Highlights for
Ru's 2nd Semi-Annual Rec.arts.anime.*
"What are we like?" Fan Survey
February 1998

Ok, so here are some comparisons of my "What are we like?" questionaire I just did with the one I did in August 1997. Many of the response percentages didn't change too much. These are the ones that did change significantly.

• Number of returns: 127 to 146. Up 15% which isn't much considering that I held this on during the school term. On the otherhand, the number of repeat participants isn't that high either, about 20 to 30. Either the folks that participated last time didn't care this time, changed accounts, or went away. Got to add a question about this next time.
• The number of folks who have been anime fans for less than about 5 years didn't change much, even category by category. The main difference is in the number of long time fans, where the "6 to 10" and "more than 10" categories went up from about 20% to 30%. Some but not all of that can be attributed to the time span of the two questionaires, IF there have been no new fans.
• The number of other anime fans that responders had frequent face to face contact with was significantly different in the "6 to 10" category, with a little more that 10% or 20 more people filling that response in.
• The percentage of aquaintances considered as fans shifted somewhat away from the 0% response, mostly to the "1 to 10%" response, where the 0% dropped from 30% to 18% of responders.
• There was a shift in how many folks understand Japanese. A few more folks knew "enough to survive alone in Japan", and a significant number more "only know a few words".
• The number of people that generally watch translated anime mostly went up about 10%, most of this coming out of the "no preference" and "mostly untranslated" categories.
• There were a significantly more people that prefered subs, altogether 13% more. The same is true for purchased anime.
• The percentage of folks that own some Japanese domestic versions of anime went up 10%, with those who own nothing but western releases dropping that amount.
• The number of folks willing to get DVD "even if DVD is not recordable" increased by 10%. Similarly, the number of folks that concerned with the region locks dropped 10%.
• The related products that changed the most were toys and books, both up 10%.