Der Junge und der Reiher

Quality:

The Boy and the Heron - 2023 anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki. This film is the 1116^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films. Article “Der Junge und der Reiher” in German Wikipedia has 58.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 58 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 1116^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9523^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Der Junge und der Reiher”, its content was written by 44 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 939 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Boy and the Heron is on the 1116^th place in global ranking of films on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 76 times in German Wikipedia and cited 3861 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #122 in January 2024
• Global: #52 in July 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #88 in January 2024
• Global: #85 in December 2023

There are 35 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 蒼鷺與少年		93.3333
2	Italian (it) Il ragazzo e l'airone		89.1479
3	English (en) The Boy and the Heron		87.1469
4	Russian (ru) Мальчик и птица		82.0481
5	Japanese (ja) 君たちはどう生きるか (映画)		74.0956
6	German (de) Der Junge und der Reiher		58.6197
7	Spanish (es) Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka (película de 2023)		54.7496
8	French (fr) Le Garçon et le Héron		51.7162
9	Portuguese (pt) Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka		51.388
10	Swedish (sv) Pojken och hägern		48.5481

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Boy and the Heron		10 077 961
2	Japanese (ja) 君たちはどう生きるか (映画)		3 184 813
3	Russian (ru) Мальчик и птица		1 216 297
4	Chinese (zh) 蒼鷺與少年		966 327
5	Italian (it) Il ragazzo e l'airone		677 628
6	French (fr) Le Garçon et le Héron		676 017
7	Spanish (es) Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka (película de 2023)		585 471
8	German (de) Der Junge und der Reiher		533 111
9	Persian (fa) پسرک و مرغ ماهی‌خوار		120 400
10	Portuguese (pt) Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka		101 709

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Boy and the Heron		55 947
2	Japanese (ja) 君たちはどう生きるか (映画)		13 092
3	Russian (ru) Мальчик и птица		7 275
4	Chinese (zh) 蒼鷺與少年		6 851
5	Italian (it) Il ragazzo e l'airone		5 151
6	French (fr) Le Garçon et le Héron		3 190
7	German (de) Der Junge und der Reiher		3 016
8	Spanish (es) Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka (película de 2023)		2 589
9	Persian (fa) پسرک و مرغ ماهی‌خوار		1 094
10	Korean (ko) 그대들은 어떻게 살 것인가		965

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Boy and the Heron		281
2	Japanese (ja) 君たちはどう生きるか (映画)		136
3	Italian (it) Il ragazzo e l'airone		64
4	Chinese (zh) 蒼鷺與少年		63
5	Spanish (es) Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka (película de 2023)		56
6	French (fr) Le Garçon et le Héron		52
7	Russian (ru) Мальчик и птица		47
8	German (de) Der Junge und der Reiher		44
9	Persian (fa) پسرک و مرغ ماهی‌خوار		19
10	Portuguese (pt) Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka		19

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Boy and the Heron		3
2	Japanese (ja) 君たちはどう生きるか (映画)		3
3	Arabic (ar) كيف تعيش؟ (فلم)		2
4	Catalan (ca) El noi i l'ocell		1
5	Basque (eu) Kimi-tachi wa dō ikiru ka		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Thiếu niên và chim diệc		1
8	Belarusian (be) Хлопчык і чапля		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Момчето и чаплата		0
10	German (de) Der Junge und der Reiher		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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