I conducted the 2007 Anime Preference survey a little over a year ago with very interesting results. If you would like to take the new 2008 version, click here. It’s basically a quick survey recording some general preferences, interests, and tastes among anime fans. Like the 2007 version, it’s 20 quick questions that should only take a few minutes (you’re also not required to answer all of them). The statistics of these surveys usually prove very interesting so if you could take a few minutes for the survey, I’d really appreciate it! ^^
Also, if you want to see the results from the 2007 version, click here. Depending on how quickly I get responses to the 2008 survey, I should have the results posted sometime within the next 2 to 3 weeks so check back! =)
Chobits isn’t a shoujou series…it was serialized in the seinen magazine Young Magazine, by Kodansha. (along with other manga such as Ghost in the Shell, Younger Sister is in Puberty, and Minami-Ke)
Well it does have a lot of shoujo elements so that’s why I put it in that section. But since it really isn’t shoujo, I guess I’ll put it in another category next time =)
I took the survey. I’m curious to see what kind of results you’ll get this time.
And as for the “favorite seiyuu” question I was torn between 3 people, I really wanted to vote for all 3 of them! (Rie Kugimiya, Paku Romi, Aya Hirano) It was even worse for the “favorite music group/singer”, there was 4 people I wanted to vote for! (Asian Kung-fuu generation, High and Mighty Color, Kotoko, Anna Tsuchiya) But in the end I made a choice on both. Then the most difficult was “favorite series”, but as for that I decided just to vote for the same series I did last time.
I’m surprised you didn’t have a part for “fav english dub actor/actress” though, i’m not big into dubs myselef, but I know some people who are.
I was actually originally planning to have “favorite English dub voice actor/actress” as one of the questions, but since I haven’t been as much into dubs as I used to be, I found myself unable to come up with very many of them as choices XD I didn’t want to exclude any popular ones that I should’ve added, so in the end I decided to come up with a different question instead (the “favorite Japanese singer/band.”
Yeah, you’ve got a couple of issues with your genre classification, not just Chobits. Oh My Goddess! isn’t a shoujo series either, not even close; it’s seinen. It follows the classic shounen/seinen romance formula to a t, after all. Tsubasa Chronicle was searalized in a shounen magazine, too. And Paradise Kiss and Nana are jousei (although that’s pretty close to shoujo).
Sorry if I sound rude, I just hate to see series classified as shoujo when they’re clearly not.
Thanks, I’ll definitely fix the genre classifications next time. I actually found myself having a hard time thinking of well-known shoujo series to use, which is probably why I went off using series that had romance and other shoujo elements but aren’t shoujo. Could you suggest any popular shoujo series to use next time?
Let’s see, popular shoujo…
– Cardcaptor Sakura; I’m a bit surprised you didn’t include it since you seem to be a fan
– Lovely Complex has been pretty big recently, although if you’re looking for things with proven staying power it’s still new
– Full Moon wo Sagashite is fairly popular and very well-regarded
– Kyo Kara Maoh! seemed pretty popular last time I checked
– Gakuen Alice is one that’s not mainstream but popular with anime fans
– Shugo Chara! is still airing, but it’s been getting a lot of attention
– Kare Kano is quite well-known and gets great reviews
Good call on including Utena, by the way! It was nice to see a variety of years represented in the survey, since most only cover recent series. :)
Thanks for the shoujo suggestions! I’ll use them next time (and I can’t believe Cardcaptor Sakura totally slipped my mind on that questions! XD)