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General Anime Preference Survey '07

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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%

Eureka

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 Butler 

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 Bell (Zatch Bell) 

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%

Eureka

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%

Paradise Kiss 

3.3%

Fushigi Yuugi 

8.5%

Revolutionary Girl Utena 

4.2%

Ouran High School Host Club 

23.6%

Tokyo Mew Mew 

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%

Tokyo Mew Mew 

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%

Ouran High School Host Club 

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%

Eureka

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%