What this is
Pokémon's rank and share in Bandai's yearly national survey of children's favourite character, beside Yo-kai Watch's, 2013 to 2018: Pokémon 3rd in 2013, 8th in 2014 as Yo-kai Watch entered 2nd, 4th in 2017 as Yo-kai Watch faded, and both outside the top ten in 2018.
How it’s built
- The overall top-ten tables were read from Bandai's survey reports for each year from 2013 to 2018 and set side by side.
- The two shares were added to see whether Yo-kai Watch first grew the monster-collecting segment and then took Pokémon's place within it.
What we assumed
- Shares can be compared across 2013 to 2018.Bandai used the same method from 2013, a national online panel of 800 parents giving one answer each; the only later change was asking about any child rather than the eldest from 2017.
Sanity check
Pokémon's low years, 2014 to 2016, are exactly the years Yo-kai Watch was first or second, and its 2017 recovery is the year Yo-kai Watch's share halved.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.