What this is
Pokémon's rank among the favourite characters of school-age boys in Bandai's yearly survey, 2006 to 2018: first every year from 2006 to 2013 among boys aged six to eight, second behind Yo-kai Watch from 2014 to 2016, and outside the top three by 2018.
How it’s built
- The boys' age-band tables were read from Bandai's survey reports for each year from 2006 to 2018.
What we assumed
- Ranks, not shares, carry across 2012 and 2013.Bandai moved from multiple answers to a single answer and cut the sample in 2013, which lowers shares for reasons of method; ranks are less affected.
Sanity check
Yo-kai Watch took 32% of six-to-eight-year-old boys' answers in 2014, against Pokémon's 13%.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.