08.22.08
The Anime Preference Survey 2008 version
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! =)
Anonymous said,
August 22, 2008 at 11:59 pm
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)
Yumeka said,
August 23, 2008 at 9:02 am
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 =)
SailorCardKnight said,
August 23, 2008 at 10:32 pm
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.
Yumeka said,
August 24, 2008 at 8:03 am
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.”
Anomalous said,
August 25, 2008 at 12:58 pm
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.
Yumeka said,
August 25, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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?
Anomalous said,
August 26, 2008 at 8:18 am
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. :)
Yumeka said,
August 26, 2008 at 8:46 am
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)