Interpreting Jugdral Popularity Data

So, over at the FE According to Japan tumblr there's a new dataset derived from Pixiv to determine who and what is popular, and it's fascinating.

I could go on all night about the deep meaning of the Gen 2 stats (I knew Lana, Julia and Tinny were popular, but good god), but let's look at Gen 1 first. Now, I've seen lots (OK, basically ALL) of this art myself, so many of these trends don't really surprise me, but a few things did stand out as noteworthy once all the stats are spread out in from of me.

Disclaimer: Pixiv is not the end-all be all of fandom, inaccurate tags skew the data to some extent, etc. I know all of my favorite characters have art filed under "Seisen no Keifu" or simply "Fire Emblem," not to mention some "name combination" shipper's tag in place of their actual names. So there's that.  But that probably goes for all the characters, or at least enough that the trends are accurate even if the numbers aren't. 

FE4, Gen 1, Pixiv Popularity

( In which I tl;dr over the stats Ammie collected )

Next time, we venture into the minefield of Gen 2.  Bring your raincoat, as it'll be raining moeblobs.