世論 What Japan Thinks

The title is a hint to the question goo Ranking recently asked the goo Research monitor group, which completed famous serialised manga do you not actually know the conclusion of.

Demographics

Between the 21st and 23th of May 2008 1,072 members of the goo Research monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. Exactly 50% of the sample were male, 5.7% in their teens, 12.9% in their twenties, 31.8% in their thirties, 27.5% in their forties, 11.3% in their fifties, and 10.8% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Not being much of a manga reader myself, and certainly not of the weekly phone directory-sized comics, I cannot really comment on this. However, no doubt some of my readers might inform me of the conclusions, so if you don’t want to get endings spoilt, please stop reading now!

Ranking results

Q: Which completed famous serialised manga do you not actually know the conclusion of? (Sample size=1,072)

Rank		Score
1	Dr Slump	100
2	City Hunter	61.4
3	Dragonball	51.6
4	Touch	42.9
5	Fist of the North Star	42.3
6	Ranma 1/2	40.9
7	Captain Tsubasa	38.8
8	Maison Ikkoku	38.3
9	Tokumeki Tonight	38.0
10	YAWARA!	29.6
11	Hana Yori Dango	27.0
12	YuYu Hakusho	26.1
13	Rurouri Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story	24.6
14	Saint Seiya	23.2
15	Animal Doctor	22.9
16	Kotaro Makaritoru	20.6
17	Ping-Pong Club	20.0
18	GTO	19.4
19	Hikaru no Go	18.8
19=	Akira	18.8
21=	Slam Dunk	17.7
21=	Mobile Police Patlabor	17.7
23	Death Note	16.8
24=	Twentieth Century Boys	15.9
24=	Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari	15.9
26	Natsuko’s Sake	15.1
27	Gallery Fake	14.8
28=	Akazukin Chacha	14.5
28=	Baby and Me	14.5
30	The Silent Service	13.9