世論 What Japan Thinks

Following on from yesterday’s look at Neon Genesis Evangelion, lets look today with iShare again at big mech anime, or cartoons of giant robots knocking lumps out of each other for those not familiar with the technical terms.

Demographics

Between the 11th and 16th of June 2009 600 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.7% of the sample were male, 35.8% in their twenties, 29.5% in their thirties, and 34.7% in their forties.

I’m not sure what Atom Boy is doing in Q1SQ2, and if he is included, why not Doraemon too?

A Gundam robot in Tokyo is one of the capital’s attempts to sway the Olympic committee into picking Japan for 2016. Here’s a video of it in action:

Research results

Q1: Have you ever watched mech robot special effects, animations, other works? (Sample size=600)

	All	Male N=340	Female N=260
Yes, often watch (to SQ1, SQ2, SQ3, SQ4)	8.3%	7.9%	8.8%
Yes, sometimes watch (to SQ1, SQ2, SQ3, SQ4)	15.8%	16.8%	14.6%
Used to watch, but not now (to SQ1, SQ2, SQ3, SQ4)	31.8%	35.3%	27.3%
Never watched	44.0%	40.0%	49.2%

Q1SQ1: From what age did you watch mech works? (Sample size=336)

	All	Male N=204	Female N=132
From under 10 years old	61.6%	61.3%	62.1%
From 10 to 14 years old	28.3%	29.9%	25.8%
From 15 to 19 years old	6.5%	6.4%	6.8%
From 20 years old or older	3.6%	2.5%	5.3%

Q1SQ2: Which of the following mech works do you know? (Sample size=336, multiple answer)

	All	Male N=204	Female N=132
Gundam series	61.9%	65.7%	56.1%
Neon Genesis Evangelion	46.1%	48.0%	43.2%
Time Bokan series, (Yatterman, etc)	43.5%	43.6%	43.2%
Mazinger series (Mazinger Z, Tranzor Z, etc)	39.0%	47.1%	26.5%
Kamen Rider series	38.4%	35.8%	42.4%
Macross series	38.4%	41.2%	34.1%
Getter Robo series	31.2%	41.7%	15.2%
Patlabor	28.9%	33.3%	22.0%
Atom Boy	26.8%	27.0%	26.5%
Tetsujin 28-go	21.7%	23.5%	18.9%
Armored Trooper VOTOMS	18.2%	22.1%	12.1%
Eureka Seven	16.4%	14.2%	19.7%
Space Runaway Ideon	16.1%	18.6%	12.1%
Transformers series	14.9%	13.7%	16.7%
Genesis of Aquarion	11.0%	10.3%	12.1%
Other	8.6%	5.9%	12.9%
None	1.2%	1.0%	1.5%

Q1SQ3: What do you find attractive regarding mech works? (Sample size=336, multiple answer)

	All	Male N=204	Female N=132
Story	61.6%	60.3%	63.6%
The mechs themselves	60.4%	70.6%	44.7%
World view	54.2%	53.4%	55.3%
Characters other than the mechs	42.3%	36.3%	51.5%
Battle scenes	41.1%	46.6%	32.6%
Dialogue	19.0%	18.6%	19.7%
Other	2.7%	3.4%	1.5%

Q1SQ4: Have you ever bought any mech-related goods, DVDs, etc? (Sample size=336)

	All	Male N=204	Female N=132
Yes (to SQ5, SQ6)	53.0%	54.4%	50.8%
No	47.0%	45.6%	49.2%

Q1SQ5: In total, how much have you spent on mech-related goods, DVDs, etc? (Sample size=178)

	All	Male N=111	Female N=67
Under 5,000 yen	19.7%	20.7%	17.9%
5,000 to 9,999 yen	9.6%	9.9%	9.0%
10,000 to 29,999 yen	22.5%	23.4%	20.9%
30,000 to 49,999 yen	15.2%	15.3%	14.9%
50,000 to 99,999 yen	8,4%	9.9%	6.0%
100,000 yen or more	24.7%	20.7%	31.3%

Q1SQ6: Have you ever bought on sale on internet-only mech-related goods, DVDs, etc? (Sample size=178)

	All	Male N=111	Female N=67
Yes	28.7%	27.0%	31.3%
No	71.3%	73.0%	68.7%