The full-color manga 'Ame Ame Fure Fure Uso Yande' is on sale for half price for a limited time during the rainy season! Here are the access analytics results for GIGAZINE for May 2026.

Announcement #1. With the rainy season officially starting on June 4th, we are holding a half-price sale on ' Ame Ame Fure Fure Uso Yande, ' a full-color comic depicting a two-week encounter between a girl who loves rain and a rain-hating man as they search for a sunny day without rain. The sale will run until the end of the rainy season, so please take this opportunity to read it.

Amazon.co.jp: Ame Ame Fure Fure Uso Yande (GIGAZINE) eBook: Torataro, Yumeki, GIGAZINE: Kindle Store

You can also check out the synopsis of 'Ame Ame Fure Fure Uso Yande' and behind-the-scenes stories about the illustration production in the following article.

With the rainy season upon us, we've started a half-price sale on 'Ame Ame Fure Fure Uso Yande,' a manga depicting two weeks of continuous rain - GIGAZINE

Announcement #2: The illustration and manga creation workshop at Ibaraki Elementary School's after-school children's classroom will continue in September and beyond! As before, no materials are needed and participation is free. We've also seen an increase in inquiries from schools other than Ibaraki Elementary School, and we're responding to them in order. You can find out more about the workshop content by reading the article below.

A report on the 6-session 'Doodling Illustrations Together' creative arts workshop held at Ibaraki Elementary School's after-school children's class - GIGAZINE

Announcement number 3. On Saturday, September 12th, the Illustration and Manga Creation Club will be setting up a booth for the first time at the ' Hometown Festival ' held at Ibaraki Elementary School. Yay! We'll also be reviewing various hardware items from the perspective of 'What kind of equipment should I prepare if I want to set up a booth at a local event?', so please look forward to it!

So, here is some data that may be helpful when placing an ad on GIGAZINE .

◆May 2026
Number of access requests: 171.38 million
Page views: 51.02 million (increase of 2.62 million)
Unique users: 17.07 million (down 1.76 million)
Data transfer: 13.937TB
*These are measurement results from Cloudflare.

Of the total data transfer volume, multimedia files such as images accounted for approximately 12.049 TB, while HTML, RSS, and other similar files accounted for approximately 1.888 TB.

Additionally, the number of articles created in May 2026 was 649.

Next, here are the top 10 most popular articles in May 2026. This is based on analysis results from Google Analytics.

1st Place: The '100 Greatest Novels of All Time' as chosen by writers and critics is announced.

2nd place: Telling an AI model 'You are a skilled programmer' can actually decrease its programming ability.

3rd Place: How to use 'Irodori-TTS,' a local AI that lets you make your favorite lines spoken in your favorite voice. It's Japanese-focused and runs locally, so you can generate unlimited text.

4th Place: Research results are presented that overturn the established theory that ancient insects were huge because of high oxygen levels.

5th Place: The atomic-level reason why gold never rusts is revealed.

6th place: Fossil that had been on display in a museum for decades was found to belong to a newly discovered species of giant carnivore.

7th Place: ChatGPT 5.5 Pro performs doctoral-level mathematical research in one hour, mathematicians point out that 'the minimum standard for human research is changing.'

8th Place: Anthropic's research reveals the conditions under which AI will use flattering phrases such as 'That feeling is absolutely correct.'

9th Place: What is the 'Noroboto' attack, where a contract looks normal to humans, but a 'fake font' makes AI read a different document?

10th Place: Popular YouTubers devise a monetization method to counter the frequent 'monetization suspension measures due to misidentification of mass-produced content' on YouTube.

So, next, to explore the trends among GIGAZINE readers, let's look at the usage patterns by browser, which are as follows:

1st place: Chrome : 63.80% (up 0.77 percentage points)
2nd place: Safari : 17.01% (1.40%pt decrease)
3rd place: Edge : 6.69% (0.26%pt decrease)
4th place: Firefox : 5.25% (up 0.25 percentage points)
5th place: Safari (in-app) : 4.36% (up 0.82 percentage points)
6th place: Android Webview : 1.88% (0.15%pt decrease)
7th place: Opera : 0.48% (0.02%pt decrease)
8th place: Samsung Internet : 0.23% (up 0.01 percentage points)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.14% (no change)
10th place: (not set) : 0.08% (0.02% pt decrease)

Next, here are the top 10 websites that link to GIGAZINE and generate the most traffic to GIGAZINE. Search engines have been excluded.

1st place: X (1st place last month)
2nd place: Hatena Bookmark (3rd place last month)
3rd place: Google News (2nd place last month)
4th place: SmartNews (4th place last month)
5th place: Facebook (5th place last month)
6th place: DuckDuckGo (6th place last month)
7th place: Bluesky (7th place last month)
8th place: MSN (8th place last month)
9th place: togetter (9th place last month)
10th place: Inoreader (10th place last month)

Next, here are the top 10 phrases that led people to GIGAZINE through search:

1st place: AI
2nd place: 9
3rd place: youtube
4th place: yt-dlp
5th place: Rubber
6th place: claude
7th place: Space
8th place: Image generation
9th place: Self-host
10th place: LLM

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