This counts character mentions in YouTube live chat across 33 episodes of One Punch Man. Each mention is a reaction, timestamped against the moment that caused it.
Saitama takes 35% of 56,874 mentions
Saitama has 20,043 mentions, about three times the next name.
- 15 tracked characters across 33 of 36 episodes. S1E08, S2E04 and S2E08 had no usable chat replay.
- Garou follows with 6,858, then King with 5,690 and Metal Bat with 5,426.
He loses 9 of 33 episodes, and 8 of them in a row
Chat names whoever is on screen taking damage.
- Season 3 opens with eight straight losses, S3E01 to S3E08.
- Garou takes three of them, Metal Bat three, Fubuki and King one each.
- The other loss is S2E01, to King, 911 to 485.
In S3E04, Metal Bat outdraws him 930 to 321
Metal Bat spends the episode fighting while Saitama is elsewhere.
- The widest margin in the data, nearly three to one.
- Saitama's count recovers the moment he is back in a fight.
- The chart has every episode, one point per minute of chat.
A mention is someone typing a name
A complaint about Metal Bat's fight still counts as a Metal Bat mention.
- Aliases count: "caped baldy" is Saitama, "king engine" is King.
- A match needs a fuzzy score of 80 or more.
Season 3 is where the rest of the cast peaks
Season 3 holds 28,759 of the 56,874 mentions, just over half.
- Metal Bat gets 87% of his total in Season 3, Fubuki 81% and Garou 62%.
- Saitama stays between 28% and 38% of his total in every season, the most even split of the 15.
- Speed-o'-Sound Sonic peaks in Season 2 with 77%, and Mumen Rider in Season 1 with 74%.