![]() And fans were willing to put money towards their enthusiasm. At the time of writing, a quick search on Kickstarter shows unofficial earrings, sweaters, bookbags, plush toys, and berets. The studio’s open policy has made it possible for Genshin Impact fans to make more varied products than the prints, keychains, and charms that are typically sold at artist alleys. Instead, it’s a refreshingly open policy.Īnd because of that, as should be a shock to absolutely nobody save all the game publishers that want to go the lawsuit and DMCA route, Genshin Impact has an insanely active and vibrant fan community that keeps the game’s name at the top of everyone’s mind. Hell, fans don’t even have to ask for permission to sell the merch. They don’t get sued over selling that merch. With some rules in place over the quantities being sold, this means that when it comes to miHoYo properties, fans don’t get sued over making merch. Entertainment companies like FUNimation have explicitly stated in the past that creators at artist alleys, which are exhibition spaces at fan conventions where independent artists can sell unofficial merchandise, are “infringing Funimation’s copyright rights.” And it’s generally understood among artists that properties owned by companies like Disney are completely off-limits. The legal environment for fan art is so strained that conventions like NekoCon have limited the sale of non-official merch. There are only a few restrictions and artists do not have to contact the studio for small batches under the limit. On May 21, miHoYo released its Genshin Impact Overseas Fan-Made Merchandising Guide, which explicitly permits the commercial sale of fan-made items up to 200 units. Still other gaming companies like Square have managed to let fans do some large and amazing projects with its IP.Īnd then there is Chinese gaming studio miHoYo, makers of the hit title Genshin Impact, where the studio doesn’t just allow fans to make their own art and merchandise… but also flatout tells them that they can go sell it, too. Other gaming companies at least allow fans to do some things with their properties, such as making let’s play videos and that sort of thing. There’s the Nintendo’s of the world, where strict control over all things IP is favored over allowing fans to do much of anything with its properties. The manner in which content producers generally, and video game publishers specifically, handle art and content created by their biggest fans varies wildly. This data is limited to the pixiv community, so it can’t be taken as an absolute poll on which characters are the most popular, but it’s certainly interesting to look at their popularity from the perspective of how much fanart they receive.Tue, Sep 28th 2021 08:21pm - Timothy Geigner Image credit: HYthinger on Reddit image credit: HYthinger on Reddit Starting with Lisa, these characters look comparatively older than the others, with NSFW artwork making up 30% or more of their totals. After that, we can see Jean, Rosaria, Mona, and Sara rounding out the top 5. Sorting characters this way puts Lisa in the top spot by a wide margin. What’s especially interesting, though, is looking at how much of a character’s total artwork is made up of NSFW pieces, which changes up the top rankings considerably. In the NSFW category, characters like Ganyu, Raiden Shogun, and Keqing are still in the top spots, but male characters like Zhongli and Tartaglia appear to take big drops in the rankings. As for male characters, we can see the likes of Zhongli and Tartaglia in the top 10. Other top-ranking characters include Keqing, Hu Tao, and Lumine (the female Traveler). The amount of support she gets from fans also seems evident when looking at the number of submissions to pixiv. She also wears a tight-fitting black body suit and has a charming look that likely contributes to her popularity on the visual front. Ganyu is recognized as a high-level attacker and popular even among 5-star characters. Rather than a tier list or usage list, it’s ultimately an attempt to figure out which characters are being drawn the most.įirst, the character that has received the most fanart is Ganyu with a nearly 4,000 submission lead over second-place finisher Raiden Shogun. Reddit user HYthinger has posted charts that show the total amount of artwork for each character and how much of it is NSFW content, with a chart sorting by the total of each. The site also contains tons of video game fanart, with Genshin Impact submissions exceeding 220,000 as of this writing. Pixiv is an online community for artists where users can post illustrations and manga, as well as bookmark posts by other users. One Reddit user has posted charts showing the popularity of Genshin Impact characters based on how much art of the character has been posted to pixiv. Nick Mosier based on the original Japanese article (original article’s publication date: 13:42 JST) ![]()
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