What Japan thinks about Manga, Games, Doujinshi and other things?

iShare conducted a  survey among their members to see what are their thoughts about different subjects like Anime, Manga and Doujinshi. In the survey, They included two interesting questions related to some of the news We posted in the past. Remember the Anime Shrine, ex-PM Taro Aso wanted to build and the new Manga Library at Meiji University? We have the results to the survey and the answers are very fascinating.

Demographics

Between the 26th and 28th of October 2009 456 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 55.3% of the sample were male, 31.8% in their twenties, 33.8% in their thirties, and 34.4% in their forties.

Research results
Q1: Do you like to read manga? (Sample size=456)

	All	Male N=252	Female N=204
Love it	37.3%	31.7%	44.1%
Like it	41.4%	43.3%	39.2%
Dislike it	14.3%	16.7%	11.3%
Hate it	7.0%	8.3%	5.4%

Q2: Do you like console gaming? (Sample size=456)

	All	Male N=252	Female N=204
Love it	20.0%	17.9%	22.5%
Like it	43.2%	46.0%	39.7%
Dislike it	24.6%	26.2%	22.5%
Hate it	12.3%	9.9%	15.2%

Q3: Have you ever read doujinshi? (Sample size=456)

	All	Male N=252	Female N=204
Yes	54.4%	46.8%	63.7%
No	45.6%	53.2%	36.3%

Q4: For a while, the government set aside a budget of 11.7 billion yen towards building an “Anime Palace” (National Media Arts Centre) for manga, anime, games, etc. Did you agree with this plan? (Sample size=456)

	All	Male N=252	Female N=204
Completely agreed	3.9%	4.0%	3.9%
Agreed to some extent	23.0%	22.6%	23.5%
Opposed to some extent	33.8%	32.5%	35.3%
Completely opposed	39.3%	40.9%	37.3%

Q5: Meiji University have announced that they are collecting manga, anime, games, etc for the “Tokyo International Manga Library”, which they plan to open by 2014. One aim is to preserve this large sub-culture and keep it for future generations. As well as paper publications, they also plan to acquire doujinshi, figurines, etc. What do you think of this plan? (Sample size=456)

	All	Male N=252	Female N=204
Completely agree	14.7%	17.9%	10.8%
Agree to some extent	42.5%	43.3%	41.7%
Oppose to some extent	25.9%	23.0%	29.4%
Completely oppose	16.9%	15.9%	18.1%

Source: iShare via What Japan Thinks

What do you think about the results? I think the idea of a Manga library is better than the expensive Anime Shrine.

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