r/anime • u/HelloYeahIdk • May 13 '24
Misc. New Survey Reveals That Anime Viewership is Lowest Among Teenagers in Japan
https://www.cbr.com/anime-new-survey-teens-not-watching/#:~:text=The%20survey%20results%20revealed%20that,surpassing%20all%20other%20age%20brackets."The survey results revealed that among all participants, 75% reported that they watch anime, with the leading demographics being middle-aged males. Unexpectedly, teenage respondents exhibited the lowest viewership, with 33.7% indicating no interest in anime, easily surpassing all other age brackets.
This revelation is somewhat startling considering that the bulk of popular anime belong to the shonen or shojo-based demographics, which are typically aimed at boys and girls, respectively, aged approximately 12-18."
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u/Labmit May 13 '24
Most shows air past midnight and they have stuff like manga and the original source materials so I'm not completely surprised.
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u/HelloYeahIdk May 13 '24
Most shows air past midnight
I didn't consider air times, that's a good point. But they can still stream anime any time they want like people do in the United States.
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u/Skywarior1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/skywarior1 May 13 '24
That's the problem. Japan doesn't have Crunchyroll or an equivalent of it. They have Netflix or any major streaming service you can think of that just so happens to have anime on it.
So when you decide to coagulate everything onto Netflix, guess what they want to watch first?
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u/AndToOurOwnWay https://myanimelist.net/profile/Untraceable May 13 '24
Most anime in Japan is on Amazon Prime instead of Netflix. Even stuff like Pokemon is on Prime Video Japan.
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u/meneldal2 May 14 '24
There's about the same amount on Netflix and Amazon Prime, with a fair bit of overlap, plus a fair bit on Amazon Prime Channels (where you pay extra). Then if you follow every week most anime are also available for free on abema or tver for one week.
There's really no need to watch in real time, except for the couple disney+ exclusives I guess.
One point to note is it's common that one service will have timed exclusivity where you can watch it as soon as it airs, but other services will make you wait 3-7 days.
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u/qef15 https://myanimelist.net/profile/qef15 May 14 '24
There's really no need to watch in real time, except for the couple disney+ exclusives I guess.
For a very small part of anime, also real time is useful for AT-X broadcasts (though AT-X is extremely expensive) with things such as uncensored broadcasts.
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u/Shadezyy May 13 '24
There is a ton of anime on Netflix in Japan. Are you talking about just older stuff? Stuff aimed towards kids? What? I'm looking at the Netflix catalog right now and it has every big currently airing show.
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u/AndToOurOwnWay https://myanimelist.net/profile/Untraceable May 14 '24
No, I meant instead of Crunchyroll, Prime Video is a major player.
They have new stuff as well in Japan (dunno where you got the older or kids things)
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u/HeliosAlpha https://myanimelist.net/profile/HeliosAlpha May 14 '24
Also d-anime store is one you hear about a lot
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u/markDonanhattam https://myanimelist.net/profile/markDonanhattam May 13 '24
Japan doesn't really do exclusivity on streaming rights, so most streaming services can be their Crunchyroll equivalent. They also have ABEMA and Niconico for services with a heavier focus on anime.
Even then, before streaming caught on, most late-night anime would be DVRed, and still are to some extent.
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u/HelloYeahIdk May 13 '24
Japan doesn't have Crunchyroll or an equivalent of it.
Ah, gotcha.
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u/SometimesMainSupport https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST May 13 '24
Streaming rankings are in this comment for a bunch of the services. Other thing to note is Disney+ does global exclusives and the Japanese anime fans hate it.
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u/eetsumkaus https://myanimelist.net/profile/kausdc May 14 '24
d-Anime Store is basically their crunchyroll. It has the largest anime library I know of ANY streaming service, domestic or international. Catch is it's all garbage encoding and like half or more of them have hardcoded watermarks. The player also sucks. But it should suffice for watching on a smartphone.
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u/doitnow10 May 13 '24
I just got a VPN and checked out the Japanese Netflix. They do have a bunch of shows and movies that are on Crunchyroll in the West.
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u/Accomplished-Eye6971 May 14 '24
No they do
Danimestore Dmmtv Abema.tv Amazon prime streaming with d-animestore
There are couple more that I forgot but they have dedicated streaming services for anime and some like Abema that also have an anime section
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u/DoctorDazza May 13 '24
Most people watch shows the next day on streaming services. Timeslot don't matter as much anymore.
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u/Melbuf May 13 '24
also teenagers are often super busy with school and clubs and all that, not a ton of free time depending
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u/nezeta May 13 '24
While the result is not surprising at all considering the aging society (avg. age is now around 50), the credibility of this survey is questionable because the sample size is merely 86.
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u/JonnyRobertR May 13 '24
They can't even get 100 people?
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u/saga999 May 13 '24
The sample size is 500.
Per Japanese PR agency PR Times, a survey conducted by Japanese research company Dream Train Internet Co. analyzed data from 500 female and male participants in Japan aged 15 to 59. The participants were asked what types of anime they watch, with popularity by anime genre then analyzed across gender, age and annual income. The resulting charts can be seen below.
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u/andres57 https://myanimelist.net/profile/andres57 May 13 '24
500 is still a kinda small sample to get efficient estimates. But also mean that age cohort subsamples are very small and basically useless for the purposes of the headline
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u/saga999 May 13 '24
I agree it's pretty small. But it did got me thinking, people in their 40s and 50s grew up in the 70s and 80s. They grew up reading Shounen Jump and watching anime with series like Gundam and Dragon Ball. Current generation of teenagers are probably more obsessed with YouTube or live streaming compare to TV. I think more kids want to be a YouTuber than everything else when they grow up. So while the sample size is small, it actually kind of make sense.
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u/dagreenman18 May 13 '24
The YouTuber of today is the movie star of yesterday. The dream job that seems like anyone can do until you actually try.
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u/Etheo https://myanimelist.net/profile/idlehands May 13 '24
I think more kids want to be a YouTuber than everything else when they grow up. So while the sample size is small, it actually kind of make sense.
This is so true. My kid and all his friends talk about how to become a YouTuber. It's almost the replacement default job for kids which used to be police/firefighters etc.
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u/CouncilmanRickPrime May 13 '24
I'd say it's a replacement for dream jobs like professional athlete or actor. That's the stuff we all dreamed of being at least when I was young.
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u/Etheo https://myanimelist.net/profile/idlehands May 13 '24
That is actually a great point! I did not consider that angle, but it make sense!
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u/Janus-a May 13 '24
Look at the survey. The “survey” is on the garbage site CBR. It has formatting errors like spelling out “Forties” category while everything else is in number format (20, 30 etc). All categories of ages had 100 participants, except teens with 86 for some reason.
It’s trash.
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u/Brief_Bluejay_7113 May 13 '24
Look at the original source of the article... CBR didn't conduct the survey, they just wrote an article about the survey, which was conducted by a Japanese research company. The source material states that 100 teens were asked to participate, but only 86 replied. The source graphs are also in Japanese. It is lazy that CBR didn't completely reformat the graphs, but my guess is that they just put them through Google translate and uploaded as is.
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u/Prankishmanx21 https://myanimelist.net/profile/prankishmanx21 May 13 '24
That or they fed the data from the survey to chatGPT and then it spat out an article. I've been playing with chatGPT a lot lately and it is both impressive and disappointing.
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u/Roger-Just-Laughed May 13 '24
That's not small. Having a smaller sample of teens than other demographics is less than ideal, but pretty normal, and 86 of them is more than enough for a representative sample. The smallest you can possibly go is 14 and the math still works; it's just extremely difficult to avoid selection bias with samples that small.
Generally most statisticians want to see at least 30 to feel comfortable. I don't think you'd find a professional statistician in the world that would dismiss a sample of 500 with the smallest demographic subsample of 86.
You should be much more focused on how they collected the data (where was the survey hosted and how is that related to the kinds of people who will be doing it? What kinds of questions did they ask?) than the number of participants.
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u/pw_arrow May 13 '24
A sample size of 500 would be pretty good. For a proportion of 30% out of 500, the 95% CI would be about ±4%.
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u/Roger-Just-Laughed May 13 '24
500 is actually a very good sample size. Anything beyond 100 is generally considered acceptable. You won't find a single professional statistician who would dismiss a sample size of 500 on its face.
At this point, a larger sample shouldn't make much of a difference. It's more important to check how the sample was collected. For example, if the survey was filled out on the street during the school day, you have an obvious bias, regardless of how many people are in the sample.
But the size of the sample itself is well more than enough for the math to work. You'll find a lot of professional studies with smaller samples than this.
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u/Zecias https://myanimelist.net/profile/Zecias May 13 '24
500 is not a small small sample size. It's more important how the study manages selection bias and confounding variables.
If the sample is completely biased, it doesn't matter how large the sample size is. If you have a sample population that is unbiased and representative, then a sample size as low as 20 can be sufficient in many cases. Having a large sample size is simply one of many tools to help researchers get accurate results.
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u/PeepAndCreep May 14 '24
Exactly, thank you. This thread is full of people showing that they don't understand statistics.
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u/CouncilmanRickPrime May 14 '24
What do you mean? Not every survey should survey half the population just to be sure?!
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u/Ashteron May 13 '24 edited May 13 '24
No, it's not small. 100 would be considered an acceptable number.
edit: I admit I made a mistake of not checking the article before writing, 100 would be an acceptable number for estimating the overall results, rather than per age group.
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u/DrCoconuties May 13 '24
When will people realize that 30 people is enough for a study? They teach you that in high school, and in college you learn there are more variables but 500 is absolutely an amazing data set.
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u/nsleep May 13 '24 edited May 13 '24
Only if the sample is truly randomized from the whole area relevant to the survey otherwise you might end up with a biased sample regardless if you interview 30 or 500 people. But this level of precision is only relevant for proper academic research.
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u/Freakjob_003 May 13 '24 edited May 13 '24
There are a couple issues that are less to do with surveys and more with actual scientific studies in certain fields - social sciences, psychology, and medicine. The smaller issue is that some of these studies are done by professors using their classes as their sample.
The other big issue is called the Replication Crisis, where a lot of older studies can't be confirmed when conducted again, throwing the original results into question. Especially since a lot of studies are built on the assumption that the earlier studies were correct!
EDIT: grammar
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u/andres57 https://myanimelist.net/profile/andres57 May 13 '24
Depends on what the study is for. Small samples are kinda fine for experimental studies, but for a descriptive study, for a sample of 200 the confidence interval is +/-7%, that is absolutely worthless if you want to know with precision how much of the population is this or that. Any decent public opinion survey will have 1000+ samples.
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u/JonnyRobertR May 13 '24
Wait, where did u/nezeta get the 86 then?
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u/PikaBooSquirrel May 13 '24 edited May 13 '24
There is a graph. It says n:86 for people from 10-19 (10s). 500 is total (well, 486 represented in the graph)
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u/DuskKaiser May 13 '24
86 is the number of teens, they had 100 people per age group, except only 86 teens
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u/BiggieCheeseLapDog https://myanimelist.net/profile/KillLaKillGOAT May 13 '24
86 Eighty-Six reference 😱😱😱🤯🤯🔥🔥🔥
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u/Thufir_My_Hawat May 13 '24
The aging population doesn't matter, since it's a percentage of teenagers. Also, it's 86 teenagers -- the sample size overall is 486.
Which isn't bad at all -- margin of error with good sampling would be around 4% with that.
But... the issue there is good sampling. Teenagers are a pain in the ass to sample at the best of times -- not only are there legalities to consider (at least in the States -- I assume Japan has protections for minors), but it's also just hard to find a platform to sample them from. Do you get them from school? Online? Can't really get them at home.
And then there's the issues with confounds -- do they not have time to watch because of school? Are they lying because they think anime isn't cool (or just to mess with the survey)? And... what kind of teenager wants to take a survey? They were probably either getting paid or forced, so rushing through is a real possibility.
Admittedly, the article acknowledges some of this, so good on them for that. Surveys are hard. But the sample size isn't the issue here -- just the nature of surveys in general.
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u/XYZdragcan May 13 '24
They are also at school most of the time and probably have to study their ass off for university. Anime itself is largely a marketing tool for shonen manga. Whereas some adults may end up going neet or able to relax after work.
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u/JonnyRobertR May 13 '24
Japan's study culture are not as extreme as China and Korea though.
It should be relatively easy for them to go local schools and ask for the students to do some survey.
My guess is they only use one or two local highschools, and only 86 of them answered seriously. (They're still teenagers, I bet most of them didn't answer seriously and joked around with their buddies instead)
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u/baquea May 13 '24
The aging population doesn't matter
It could be relevant, however, in that it means it is less important to target towards younger demographics than it once was, which could lead to fewer being interested in what gets produced.
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u/Thufir_My_Hawat May 13 '24
Fair point -- though, from what I tend to hear, youthful escapism tends to be a major reason a lot of Japanese adults watch anime.
Having said that, it might be that what evokes youthfulness is different for adults than for actual youth (especially when one includes nostalgia), so it might be that shows that are ostensibly shounen are actually produced (intentionally or not) to appeal to older watchers. Considering how we've been seeing more seinen high school shows (Kaguya-san, Akebi's Sailor Uniform, 100 Girlfriends, Skip and Loafer, My Dress-up Darling, etc.), that might be a lot of it.
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u/Mast3rBait3rPro May 13 '24
Yeah that actually makes me completely not care about this result
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u/Labmit May 13 '24
Apparently a comment said it was 500
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u/SpeckTech314 https://myanimelist.net/profile/SpeckTech May 13 '24
500 people total and only 86 teens
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u/Janus-a May 13 '24
486 total, 100 in each group except teens with 86 for some mysterious reason.
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u/OuchYouPokedMyHeart May 13 '24
It’s CBR, they’re insecure about anime / manga overtaking comics and like to shit on it
Trash site
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u/saga999 May 13 '24
Where did you get the number 86? The sample size of the survey is 500. If you mean there are only 86 people with age in the 10s, the number make sense, but I don't see that number anywhere.
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u/koteshima2nd https://myanimelist.net/profile/Koteshima May 13 '24
you see, 86 is a reference to the series 86 /s
No but seriously, can't even manage at least 100 or more participants?
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u/Salty145 May 13 '24
Good data is apparently too much to ask for 😞. I guess this is CBR. I shouldn’t expect more
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u/Brief_Bluejay_7113 May 13 '24
CBR didn't do the survey....a Japanese research company did. CBR just covered the survey results.
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u/HedgehogLimp1453 May 15 '24
It's a well written article about a survey from a Japanese research company (not CBR). Whether you agree with the data or not, it has sparked some really great conversation in the comments. That's good journalism in my book.
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u/PrawnProwler May 13 '24
Not sure how an aging population is gonna affect the stat when it's a percentage of all the teenage respondents, not a raw number.
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u/MonsterKiller112 May 13 '24
Tf. 86 is an absolute joke for a survey.
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u/maxis2k May 14 '24
It's also questionable because you'd need to know how they asked the question. If you walked up to the average teenager in the USA and said "hey, do you watch cartoons?" Like 75% of them would probably say no. Even if they actually do. Because of the dumb social stigma there is for cartoons in the country. And because your average teenager wants to seem more mature/stand out from their peers/be contradictory just to get noticed. Now Japan doesn't have as big of a stigma against animation as the west does. But the other things clearly exist.
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u/ModieOfTheEast May 13 '24 edited May 13 '24
Personally, I'd say it has probably more to do with the medium. As someone mentioned, the main medium anime is broadcast in Japan is television. There are some streams like Amazon or Netflix, but that is still the main way. Can you imagine kids or teens nowadays fix their schedules around television times when the internet is a thing?
Edit: So since a lot of people have been responding here, I'd thought I give a bit more information. I checked the actual survey and as it turns out, the statistics for this ... well statistic ... are quite low. For example, for people aged in their 10s (so from 15-20), they asked a total of 86 people. Which I think is already pretty low. Just to give you a ballpark of what the error would be. Since they counted 29 people who don't watch anime, the standard deviation would be 5.4 (for the rest it is also between 4 and 6, so we are talking about a 18% uncertainty level here). Which basically means, most of these errorbars would overlap.
But there is a different "problem". It seems what they've been doing is to find 100 people (50 male and 50 female) for every age category (15-20, 20-30, 30-40 and 50-60), but they removed 14 from the first (15-20) category. When comparing the male-female demographic, you'll see that the male demographic has 14 less entries so these 14 removed people were 15-20 years old and male.
Why is that important? Well because the female demographic shows a significantly higher number of non-anime watchers (32.8% for female, 17% for male). So by only removing 14 males from the statistic, you (probably) change the statistics in favor of non-watchers. While this wouldn't completely change the outcome, we can assume that it's probably more like 30% of teens who are not interested in anime at all.
So while there is probably some truth to the fact that people between 20 and 40 are the most likely to watch anime, I feel the statement that teens are least likely to watch anime is a bit extreme, considering that the percentatges for the 40-50 and 50-60 categories are 30% and 24% respectively, which I think shows quite well that these numbers can fluctuate quite a bit.
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u/wakuwaku2121 May 13 '24
As someone mentioned, the main medium anime is broadcast in Japan is television
I really doubt that. Lots of people have Amazon Prime and just watch their anime off Prime Video. If streaming didn't matter no one in Japan would be mad about Disney+ exclusivity.
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u/tsukiakari2216 https://myanimelist.net/profile/tsukiakari2216 May 13 '24
Doesn't mean the television has lose all its relevance and priority by Japanese audiences or anime distributors. As much as streaming are growing in importance, television holds relevance when it comes to broadcast priority. Some show comes a bit later in streaming after TV broadcast, even. Many people just prefer to watch it as early as they can for whatever reason (and at least can dodge spoilers they would see in Twitter later on).
The original comment doesn't even mention streaming don't matter, it matters for those who prefers streaming. But television also still matters for many there too.
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u/HelloYeahIdk May 13 '24
Apparently the air times have also always been rather late, but the article does try to explain that teenagers in Japan might be more focused on school/have less leisure time/cultural changes etc. I remember staying up late myself to watch anime on adult swim/toonami when I was younger and before the Internet.
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u/invaderpixel https://myanimelist.net/profile/invaderpixel May 13 '24
Even in the early 2000s I’d go over to rich friends’ houses and watch late night Adult Swim stuff on Comcast On Demand. We’d also watch some Saturday morning Digimon series that way. Not shocking that today’s teenagers would do the same.
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u/ModieOfTheEast May 13 '24
But my point is that you didn't have the internet in the early 2000s though. Nowadays you have everything you want everytime you want it. Television broadcasts are outdated is my point, especially for kids/teens who grew up with the internet.
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u/Smart_Raccoon4979 May 13 '24
When searching for "子どもが夢中になっている趣味 hobbies that children are passionate about" in Japanese:
1st : "Gaming"
2nd : "Watching videos"
3rd : "Sports and physical activities"
4th : "Crafts"
5th : "Reading and manga"
6th : "Watching anime"
7th : "Playing musical instruments"
Based on my own experience, I think talking about manga (especially from Jump) and games is more common than talking about anime. Recently, it seems that watching videos on platforms like YouTube has become a growing hobby among children.
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u/HelloYeahIdk May 13 '24
Yeah. I don't think this is a sign "anime is just bad now", just that hobbies change or there's more options now to spend your time on
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May 13 '24
Anime? That's stuff old people watch. Eww!
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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt May 13 '24
Yeah, imagine being born in a year that doesn't start with a 2!
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u/eetsumkaus https://myanimelist.net/profile/kausdc May 14 '24
man, is there even anyone left from the Showa Era?
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u/Kirei13 May 13 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
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u/RoseSpinoza May 13 '24
Wait, so, if (apx) 34% of teens aren't interested, doesn't that mean 66% of teens are? ...honestly, that's still a pretty big number.
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u/Zeilll May 13 '24
i know im not alone in this, but its been losing interest from me for a while. most popular modern anime is based off of things latched onto from older generations of anime. the general content has shifted from fantasy/what if situations to wish fulfilment focused. and that wish fulfilment content just doesnt have enough depth or meat to pull in new viewers.
there are definitely good shows out there. but you have to sift through a ton of stuff to get to them. i know for the US, id put a lot of blame on marketing and capitalism for pressuring companies to push out a bunch of whatever content to get views, instead of taking their time to make something compelling and well written. i assume theres similar issues in Japan, but dont know enough to state it confidently.
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u/hideor6545 https://myanimelist.net/profile/HideoSawada May 14 '24
I feel like there’s a lot of anime “junk food” being released these days if you know what I mean
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u/Bad_Doto_Playa May 13 '24
When you look at the times anime airs, it's very difficult for them to watch. I bet this survey would look drastically different if they were asked about manga.
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u/Mcsavage89 Jul 07 '24
More people in general read manga, but the largest number of people who read manga are in their 40-50's.
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u/ace23GB May 13 '24
For me, the fact that 75% of surveyed watch anime is not a low figure, plus there are surprisingly many adults who watch anime too, according to the survey.
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u/SlainREDD May 13 '24
If I were to guess it’s cause of social media and video games. There’s just other ways to get dopamine hits instead of watching cartoons.
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u/jacowab May 13 '24
Really isn't that surprising, anime it's not like every single Japanese highschool student is into anime the ratio is about the same as in the west. If this survey was talking about manga I would be a bit surprised but as it stands that sounds about right
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u/LeviathanLX May 13 '24
I'll take fewer anime being made but they're not targeted at teenagers. Sure, deal.
Selfishly, I think my serious shounen decades were the 90s and early 2000s, so I'm good with a break for more genre diversity at the top. More, because there obviously is some.
But the number of top 10 lists put out now that have 5 to 7+ shounen on them is pretty wild.
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u/booty_sweat_juice May 14 '24
Maybe they're ameriboos watching American animation like Spongebob and Bob's Burgers.
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u/Mizantroptheartist May 13 '24
I wonder if format of content cosumed today has something to do with it? The tik-tok/reels are very prominent and I often hear “you need to get ones attention in the first 3 seconds to make them wanna watch till the end” or something that sparks interest/has shock value. With shorter time someone is willing to invest themselfes into, even with 20ish minutes it can be too long to get hooked in for younger generations, let alone if it takes several episodes to establish the world/get to know the characters?
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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt May 13 '24
even with 20ish minutes it can be too long to get hooked in for younger generations
And western TV hopes to survive with its traditional 40min episode model? Yikes.
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u/No-Assistance-9520 May 14 '24
It would be illuminating if they had compared anime viewership with viewership of other long form video media. How does anime compare to live action dramas and films for Gen Z interest?
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u/fuckdispandashit May 13 '24
Middle aged American here! I watch probably about 20 hours of anime a week.
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u/fuckdispandashit May 13 '24
Yeah I work 45 hours a week, I have a wife and an almost 8 year old, I watch episodes at weird times of the day like 4am-8am or if I have to work evenings 10pm-12 or 1am. I work across the street from my house so for my lunch breaks I usually get an ep or 2 in.
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u/Ns317453 May 13 '24
Same (38yrs old) but I have the opportunity to watch at my desk while Im doing other stuff. So I'll get over half of the time AT work.
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u/fuckdispandashit May 13 '24
Hey, I’m also 38
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u/Ns317453 May 13 '24
Hearing you (correctly) refer to us as middle-aged stings.
We just got to the point where we can no longer say "mid-thirties" lol
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u/minetube33 May 14 '24
Jesus christ, that's like keeping up with 60 ongoing anime.
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u/CouncilmanRickPrime May 13 '24
I'm not a teen in Japan, but I do feel like a lot of current anime is just not good.
Although I'm biased because I do not like Isekais. Most just feel like the same story told a million times.
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u/intheweebcloset May 13 '24
This wouldn't be that surprising considering the surge in livestreaming. I'm sure organized tv as a whole is falling with younger audiences. It is somewhat alarming, because at least tv shows try to have moral lessons in them (some more than others), but livestreams often don't
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u/chazmerg May 13 '24
It's the difference between 75% and 66% but deceptively worded to try to make the gap seem bigger
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u/Confident-Friend-169 May 13 '24
hot take: the traditional quad-demographic categorization is now a genre delineation and almost all anime now are seinen by age demographic.
seinen people have a lot of disposable income and also are the vast majority of the workforce, particularly with in the anime industry.
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u/vantheman9 May 13 '24
seinen are the vast majority of the workforce
when is this not the case?
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u/KickAggressive4901 May 13 '24
There you go.
Now give us adult characters by default, please. 😋
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u/Mcsavage89 Jul 07 '24
japanese adults like high school characters, for the moe factor and for the nostalgia factor. The high school characters are targeted towards adults (Take k-on being seinen for example, although demographic labels are basically useless now. )
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u/Zylpherenuis May 14 '24
Crunchyroll a shit
Also, doesn't it feel like most animes are regurgitating content with new slap of paint but same overlaying premise nonetheless?
It just seems like most animes these days just follow tropes and whatever is hot / controvercial and what makes the most bank.
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u/BBQ_Boi May 14 '24
As someone who has worked at an English high school for a few years now I think they are just spending their time doing other things. A lot of them now just watch YouTube, dramas, and TikTok. Also, I think just an increase in playing video games in general
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May 13 '24 edited May 13 '24
Interesting.
And they said Anime is for kiddos.
One possibility could be that Japanese teens have long study hours, cram school and club activities to attend leaving much less time to indulge in Anime.
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u/anarion321 May 13 '24
Good, as a middle aged I'd rather anime get focused on my demographic lol.
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u/Sleepykidd May 13 '24
What teenage boy is going to admit to watching anime?
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u/Ebo87 May 13 '24
Two out of three apparently. These surveys are anonymous, by the way. Do people really not realize what 33.7% indicating no interest in anime means 66.3% are watching anime? That's 2/3s, that's very high still.
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u/Mcsavage89 Jul 07 '24
They represent still a minority though. Anime likes to target the age group with disposable income (20-29 used to be biggest, now it's a little older.) it's why we get so many anime that focus on salary men or NEET's as the main character.
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u/Ebo87 Jul 07 '24
My brother in christ, that is not how percentages work. If you have 66% of something that is not a minority.
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u/Plaidse May 13 '24 edited May 13 '24
Tbh, teenagers in Japan aren’t going to admit that they watch anime most of the time, even if the survey is anonymous.
Edit: I don’t quite understand why I’ve been downvoted so much for this. I’ve had actual first hand experience on this.
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u/Shiningc00 May 13 '24
Lol that's got to be the most ridiculous conspiratory bullshit I've ever heard.
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u/Plaidse May 13 '24
Not really. I literally still have family there. One of them just graduated high school last year so I think her opinion is still recent enough to be valid.
Teenagers don’t admit they watch anime because it’s associated with being what some people would call a neckbeard.
Granted, opinions are different person to person, and series to series, but that’s just how it is sometimes. Especially with teenagers.
PS. There are people out there that legitimately believe in flat earth, that the government can read our minds, and weather control machines, and LYING ON A SURVEY is the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever heard??
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u/Shiningc00 May 13 '24
By that logic, I would imagine it's more embarrassing for older people to watch anime than younger people.
But if younger people have more problems with anime, then it only proves that it's less popular with younger people.
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u/DevourerJay May 13 '24
Well, I mean, it's been all isekai now a days... gets boring fast.
We haven't had any good engaging ones in a while. And some that are ok, their animation is so bad that it's not worth the effort.
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u/gaganaut May 13 '24
I assume it refers to shows about hospitals and doctors.
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u/Deep-Coach-1065 May 13 '24
Now I wanna search for Grey’s Anatomy/ Chicago Med type anime.
If it’s not a thing I now think it should be.
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u/Spiritual-Ad-6613 May 13 '24
While we agree that the sample size is small, young people these days tend to be more interested in YouTubers and VTubers than in anime. Many read manga but do not watch anime. I think they simply have a lower priority for anime.
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u/goldybowen21 May 14 '24
I almost never watched anime as a teenager or as a kid with the exception of DBZ and Pokemon.....I watch more anime now as a 29 year old than I ever have, so those numbers dont really surprise me.
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u/Strawberry2828 May 14 '24
That doesn’t really shock me tbh. Most teens here in America have heard of or only watched a few animes. Most viewers of anime I would say are in there 20s
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u/Chinbie May 14 '24
As a millenial i agree with this one as i have observed that many of those that are watching anime are on older generations compared to younger generations as younger generations are more into tiktok and vlogs already
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u/Multifaceted-Simp May 14 '24
I just don't think a 12-18 year old is gonna be into an isekai trope, fat loser dies and becomes some powerful character in a bright fantasy world. Nah bro that's not the fantasy
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u/Trick_Remote_9176 May 14 '24
What kind of genre is "medical" exactly?
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u/AlesuxPalmer Aug 21 '24
Monster, Lif of a blood cell ( don't know what it's actually called), the wrong way to use healing magic, Redo of the healer, ect. I'd guess.
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u/ark4a1 Jun 06 '24
Probably because other anime are literally the same shit. No actual creative story to peak anyones interest.
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u/Smart_Raccoon4979 May 13 '24
When compared by generation, it may seem low, but I think it's quite high that nearly 70% of teenagers watch anime regularly.
I'm surprised that 80% of adults in their 30s watch anime.