Forum - View topicINTEREST: Japanese Grade Schoolers Vote on Their Favorite Anime
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mdo7
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Wow, that's surprising, nice to see Kuroko is #1 despite one haters sending threats and all. But I like their choice and taste in their anime selection.
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RyanSaotome
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The LN brand that publishes it focuses on the Shonen demographic (13-18 Males) |
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vashfanatic
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I decided to go straight to the Japanese page to confirm this was just elementary school children. Let me translate:
1st place (with 37 votes): Kuroko's Basketball. 2nd place (with 32 votes): Inazuma 3rd place (with 20 votes): Sword Art Online 4th place (with 13 votes): OreImo 5th place (with 11 votes): Ouran Host Club, Gintama (tie) 6th place (with 10 votes): Magi 7th place (with 8 votes): Prince of Tennis, Soul Eater (tie) 8th place (with 7 votes): Attack on Titan, Aikatsu (tie) 9th place (with 6 votes): Haganai 10th place (with 4 votes): Danboru Senki Wars Followed by dozens of other series with fewer votes. 282 votes in total. And people were allowed to vote more than once. This poll is completely unscientific and most likely unrepresentative. That said, given that older elementary school children are more likely to be on an online forum and filling out a poll, I'm not completely shocked by some of the answers. When I worked in Japan, the really young kids were all into One Piece and Pokemon, but by the time they were in upper elementary school, yes, they'd moved on. They still followed One Piece, but it was no longer their favorite. Inazuma was popular with boys, Kuroko with girls. One of my fifth graders said Evangelion was his favorite anime of all time. So there definitely are kids with more mature tastes. Nothing listed here would be considered inappropriate for teenagers in Japan. Last edited by vashfanatic on Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:43 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Sobe
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Why not? The society they live in is unique just like every other society children live in. The stuff children watch in the U.S. would give some of the adults in Japan the same reaction. |
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malvarez1
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Not sure why people are shocked about Attack on Titan. It IS a Shonen, and Shonen anime are popular with boys in Japan.
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vashfanatic
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Shonen is a spectrum running from elementary through high school. The magazine Attack on Titan is published in leans towards the older end of that (it also carried Flowers of Evil and Sankarea, among others), but I could definitely see fifth and sixth graders getting into it. Anime tend to be watched by children younger than the target demo of the manga, btw. That's why quite a few of them edit some things slightly for TV. |
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hyojodoji
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Though Ms Dong has said, 'Japanese grade schoolers recently voted' and 'The poll was conducted on a grade school-only forum' and the forum says, 'Elementary School Students' Message Board,' actually, anyone can post messages on the Möbius Ring Fora. In fact, I have seen vippers jokingly post messages on the Möbius Ring Fora, including the Elementary School Student Message Board. And people vote anime which they like more than once in the thread, and even the first place received only 37 votes as of writing this. Probably it is better not to think that is a result of academically reliable and accurate social research or something. |
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Nemui_Nezumi
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yey for Kuroko~
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EricJ
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Why not?...Every-danged-body ELSE is watching it! 
(No, seriously, what's going on??)
I'm assuming Pokemon:Classic (ie. the '99 Ash & Pikachu version that springs to mind for most of us) suffered the same fate there as in the US: Once you get out of sixth grade and discover your fourth-grade little brother and his friends have just introduced each other to the craze and are into it....that's all, brother!--Might as well be watching Barney! It's officially been stigma'ed, and you're into the next craze, usually the one the older junior-high kids are into. One Piece never really had that problem over here, since fewer little kids watch Cartoon Network. |
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Mohawk52
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switchgear1131
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Oreimo really surprised me too. While not obviously adult like other harem type animes this one is still adult and centres around a theme of incest. |
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Ginsan
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There are so much wrongs in this imo
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