Saw something interesting posted on reddit today in the r/dataisbeautiful subreddit and thought I’d share it here as well. See below:
Not sure about the sourcing for those figures (they took the figures off wikipedia).
Link to source: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/c53540/highest_grossing_media_franchises_oc/
Link to wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
Lol this comment sums it up
Saw this on Reddit and saved the image! I Love data like this!
Lmao “jugglepoof.”
I actually had to Google Anpanman 
I often heard that Star Wars was the second highest grossing franchise, apparently it’s not
You might be thinking of film franchises, in which case it’s second-highest grossing behind MCU
Holy smokes, I’m way more impressed by Hello Kitty’s numbers.
And growing;)
Can anybody say “100 BILLION”
From the mind of a little autistic kid to the biggest media company of all time. Just amazing.
Anpanman 
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Oh and 34 billion for Shonen jump?
Weird stuff but I like it.
The diversity of pokemon is nice.
How/why is Barbie listed as starting in 1987?
Can someone give a rough guesstimate of how each pokemon part is distributed in % in each category for us poor colorblind folk out there?
Using only the chart as reference material and converting pixels to percentage values you roughly get this distribution:
Merchandise 66,31%
Video Games 18,24%
Card Game 11,37%
Box Office 1,87%
Manga / Comics 1,57%
Home Video 0,64%
I’m laughing more about the “blindfold”
How many shades of pokemon are involved i wonder.
I guess this also explains why mcDonalds had hello kitty for females while running a pokemon promotion for males, that’s actually so surprising.
Funny how Mario brings in more money for Manga/Comics than both Batman and Spiderman combined.
Yeah, this data is beautiful but maybe not accurate