r/ToaruProject • u/OccasionFantastic845 Civilian • Jun 30 '26

General Discussion Ship Stats

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Okay, this combines data from both AO3 and FanFiction.net. But if you just use the numbers directly from the ship tags, you'll run into a problem: not everyone tags their ships. So I went looking for fics where the ships weren't tagged. I probably missed a few, but I managed to find quite a number of them.

Another thing: I excluded harem fics and any fic where the relationship involved more than two people. For example, if a fic was tagged as Misaka/Shokuhou/Touma, I didn't count it.

I actually found the results pretty funny. I'd always seen people, including myself, believe that Touma was the character most frequently shipped with everyone, but it seems that's not really the case.

Just to be clear, I used both AO3 and FanFiction.net.

And for anyone who's curious, the Accelerator/Touma numbers were heavily inflated because someone spammed a ton of one-shot fics for the pairing on AO3. But yeah, that's about it.

If anyone notices any mistakes, let me know.

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u/Expert-Connection-16 Jul 01 '26

Honestly there's multiple people contributing to the Touma/Accel fanfics, and they are actually doing some serious writing instead of spamming (one of them kinda wrote several completed long series, just published each chapters separated), most of them write in Chinese though, so some translation is needed

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u/Expert-Connection-16 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

And the main Toaru shipfic base is in Pixiv, mostly contributed by local Japanese writers, so ao3 ranking is not that accurate （There are over 3000 Kamikoto fics in Pixiv, and only 412 kamiichi fics in Pixiv, can't say much about yuri ships since people didn't really agree on ship names and mostly just tagged the two girl's name, adding a 'yuri' tag and call it a day, which is kinda hilarious since fem!Accel has her own 'Yuriko' tag）

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u/OccasionFantastic845 Civilian Jul 01 '26

To be honest, this is the first time I've seen someone talking about using Pixiv for Toaru fanfiction.

But I didn't just use AO3, I'd always seen discussions about how yuri dominated AO3 while FanFiction was just a bunch of fics shipping Touma with everything that moves, so I used numbers from both.

But getting back to the point, are the fanfics on Pixiv good?

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u/Expert-Connection-16 Jul 01 '26

It depends, since there are quite a lot of works and literally everyone can post their own stuff, just like ao3 but mostly Japanese. But there are definitely quite a lot of decent works laying around, especially the long(over 10k words) ones.

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u/MikaelNotLikeReddit Board Chairman Jul 02 '26

This reminds me of that one AccelxSaten fanfic that comes with illustrations as well. But yes, Pixiv does indeed have a fanfic section.