TOP 25 SHOWS 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW.

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• A non-anime will win Show of the Year for a third straight year in 2018, the longest stretch since 2002-04.
• For the first time, a webisode series will take home the big prize this year.
• There were 32 No. 1 shows on the T-10 chart this year, a new record.
• Of the 32 No. 1 shows, eleven shows were anime leading for 19 weeks. That is up from 17 last year.
• It was another big year for debuts. Forty-three shows debuted in 2018. Of the 43 debuts, a record eleven (around 26%) debuted at No. 1: Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Jan. 20), The New Adventures of Lassie (Feb. 17), Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid (Mar. 24), Dagashi Kashi (Apr. 14), Vampirina (Jul. 7), Cells At Work! (Jul. 21), Asobi Asobase (Sept. 15), The Dragon Prince (Oct. 6), Castlevania (Nov. 3), GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (Nov. 24), and Frankenstein Family (Dec. 1).
• Three shows again debuted at No. 1 on the Top 25 Shows chart: JK-Meshi! In January, Cells At Work! In September, and The Dragon Prince in November. It was the first No. 1 debut in September in 10 years, and the first in November in eleven.
• After a year with no anime in the top-10 of the Year-End chart in 2017, there are three in the top-10 this year.

The list:

• DC Super Hero Girls takes the Show of the Year title for 2018. For the second year in a row, the Show of the Year victor wins in a rather convincing fashion.
• The Show of the Year again dominates the Top 25 Shows chart. Hero led the survey for six non-consecutive months, including five consecutive months (April, May, June, July, and August). However the show leads the T-10 chart just four times this year (Mar. 17, Jul. 14, Nov. 10, and Dec. 29). That is the fewest T-10 chart No. 1’s for a show that led the Top 25 Shows chart six or more times.
• Hero did put up a near record number of No. 2 weeks. It wound up in the runner-up slot 12 times this year, the third most in chart history for a single year. This is behind Digimon’s haul of No. 2’s in 2000 (14) and 2001 (13).
• Hero was the biggest grossing show of 2018 grossing 23.17 billion grosses, just short of last year’s record set by Steven Universe.
• DC Super Hero Girls beat runner-up OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes 463-354 points (56.7% to 43.3%). That is a staggering 13.4% victory, the largest in the inverse point system era. The previous best was the 11.4% victory Sister Princess had over The Rachel Maddow Show in 2010.
• Top 25 Shows has gone back and done Show of the Year battles using the inverse point system for 1998-2008. In that scenario, this year’s massive percentage victory is the largest since 2004 when Jakers!: The Adventures of Piggley Winks beat InuYasha by a colossal 20 point margin! The percentage share that the leading show got between the two shows was also the largest since 2004.
• The huge victory is mainly thanks to the dominating showing from Hero on the Annual Gross Races chart. In points it beat its nearest competitor by 44 points cruising to a 12.7 billion gross advantage over The Bold and the Beautiful.
• OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes finished 2^nd. OK K.O. led in March and received 354 points. Like DC Super Hero Girls, OK K.O. also had four No. 1’s (a hat trick from Jan. 27 to Feb. 10 and May 19 which gave the show the No. 1 week grossing record).
• OK K.O. finished the year 4^th in grosses moving 9.39 billion grosses.
• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic finished 3^rd for a second year. Pony did not lead the Top 25 Shows chart in 2018, but did lead the T-10 chart three times (Apr. 28, a tie with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on May 26, and Oct. 27).
• Pony finished 3^rd on the Annual Gross Races chart grossing 9.71 billion grosses.
• Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is the first of three anime in the top-10 finishing 4^th. Maid’s 4^th place finish was thanks to receiving two Greatest Gainers and a Pacesetter. It led only one T-10 chart: its No. 1 debut on Mar. 24.
• Maid grossed 6.2 billion grosses in 2018 finishing 9^th on the Annual Gross Races chart.
• H2O: Mermaid Adventures finished 5^th. H2O led one T-10 chart on Apr. 7 and grossed 5.75 billion grosses, finishing 14^th on the AGR chart. H2O led the Annual Gross Races chart for five weeks from Feb. 3 to Mar. 3.
• RWBY finished 6^th. Another webisode series, RWBY led one T-10 chart on May 5 and peaked at No. 3 on the Top 25 Shows chart in June. It was the 15^th biggest grossing show of 2018 grossing 5.74 billion grosses. Top 25 Shows was unsure to consider RWBY an anime (it was ultimately decided that it was for chart purposes in late April).
• DuckTales finished 7^th. A reboot of the classic 1980’s and 90’s Disney show, DuckTales led for three weeks on the T-10 chart (a hat trick from Aug. 11 to Aug. 25). It was the second of a pair of back-to-back hat tricks. It was the 8^th biggest grossing show of 2018, moving 7.25 billion grosses.
• Cells At Work finished 8^th. Cells debuted at No. 1 on September and remained at No. 1 in October. Cells led all shows in T-10 chart No. 1’s with five (a hat trick from Jul. 21 to Aug. 4, Sept. 1, and Sept. 22). Cells was the 6^th biggest grossing show of 2018 grossing 8.14 billion grosses.
• Steven Universe, last year’s Show of the Year, finished 9^th. Steven led one Top 25 Shows chart in February and two T-10 charts: Jan. 13 and May 12. Steven was the 5^th biggest grossing show of 2018 grossing 8.58 billion grosses.
• The Young and the Restless rounds out the top-10. It led no Top 25 Shows or T-10 charts. The show actually struggled for a good chunk of the year until September when it started grossing on a regular basis. The daytime soap grossed 7.52 billion grosses, enough for a 7^th place finish on the AGR chart.

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