What Japan thinks about live action movies based on manga?

It seems many japanese dislike the idea of adapting anime and manga series for a live action version of it…This recent survey from iShare via What Japan thinks shed some light about the preference of many Japanese for this adaptations…

Demographics

Between the 5th and 10th of November 2009 531 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 59.3% of the sample were male, 34.7% in their twenties, 30.9% in their thirties, and 34.5% in their forties.

Q1: Has any manga that you like ever been made into an anime? (Sample size=531)

	All	Male N=315	Female N=216
Yes (if yes, jump to SQs)	66.3%	65.4%	67.6%
No	33.7%	34.6%	32.4%

Q1SQ1: How did you feel when you first heard it had been made into an anime? (Sample size=352)

	All	Male N=206	Female N=146
Really happy	25/3%	27.7%	21.9%
A little happy	31.0%	33.0%	28.1%
Nothing in particular	22.2%	23.3%	20.5%
A little bad	17.6%	12.6%	24.7%
Totally bad	4.0%	3.4%	4.8%

Q1SQ2: Have you watched the anime version of a manga you like? (Sample size=352)

	All	Male N=206	Female N=146
Yes	94.9%	94.7%	95.2%
No	5.1%	5.3%	4.8%

Q2: Has there been an anime that you enjoyed when you first saw it, but then found out later that it was based on a manga? (Sample size=531)

	All	Male N=315	Female N=216
Yes	52.7%	51.1%	55.1%
No	47.3%	48.9%	44.9%

Q3: Has there been a television drama, movie, etc that you enjoyed when you first saw it, but then found out later that it was based on a manga? (Sample size=531)

	All	Male N=315	Female N=216
Yes	53.7%	47.9%	62.0%
No	46.3%	52.1%	38.0%

Q4: What do you think about anime versions of manga? (Sample size=531)

	All	Male N=315	Female N=216
Completely approve	15.4%	19.7%	9.3%
Approve to some extent	52.9%	48.3%	59.7%
Disapprove to some extent	26.4%	25.1%	28.2%
Completely disapprove	5.3%	7.0%	2.8%

Q5: What do you think about live-action versions of manga? (Sample size=531)

	All	Male N=315	Female N=216
Completely approve	4.7%	5.4%	3.7%
Approve to some extent	30.5%	28.6%	33.3%
Disapprove to some extent	42.7%	41.0%	45.4%
Completely disapprove	22.0%	25.1%	17.6%

Source: iShare via What Japan thinks

I am not surprised by many of this answers, especially the one about live versions of manga…There have been quite a lot of disasters lately, trying to adapt manga into live action…

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