New data has revealed the most pirated TV series of 2024, as anime all streamed by the popular streaming service Crunchyroll — including the likes of Solo Leveling, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Dandadan and more — dominate the list.
Via Plagiairism Today, Variety reported on data analytics company MUSO’s new data drop on 2024’s top 10 most pirated TV series, which were heavily dominated by Japanese anime titles. Crunchyroll exclusively licensed all these anime titles except for Dandadan Season 1, which it streamed alongside Netflix. The unfortunate honor of most pirated TV series went to That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Tensura) Season 3, followed by My Hero Academia Season 7 and Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2. Readers can check out the top 10 most pirated TV series below.
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2024’s Top 10 Pirated TV Shows by Demand
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slimeย Season 3 (Spring)
- My Hero Academiaย Season 7 (Spring)
- Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnationย Season 2 (Spring 2024 — first cour aired in 2023)
- House of the Dragonย Season 2
- Dandadanย Season 1 (Fall)
- Tsukimichi: Moonlight Fantasyย Season 2 (Winter/January 2024)
- The Boysย Season 4
- Solo Levelingย Season 1 (Winter)
- Tower of Godย Season 2 (Summer)
- Blue Lockย Season 2 (Fall)
Per its website, MUSO ranks the most pirated shows using its Demand metric, incorporating illegal streaming, downloads, public and private torrents, and stream rippers. While My Hero Academia is hardly a surprise, ironically considered the “turning point” in legal anime streaming by Toho CEO Hiroyasu Matsuoka due to its popularity (Toho produces the series under its Toho Animation banner), series like Solo Leveling and Blue Lock being further down may come as a shock.
The timing of the series’ release may be a factor in the rankings; many premiered in the early Winter and Spring seasons, giving them an eight to 12-month window to pick up traction. The higher-ranked titles largely comprised two-cour anime; Solo Leveling, Blue Lock and Dandadan were the only one-cour anime. Nevertheless, Mushoku Tensei had a previous cour airing fairly recently before its 2024 entry, with its first part running from July to September 2023. Differences in promotion may also be a factor, with Solo Leveling particularly being pushed as a Crunchyroll title. It has the most accessibility to a global audience, dubbed in 12 languages and subbed in 18; its second season, premiering recently in January 2025, also has 12 dubbed languages, above Tsukimichi Season 2 (five languages), My Hero Academia (seven), Tensura (eight) and Tower of God (10). Blue Lock, Tower of God and Solo Leveling, all further down the list, lead the way with the most subtitle support, with 16, 17 and 18 languages, respectively.
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Three of Solo Leveling‘s dubbed languages include those spoken in India, where Crunchyroll has been particularly bullish about expanding. Crunchyroll CEO Rahul Purini said last year that it plans to work with Japanese creators to adapt Indian stories and will produce merchandise for that audience. Furthermore, Crunchyroll revealed last May that its watch time per member there had doubled over the previous six months. Notably, a Mega Fan subscription in India currently costs the equivalent of $1.14 a month (99 rupees), compared to $11.99 in the United States.
This may be notable since MUSO’s 2023 report revealed that India was the fifth-largest region for TV piracy in the world, with all the regions above it, i.e. the U.S., Russia, UK and Canada, supported by all the above anime through subtitles. It’s worth noting that Mushoku Tensei and Tower of God are the only titles to stream in Russian in both subbed and dubbed. Given that Crunchyroll supports all these regions where piracy is most prevalent through subs, an interesting correlation is that in the list, the bottom three pirated titles and Dandadan are the only titles subbed or dubbed for languages spoken in India.
Source: Variety via Plagiarism Today
