anime-ranking-trends

Top Anime in 15 years: 2006-2021 Anime ranking.

Tool (Python)

• requests
• matplotlib
• StyleGAN2 w/ unet discriminator (for anime portrait generation)

Video (YouTube)

Anime Tag Classification Examples

Anime Data Exploration

• Used crawler to download all image from URLs in dataset
• Encoded tags and filtered common tags
• Build utilities to display data / labels

Anime Tag Classification

• Used VGG16 to classify image by label
  • Multi-label classification
  • BCE loss
• Fine-tuned hyperparameters
• Testing Examples given

Anime Tag Explorations

• Designed "decay" ranking metrics
• Previous Anime tags will have a "decay" factor, tag added at day i will have weight of e^(j-i) at day j.
• Built visualized graph showing anime tag popularity shifting
• Interesting found:
  • "Touhou", once popular at 2011-2014, is replaced by "Kantai collection" since 2014.
  • People have more variated preference over time.