Anime Nano, my anime blog aggregator community thing, turned 1 year old this month! I was going to write a post about it, but I wanted to wait until I got a new feature finished. It's been a while since I added anything to Anime Nano.

There's already a popularity cloud thing in the footer of Anime Nano, but I wanted to make something that had more potential for discussion. Since people like charts, I figured I'd introduce some kind of weekly top ten chart that ranks the popularity of anime based on how many blog posts are written during the past week. Hence the name, Anime Nano Popularity Charts!

The charts auto-update every Sunday and make a top ten list showing the most popular anime. Only the blog posts that are "tagged" with a series count. Though it's only polling a subset of the anime blogging community (the blogs that are in Anime Nano) I still think it's a pretty fair representation of which anime are popular.

In one week, the charts will update, though you'll still be able to go back and see the previous charts, too. Let me know what you think!

we need the charts for past weeks, too

and monthly charts of course

The charts begin now, so no looking at past weeks.

Monthly charts is probably doable. 

Grats on the milestone, and monthly charts would probably be more useful than weekly charts (which would be heavily influenced by what fansubs were released that week)

Could be a nice feature!

As Kabitzin says, a monthly chart would be more useful :) 

Looks pretty cool. I haven't checked it out yet, but sounds neat! :)

it sounds cool. ah it would be nice XD

any chance you can go further than just top ten?

Yay!! ^__^ Charts will be very fun!! Yay for Anime Nano turning 1 as well!!

Happy birthday to Anime Nano!  *hearts*

I love charts.  This will be great! ^_^

 A year already? Wow... it's been a real long time. Grats, Hung!

The feature is cool I guess, more for the readers than the bloggers though imho... since the primary function I see it serving is as a recommendation giver. Unless bloggers use it to write about what everyone else is/isn't writing about... hmm. Whatever. It's cool either way :) 

EDIT: GRAPHS. It needs graphs, Hung.