The Webtoon mobile comic publishing platform released a rankings chart detailing its top 30 comics viewed in 2019. Sitting at the top of the Most Viewed chart is Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe, with the romance title compiling 299 million views.
According to Comics Beat, Webtoon "had more than 100,000,000,000 views annually, averaging more than 60 million monthly active users, and more than 15 million daily readers."
Lore Olympus is a modern take on the Persephone story and currently sits with a 9.79 star rating on the site, with new episodes added every Sunday. Filling out the rest of the Top 5 are unOrdinary with 241 million views; True Beauty with 234 million views; My Giant Nerd Boyfriend with 158 million views; and Let's Play with 145 million views.
Below you can find Webtoon's copy for its Best 30 viewed comics of 2019:
Powerhouse digital publisher WEBTOON continue to build one of the strongest comic readerships in the industry on their free service. Below is a list of the Best 30 Series on the platform with a combined 2.4 billion views of the Best 30 with the top series averaging more than 1 million readers per week (episodes are weekly compared to print comics which publish monthly). WEBTOON has a richly diverse roster of content which shows in their Best 30 — twelve are Romance/Drama, seven are comedy/slice of life, six are action/thriller/horror, and five are fantasy. For more information please visit WEBTOON.com
Since its debut in the United States in 2014, Webtoon has partnered with Legendary, Top Cow/Image Comics and Lucasfilm in providing content for its service. It will soon also partner with Crunchyroll for the development and production of new animated content and shows based on the latter's properties. Webtoons and the Jim Henson Company are teaming up to create an animated series based on Rachel Smythe’s Lore Olympus.