After our mecha poll last month, this was inevitable. The Gundam franchise as a whole has ranked number one with our readers, but each individual Gundam series was lumped together and not considered individually. So now it’s time to pit them all against each other …Read more »
The Summer 2021 anime season is just around the corner, with a great deal of new series debuting in the next month. Some well established and long-running series will also be continuing through this season. Which of these is most exciting to you? We’ve compiled …Read more »
It's time for a big, broad-sweeping question: what's the best mecha anime series of all time? It's a tough one to answer, but to help you narrow it down, we've created a multiple choice poll with the low, low number of 81 possible choices of …Read more »
We’re mid-way through June, and about to head into the Summer 2021 anime season, so it’s a good time to look back at the best anime of Spring 2021. What anime did you enjoy most this spring? We’ve put together a poll below to tally …Read more »
Iyashikei is a genre of anime and manga considered to have a calming, therapeutic effect on the audience. Also simply known as “healing anime”, there’s frequent overlap with the slice-of-life genre, and it tends to focus on pleasant, heart-warming daily activities happening in a safe, …Read more »
With 2020 behind us (good riddance) it’s a good time to look back on the anime that aired in the last year. What do you think was best? Voice your opinion below. It’s multiple choice, and we wanted to include as many conceivable answers as …Read more »
The magical girl genre is one of the longest-running in manga and anime, and spans a surprising range from the upbeat shojo fare which has been its trademark, to male-oriented fan service like Cutie Honey, and darker themes like Madoka Magica. While some magical girl …Read more »
You might have noticed a certain aesthetic to how bishonen are usually portrayed in anime and manga, and that includes a penchant for the men being smooth-skinned. According to a new survey, this just matches up with Japanese women’s preferences. Men’s Hair Removal Salon surveyed …Read more »
When you think of the last decade of modern anime films, which features strike you as the most impressive? Japanese survey site Rankingoo aimed to find the answer by polling 10,314 people between the age of teenagers and 60-year-olds, with the only major stipulation being …Read more »
Some Shonen Jump series are great at tugging on the ol’ heart strings, which is bound to happen when you have some of the biggest manga in the world collected in one weekly magazine. To find out which Shonen Jump series made Japanese fans cry, …Read more »
Which Haruhi Suzumiya character do you love the most? To build up anticipation for this month’s release of the long-awaited 12th volume of Nagaru Tanigawa’s light novel series, The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya, KADOKAWA is firing up a poll to get to the bottom of …Read more »
In the past, we’ve covered what Japanese fans think about romance anime series, but we haven’t polled our readers on the topic before, and there’s no time like the present! We’ve assembled a list of over 60 of the most likely candidates; vote for your …Read more »
Adaptations of titles from shonen manga magazines makeup a disproportionate amount of the new anime produced every year, so in our recent efforts to poll for audience opinions, we’d be remiss not to hit this topic. We’ve put together a list of 29 of the …Read more »
Summer is finally here and COVID-19 lockdowns are wrapping up across the world, but current events still present various factors which make it feel impractical or unwise for people venture outside, take a vacation or go to the beach. Therefore we figured it’s a good …Read more »
In the dystopian future of Earth A.D. 2020, the world’s governments publicly struggle to reconcile the looming presence of UFOs, as citizens cower indoors from the grim realities of contagious disease, a doomed economy, and cripplingly divisive politics… communicating exclusively over THE NET through constant …Read more »
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