Anime catching up to manga super quickly

[Assertn]

i did notice the practicality of putting vol #'s there instead of anything else, but I dont think people use the frame of mind to interpret vol #'s into anything.....
chapter #'s would probably be best for the left side in this case.

by the way, does that thing update every week? if so, then good work....I was thinking of putting some online calendar thingy that predicts where the final week is based on the constantly changing ratio

[Ithmatic]

The only problem with calculating the ratio by using only the first and latest releases is that it puts too much weight on the last release. If the last release was a slow one (in terms of storyline progression) then the line will be estimated too shallow. The graph interpolates ALL points so that any inconsistencies are averaged out.

As for the chapters instead of volumes, i guess i could do that...its just a straight mapping right? Is that more understandable to manga readers? (I wouldn't know, I'm a manga virgin).

It doesn't update every week. The way I create it is by using release dates on narutofan.com, but the dates are only for the volumes. So, I can only add a datapoint to the anime line when it reaches the end of a certain volume. I could use a smaller granularity (i.e. chapters) but that would take waay too long. I think the anime has reached another volume so I could add one more data point in there. ANYways, the point is that at most I could only update it like every 1-2 months, when the anime reaches the end of a new volume.

[Assertn]

I knew there was a flaw in your graph, but it didnt occur to me until just now what it actually was......
you're interpolating outliers for the anime, but not for the manga. Because of this, it seems that the anime is catching up at a faster rate than it actually is.

As of right now, you're averaging in the weeks where no naruto manga is released, thus the overall slope of the manga line permanently decreases everytime that happens. What should happen, is that the line shifts to the right whenever a week is skipped, while maintaining the same slope.

[Ithmatic]

Oh Assertn, I thought about your comment a bit and I understand what you mean now about averaging in the months when no manga volume is released. I agree that it's shiftng the line too much to the right. I'll try and fix that for the next update, thanks.

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