by ONEUMA
After a live performance with his high school band, a teenage drummer named Shun is suddenly transported to another world. That world is Beatland, where strength is determined by rhythm. In a place where only those who can control sound are able to fight, Shun has yet to gain confidence in his own drumming. Even so, as he meets new companions and survives repeated monster attacks, he gradually begins to discover his own rhythm through battle. This is the story of a boy burdened with doubt, who faces music head-on and grows into a true drummer.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 18:48 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 18:48 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
2%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Action (1%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#11870 of 12,382 · 11820 below RS #50
By genre
beats 2% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 4% of similar stories
Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 150+ chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
