The official Twitter Japan blog recently published the top 10 hashtags of the year and other various popular terms.
Before the top tens, here’s the top one mascot character:
Statistics
Most popular hashtags of the year
Rank Tag Meaning 1 #艦ã“ã‚Œ kankore is the abbreviation for Kantai Collection, an amine series featuring (I believe) schoolgirls who dress up as battleships; probably some of the popularity comes off last year’s similarly-themed series on a girls’ school that races tanks. 2 #ã‚ã¾ã¡ã‚ƒã‚“ “Ama-chan” is a popular live-action drama series. 3 #lovelive Love Live, subtitled “School Idol Project”, appears to be another schoolgirl-themed anime. 4 #wbc World Baseball Classic is baseball’s World Cup 5 #shingeki Known in English as “Attack on Titan”, this is another anime, although this time with big swords. 6 #ff14 Final Fantasy 14, a computer game. 7 #tv_free Another animation series, this time called just “Free”. 8 #railgun “A Certain Magical Railgun” is yet another animation series, this time with scientific wizardry as the theme, it seems. 9 #vividred “Vividred Operation” is, yes, yet another animation, and from a quick search it seems to fall well into appealing to the kiddie-fiddler demographic. 10 #c84 This appears to be an abbreviation for the 2013 Summer Comic Market, the 84th time it has been held. Most often mentioned television dramas
Rank Drama Translation/transliteration 1 ã‚ã¾ã¡ã‚ƒã‚“ Ama-chan 2 åŠæ²¢ç›´æ¨¹ Hanzawa Naoki 3 リーガルãƒã‚¤ Legal High 4 家æ—ゲームKazoku Game 5 ガリレオ Galileo 6 ラスト・シンデレラ Last Cinderella 7 å…«é‡ã®æ¡œ Yae no Sakura 8 å¤ç‹¬ã®ã‚°ãƒ«ãƒ¡ Kodoku no Gurume 9 ã”ã¡ãã†ã•ã‚“ Gochisousan 10 夜行観覧車 Yakoukanransha Most often mentioned sports
Rank Sport 1 Baseball 2 Football (soccer) 3 Tennis 4 Horse racing 5 Olympics 6 Gymnastics 7 Golf 8 Marathon 9 Football World Cup 10 Sumo Most often mentioned technology-related keywords
Rank Keyword 1 LINE 2 3 4 Electronic books 5 Kindle 6 iPhone5 7 Apple 8 Xperia 9 PS4 10 Wii U Most often mentioned yuru-character, mascot character
Rank Character 1 Funassi 2 Sanomaru 3 Kumamon 4 Hachimaru 5 Barii-san 6 Shippei 7 Fukka-chan 8 Hikonyan 9 Chiiba-kun 10 Yanana
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