Title: |
General Anime Preference Survey '07 |
Description: |
Take this survey to help me learn more about the anime
preferences of AnimeYume.com's visitors ^^ You
don't have to answer all the questions in order to finish the survey, but try
and be honest and answer as many as you can. Thanks! |
Date Activated Results Posted |
5/1/2007 5/23/2007 |
Total Participants: |
224 |
Question: |
1. What's the most frequent method you use to watch anime? |
Watch it on TV |
17.9%
|
Download and watch fansubs |
42%
|
Watch it on YouTube |
24.6%
|
Buy and watch
DVDs |
8.5%
|
Borrow from
friends |
0.9%
|
I read more manga than watch anime |
6.3%
|
Question: |
2. Out of the following, which is your favorite series
that's currently airing on English TV? |
Bleach |
19.6%
|
Naruto |
16.4%
|
Inuyasha |
13.7%
|
|
6.8%
|
Full Metal
Alchemist |
16.4%
|
Zatch
Bell |
0.5%
|
Mar |
1.4%
|
Prince of
Tennis |
2.7%
|
Pokemon |
4.1%
|
One Piece |
2.3%
|
Trinity Blood |
2.3%
|
Ghost in the
Shell |
4.6%
|
Digimon |
4.1%
|
Blood+ |
5%
|
Question: |
3. Out of the following, which is your favorite recent or
current fansubbed series? |
Bleach |
19.4%
|
Naruto
Shippuuden |
23.2%
|
Nana |
2.4%
|
Kanon
(2006) |
6.6%
|
Death Note |
11.4%
|
Code Geass |
6.6%
|
Sumomomo
Momomo |
0%
|
D-Gray Man |
1.9%
|
One Piece |
7.6%
|
Nodame
Cantabile |
2.8%
|
Manabi
Straight |
0.5%
|
Hayate
the Combat |
0.9%
|
Darker Than
Black |
3.8%
|
Lucky Star |
4.3%
|
Romeo x Juliet |
4.3%
|
Clamore |
2.4%
|
Mahou
Sensei Negima! |
1.9%
|
Question: |
4. Out of the following, which is your favorite shounen series? |
Bleach |
23.4%
|
Naruto |
16.5%
|
Inuyasha |
18.3%
|
One Piece |
7.3%
|
Konjiki
no Gash |
1.4%
|
D-Gray Man |
4.6%
|
Dragon Ball Z |
2.3%
|
Yu-Gi-Oh! |
1.8%
|
Rurouni
Kenshin |
15.1%
|
Shaman King |
1.8%
|
Yu Yu Hakusho |
7.3%
|
Question: |
5. Out of the following, which is your favorite mecha series? |
Evangelion |
21.4%
|
Gundam
Wing |
11.9%
|
Gundam
Seed |
17.6%
|
|
19.5%
|
RahXephon |
2.4%
|
Code Geass |
4.3%
|
Full Metal
Panic! |
22.9%
|
Question: |
6. Out of the following, which is your favorite shoujo series? |
Fruits Basket |
34%
|
Oh My Goddess! |
7.1%
|
Sailor Moon |
14.2%
|
Nana |
1.9%
|
|
3.3%
|
Fushigi
Yuugi |
8.5%
|
Revolutionary Girl Utena |
4.2%
|
|
23.6%
|
|
3.3%
|
Question: |
7. Out of the following, which is your favorite "kiddie" series? |
Pokemon |
26.6%
|
Digimon |
17.3%
|
Sailor Moon |
19.2%
|
Dragon Ball Z |
16.4%
|
Yu-Gi-Oh! |
7%
|
Beyblade |
5.6%
|
Mon Colle Knights |
0.9%
|
|
7%
|
Question: |
8. Out of the following, which is your favorite
"old" series? |
Evangelion |
6.8%
|
Gundam
Wing |
5%
|
Cardcaptor
Sakura |
19%
|
Sailor Moon |
11.3%
|
Magic Knight Rayearth |
0.9%
|
Slayers |
3.2%
|
Revolutionary Girl Utena |
2.3%
|
Cowboy Bebop |
10.9%
|
Escaflowne |
4.1%
|
Excel Saga |
3.2%
|
Fushigi
Yuugi |
1.8%
|
Tenchi
Muyo! |
5%
|
Ranma
1/2 |
9.5%
|
Rurouni
Kenshin |
17.2%
|
Question: |
9. Out of the following, which is your favorite original
anime motion picture? |
Akira |
7.5%
|
Princess Mononoke |
20.8%
|
Nausicaa |
7.5%
|
My Neighbor Totoro |
7.1%
|
Steam Boy |
0.5%
|
Grave of the Fireflies |
5.2%
|
Appleseed |
2.8%
|
Spirited Away |
30.2%
|
Howl's Moving
Castle |
11.8%
|
Blood: the Last
Vampire |
6.6%
|
Question: |
10. Do you like to watch your anime dubbed, subbed, or
raw? |
Dubbed or subbed. It
doesn't matter much to me. |
30.8%
|
I'll only watch the
dub if I think it's good, or if I can't get the sub version. |
13.4%
|
I like dubs (I don't
like to read subtitles!) |
8.5%
|
I like subs (nothing
like the original version!) |
43.3%
|
I don't need subs or
dubs. I speak Japanese fluently! |
1.8%
|
I'm not fluent in
Japanese but I like to watch raws anyway. |
2.2%
|
Question: |
11. What are the main factors you look for in a good anime
series? |
Top-notch
animation |
11.1%
|
Interesting and
unique story/plot |
16.1%
|
Well-developed,
likable characters |
15.6%
|
If based on a manga, stays faithful to the manga |
7.2%
|
Has a lot of complex
fantasy elements |
7.5%
|
Has a lot of action
and violence (no "cutesy" stuff) |
7%
|
Has a lot of romance,
angst, and relationship conflicts |
8.1%
|
Has a satisfying
ending |
11.4%
|
Has a lot of humor
(can't get too sad or serious) |
8.9%
|
Has a lot of fangirl fan service, like hot guys |
3.6%
|
Has a lot of fanboy fan service, like cute, moe
girls |
3.4%
|
Question: |
12. What's your preferred genre of anime? |
Shounen |
12.6%
|
Shoujo |
6.8%
|
Mecha |
3.6%
|
Comedy |
2.7%
|
Drama |
0.9%
|
Sci-fi |
3.2%
|
Fantasy/Supernatural |
7.2%
|
Moe |
0%
|
"Dark" and
serious |
3.2%
|
Slice of Life |
2.3%
|
Monster/Tournament |
0.5%
|
"Unique"
series' that don't really fit into any of these categories |
4.5%
|
As long as I like the
storyline and characters, I don't care what the genre is |
52.7%
|
Question: |
13. What was the first anime you ever watched? |
Sailor Moon |
31.4%
|
Pokemon |
22.9%
|
One of the Dragon
Ball series' |
8.1%
|
Yu-Gi-Oh! |
0.4%
|
One of the Gundam series' |
0.4%
|
Digimon |
3.1%
|
Cowboy Bebop |
0%
|
Ranma
1/2 |
2.2%
|
Inuyasha |
6.3%
|
One of the Tenchi series' |
1.3%
|
One of the
Transformers series' |
0.4%
|
Evangelion |
0.4%
|
Cardcaptor
Sakura |
3.1%
|
Naruto |
0.9%
|
Bleach |
0%
|
Full Metal
Alchemist |
0.4%
|
One of Studio Ghibli's movies |
2.2%
|
None of the
above |
16.1%
|
Question: |
14. Which of the following series' do you think has the
best dub? |
Full Metal
Alchemist |
23.6%
|
Naruto |
7.9%
|
Inuyasha |
15.3%
|
Bleach |
8.8%
|
Fruits Basket |
2.8%
|
Evangelion |
2.8%
|
Cowboy Bebop |
7.9%
|
Wolf's Rain |
4.6%
|
I'm not familiar with
dubs. |
26.4%
|
Question: |
15. I like to buy anime... |
DVDs |
14.5%
|
Posters |
10.1%
|
Figures |
6.7%
|
Pencil boards |
2.9%
|
Artbooks |
7.4%
|
Manga
volumes |
15.8%
|
T-shirts or other
apparel |
6.6%
|
Trading cards |
4.6%
|
Video games |
10.6%
|
Plushies |
6.8%
|
Costumes and
accessories |
3.7%
|
I just watch anime on
TV or fansubs (other stuff is too expensive!) |
10.3%
|
Question: |
16. Besides watching anime and/or reading manga, how else do you express your love for anime? |
Draw fan art |
16%
|
Write fanfics |
10.2%
|
Help with fansub translations and/or distribution |
2.4%
|
Work on an anime web
site or blog |
7.5%
|
Go to anime
conventions (and perhaps cosplay) |
12.8%
|
Play anime-based or
other Japanese video games |
19.8%
|
Collect/Play anime
trading card games |
8.3%
|
Work for an anime/manga retailer or company |
1%
|
Study Japanese
language/culture |
22%
|
Question: |
17. About how many series' are you currently familiar
with? (meaning you've seen all or a lot of the episodes/read a lot of the manga.) |
Between 1 and 3 |
2.7%
|
Between 4 and 7 |
8.6%
|
Between 8 and
13 |
11.7%
|
Between 14 and
20 |
16.2%
|
More than 20 |
19.4%
|
More than 50 |
41.4%
|
Question: |
18. In addition to anime and manga,
I'm also interested in... |
Video games |
15.7%
|
Learning
Japanese |
15.3%
|
Fantasy books and/or
movies |
13.6%
|
Drawing |
11.4%
|
Other animation and
cartoons |
11.5%
|
Computers and/or web
site design |
11.5%
|
Japanese TV shows
and/or movies |
8.9%
|
J-pop/J-rock bands
and singers |
12.1%
|
Question: |
19. When you're talking with people who don't like or are
ignorant about anime, how do you act? |
Keep quiet so as not
to make the fact that you like anime obvious |
9.9%
|
If you're pressured,
pretend you don't like anime |
0.9%
|
If you're pressured,
make it known that you do like anime and why |
16.6%
|
Passionately proclaim
your interest in anime even if you're made fun of |
29.1%
|
Try to avoid the
topic, but if it comes up, you won't lie aboout
your interest and will just be honest |
43.5%
|
Question: |
20. And lastly, out of the following series', which is
your favorite? |
Death Note |
5%
|
Bleach |
8.3%
|
Naruto |
12.4%
|
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya |
10.6%
|
Full Metal
Alchemist |
9.6%
|
Gundam
Seed |
3.2%
|
Fruits Basket |
3.2%
|
Evangelion |
2.8%
|
Hellsing |
0.5%
|
|
4.1%
|
Inuyasha |
12.4%
|
Pokemon |
1.8%
|
One Piece |
4.1%
|
Sailor Moon |
2.3%
|
Rozen
Maiden |
0.9%
|
D-Gray Man |
0.5%
|
Cardcaptor
Sakura |
4.1%
|
Full Metal
Panic! |
1.8%
|
|
1.8%
|
Tsubasa
Chronicles |
1.8%
|
Azumanga
Daioh |
3.2%
|
Nana |
0.9%
|
Cowboy Bebop |
2.3%
|
Digimon |
1.4%
|
Yu-Gi-Oh! |
0.9%
|