Time Series Model to Predict Future Popular Animes Genres in 2025

Abstract

Anime is a form of animated media originating from Japan, where it is mostly characterized by its unique style and is exclusively made in Japan. In the current digital era, anime is now very prevalent not only for Japanese consumers, but the entire world. With this much relevance behind anime, this paper proposes some observations of genres which trend over time. This is mostly to help creative teams behind anime studios to appeal to international audiences in the near future using the Prophet time-series. The resulting model has been evaluated with an RMSE of 1.102 and a MAPE of 13.551%. The model predicts that the genres Super Power, Demons, and Supernatural will trend upwards, while the genres Josei, Cars, and Kids will trend downwards into the year 2025.