More Ghibli Analysis
Posted: December 31, 2011 Filed under: Anime, Ghibli, Movies 4 Comments »-
School life has really drained all the time I used to have to collect data and write this blog. Who would have thought I actually had more free time when I was working! Anyway, here is a long-delayed post, just before the end of the year.
This post is the second part of my previous post about Ghibli. It contains a few more analysis and interesting tidbits from the data I have collected.
RATING VS. POPULARITY
The chart below is a scatter plot of rankings for rating and popularity for all Ghibli-related films. The cool thing about this chart is that it also indicates the overrated and underrate films. For example, Whisper of the Heart is ranked 7th overall based on all the ratings but only 12th on the number of people watching and rating the film. This means that not as many people watch it as it deserves based on its rating
Ghibli Movies Ranking and Analysis
Posted: June 13, 2011 Filed under: Anime, Anime studio, Ghibli, Movies 20 Comments »I watched anime on TV quite religiously on weekend morning during my primary school years but moved away from it during my teens. That is until I came across this one studio called Ghibli. My brother took me to watch a movie called Princess Mononoke. It was amazing, with the combination of flawless animation and exciting action and story telling. I wanted more. This godt me to researching what other films the director has done and that led me to Spirited Away. At that point, the film still has 100% record on rotten tomatoes and I really made it my mission to track this down and watch it. I got a hold of a bootleg copy and was blown away by the film. It remains one of my favourites to this day. I also started to pay more attention to anime and the rest is history.
A decade on, Studio Ghibli still remains my favourite studio, anime or not. The movies from the studios are also among the first I would recommend to anyone that show the vaguest interest in anime. This particular post is my homage to the studio an a guide for those reading it to find out what the rankings of each movie based on all the English sources on the internet I can think of. This includes
| Source | Type | Weight | Comment |
| IMDB | Rating | 10% | Votes from global movie goers |
| Rottentomatoes | Review | 5% | Compilation of many Wester reviews |
| MRQE | Review | 4% | |
| DVD Talk | Review | 3% | General theatrical and dvd review site |
| DVD Verdict | Review | 3% | General dvd review site |
| Anime Academy | Review | 4% | Used to be my main source of reviews back when it updated more regularly |
| THEM | Review | 4% | |
| Anime Planet | Rating | 12% | |
| Anime Source | Rating | 4% | |
| ANN | Rating | 12% | Anime News Network |
| MAL | Rating | 15% | MyAnimeList – Most votes among anime sites |
| AniDB | Rating | 10% | Anime DataBase. Vote compilation sites with demographic breadown |
| AnimeNfo | Rating | 4% | |
| Blogs | Ranking | 10% | Including Canne’s Anime Review, Kitsune’s Thought, Omohide, wa-pedia, Herons! Make blogs and Japan Cinema |
Best Anime Series in 2000s Rank 1-10 Previews
Posted: June 9, 2011 Filed under: Anime, Series, Top Animes of 2000s Leave a comment »In the very first post in this blog, I wrote about an analysis of the most highly rated anime of the last decade. However, the post is definitely for serious anime fans only as most people will likely have a hard time recognizing a lot of those titles in the top 10. I would like to use this post as previews of each series in the top 20 and hopefully entice the reader to check them out:)
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1). HAIBANE RENMEI
Number of episodes: 13
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Slice of Life
Follow up?: None
Similar anime titles (if you like this, what else you should check out): Mushi-shi, Kino’s Journey, Someday’s Dreamer
Date shown: 9-October-2002
Studio: Radix
Director: Tokoro Tomakazu
Synopsis: Rakka, a newly born Haibane (Angel), awakens into an unfamiliar world with only a strange dream of falling from the sky as her only memory. Alone and scared of who and what she is, she is cared for by fellow Haibanes as they try and search for the meaning of their existence as well as what lies beyond their town’s imprisoning walls. [ANN]
Pros: Rife with symbolism and metaphors; completely original setting; gripping in its oscurity; rich atmosphere; [Anime Academy] sountrack is very soothing and haunting
Cons: Nothing happens; Pace can be very slow
Excerpts:
- Haibane Renmei started off a bit slow, but it closed off with one of the strongest finales I have ever seen. It has both a very imaginative setting, and truly excels at its character-development. [Star Crossed Anime]
- Haibane Renmei sings of wisdom and beauty too elusive and immense for our comprehension. A truly special place is Haibne Renmei, where we can spend an eternity swimming in a pool of thoughts, or losing ourselves in its rejuvenating warmth. [Guri Guri Blog]
- This anime is, in a nutshell, a philosophical one that concentrates on character development. So expect no high octane, fast and furious action. At thirteen episodes, the focus, plot and pacing is just right. It neither drags nor contain unnecessary fillers or recaps [THEM Anime]
In My Own Words: Story is originally based on a doujinshi produced by Yoshitoshi ABe (Serial Experiment Lain, Niea_7) Series was ranked FIRST 7 times (the highest frequency) and also rank in the TOP FIVE 14 times (also the highest). THis is also the only series on the list for Radix. I also love the soundtrack in this, especially ‘Ailes Grises’
More reviews: Anime Academy (87%);
Source: Wikipedia, Anime News Network
Kamen Rider & Super Sentai Shows
Posted: May 16, 2011 Filed under: Kamen Rider, Sentai, Series 8 Comments »The upshot of collecting data for the anime analysis that I had done was that I also have viewership rating data for ‘Kamen Rider’ and ‘Super Sentai’ shows. So just for a change from anime analysis stuffs, I am presenting the rundown of these two types of entertainment over the last decade based on their average daily rating. Again, all caveats about using the rating to equate to popularity still holds (Number should only be compared against shows of the same time slot. Comparison over time is a bit less accurate).
Japanese rating
Posted: April 6, 2011 Filed under: All Anime Analysis, Series 12 Comments »
I have been doing analyses on anime rating and popularity for over a year now, using information from various blogs and websites that are primarily English-based. This begs the question on whether they really captures what an average Japanese audience really finds popular or worth watching. This is when I managed to come across this website which gives data on viewership rating of animes, Sentai and Kamen shows from most Japanese networks, covering the last 11 years from 2000-2010. This is exactly the type of information that will let me find out once and for all the actual popularity of each anime series on TV in Japan. I have listed below the top 10 shows based on average daily rating over the last 11 years.
In this post, I will make extended mentions of the ‘rating’. According to the Video Research explanation of their numbers, these ratings refers to to average percentage of households in which any TV is on and tuned to a particular channel during a particular show. Numbers are based on meters installed in sample households. Meters register every minute, and the results are averaged over the length of a show. [EDIT: As kransom mentioned in the comment section, the Video Research data that I used for this analysis on comes from the Kanto region, which makes up about a third of the total Japanese population. It is a shame the data does not represent the whole of Japan as I originally thought but it should also give a good proxy for the whole country]
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AniDB Analysis – Anime Series 2010 Part 1
Posted: March 4, 2011 Filed under: Anime, Anime 2010, Series 6 Comments »In looking around for other information to analyze anime series and came across AniDB website (thanks to Taka in the previous comment section), which has other unique statistics I have not found anywhere. This includes:
- Anime ratings segmented by males and females
- Anime ratings segmented by age groups
- Individual anime episode rating
- Anime ratings segmented by temporary (ratings posted by people who have not finished a series) and permanent (ratings posted by people who have seen the series) categories
This piqued my interest and after a few (10) hours collecting the data, here are some interesting results based on anime series in 2010 (I am working towards getting data from other year but that is still so far work in progress)
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COMPARISON ANIDB vs. ANN
Best Anime Series 2010 – Seasonal viewpoint
Posted: February 2, 2011 Filed under: Anime 2010, Series 2 Comments »In the comment posted by Taka on my previous post, he mentioned the inherent flaw of end-of-the-year poll/ranking that tend to disregard certain seasons more than others. This got me interested to go back to my data and find out if this is really the case. Did certain season get unfairly dismissed in 2010? Taka’s point of view is that year-end polls favour more recent shows in Fall and disregard shows in Winter which are much further back in time.
I used the ~80 anime series that are ranked, divided them into season and sum up the rank and average score (based on the methodology described in the previous post). There are only 4 series from Winter 2010-11 season that are being released in 2010 and none is listed in any of the polls/ranking unsurprisingly; so I will only concentrate on the 4 main seasons in 2010. Some comments:
SEASONAL ANALYSIS
| Count | Avg ranking | Avg score | STDEV score | Max score | Min score | |
| Winter 2009-10 | 14 | 48 | 1.20% | 1.84% | 6.48% | 0.05% |
| Spring 2010 | 19 | 34 | 1.51% | 1.63% | 6.58% | 0.12% |
| Summer 2010 | 15 | 39 | 1.00% | 0.79% | 2.87% | 0.17% |
| Fall 2010 | 19 | 34 | 1.28% | 1.03% | 3.37% | 0.04% |
1). Each season have relatively good representation. Winter and summer got slightly fewer samples but not by much.
Best Anime Series of 2010 – Definitive look from around the internet
Posted: January 28, 2011 Filed under: Anime, Anime 2010, Series 12 Comments »
This edition of my post will discuss the best / favourite / most highly rated anime of 2010. I have not actually seen any single series myself (I still have a stack of pre-2010 anime dvds I have not yet gone through) so I am highly interested at what series are good and check out. I started off checking the ranking in Anime News Network and also the various blogs and posts around the internet that has ‘Best of 2010 topics’. To me it is exactly like collecting data for my first ‘Best Anime of the Decade’ post again! I have so far amassed data from 33 unique blog posts, 9 forums with over 200 unique user comments, 3 other polls and the ANN ratings. This should provide enough critical mass to judge what anime people around the internet really consider to be the best last year. I am also able to segment the results into different group of voters and have found some interesting tidbits which I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoy finding them out!
Note that I am defining a ’2010 anime series’ as ones that have come out in Japan in the year 2010. Anything aired prior to that will be excluded.
Moe Invasion – Is it true or is it a fantasy?
Posted: December 31, 2010 Filed under: Anime, Series 9 Comments »
I remember making a comment a while back at one of Behind the Nihon Review posts about doing a numerical analysis on whether moe anime series has become more prevalent in recent years or whether it seems that way because of popular series such as K-ON!. Having collected the data from 2000 to 2009, I am using that data to do the analysis below. As soon as I get around to collecting the comprehensive data before 2000 and in 2010, I will update the analysis accordingly.
Anime Studio – Further Genre Analysis
Posted: October 14, 2010 Filed under: Anime, Anime studio, Series 2 Comments »This post will be similar to the last one (have drafted this a few months back but only got time to finish this recently…). It looks at each major genre and single out an animation studios that have excelled in each in term of animes produced of that genre. In one of the posts in Anime Yume, there was an interesting discussion about how a given anime can be categorized. From that, I intend to go with the simple category (shonen, shojo etc.), main genre (action, adventure) and sub-genre (moe, school). The genres I will talk about are:
Main: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Slice-of-life, Mystery
Sub-genre: Mecha, Real robot, Sports, School, Magical girl, Harem, Fanservice, Moe, Yuri, Music
I have already talked about demographic in the previous post so that will be left out of the discussion here.
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Criteria for inclusion
- An animation studio has to produce at least 10 series to be included in the analysis. 26 studios qualify
- Average used for comparison is from all studios qualified in the analysis
- All genre categories are according to wikipedia with information from Anime News Network added when I need a second opinion
1). Absolute number – studio that tops this list shows a tendency to produce a high number of the show in absolute term
2). Greatest percentage of total anime produced by that studio (studio produced 10, 7 of which is action, the percentage is 70%) – studio that tops this list shows tendency to favour producing shows of certain genre over other genres it can produce
Note that I will list the more interesting results at the beginning and the more ambiguous ones towards the end.
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1. ACTION
i). Gonzo – 23 (average = 6.0)
ii). Gonzo – 44% (average = 20%)
Relatively conclusive position. Notable action series are Tower of Druaga, Afro Samurai, Hellsing and Burst Angel
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