Thread:Masternachos/@comment-12360859-20151207024945/@comment-24177998-20151207232722

It's not very active at this point in time... Not that it's ever really been a hopping joint as far as I know.

I don't really know of any way to check how many people are, like, looking around at stuff, but based on who else is editing and the lack of any chat, it's been pretty much just me for the past few months. The fact the series only had 27 episodes, the last of which aired four years ago, along with it not being released in the US in any form (I think the only exports have been subtitled Blu-ray in Australia and, somewhat oddly, a Finnish translation of the manga), makes Nichijou an inherently low-volume wiki. Plus, Nichijou's sense of humor is... different. To paraphrase an American anime reviewer, The series is great, but it's definitely not for everybody.

Even worse is the fact the anime was evidently a huge dud in Japan, losing a lot of money; apparently it was to Kyoto Animation financially what Cars 2 was to Pixar critically: a product showing that a highly regarded animation studio actually could release a dud.

That's probably why so many people join, contribute, then just kind of... drift away. With nothing new, Nichijou isn't able to keep itself in people's focus. The manga is finally being translated into English, with Volume 1 coming out in March, so I expect to see an uptick after that, but... Azumanga Daioh is definitely bigger than Nichijou, and its wiki is also combined with that for Yotsuba&!, which is at least noteworthy in that the main character has apparently been adopted as a mascot for 4chan; and it hasn't had a single edit in over a week. I mean, I would be VERY surprised if the manga section of my local bookstore has even a single copy of the translated Nichijou when it comes out.