you excluded the fans who supported Slam Dunk with multiple accounts, roughly one out of every seventy ordinary people followed the series. But in Japan Island, nearly seven million views per episode meant that about one person in every seventeen or eighteen was a Slam Dunk fan.
When it came to the proportion of anime enthusiasts among ordinary people, the birthplace of Dragon Country anime, Japan, was indeed in a league of its own! Without such a high proportion of