Anime Studio – Genre Demographics

Posted: July 25, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: All Anime Analysis, Anime, Anime studio, Series | 3 Comments

When collecting the anime information over the last decade, I have also gotten around to collecting what genre(s) each anime belongs to. This vary quite a bit from the basic genre (action, adventure, comedy, drama) but also sub-genre like (school, sports, music, mecha). When possible, I also try to differentiate whether the anime is shonen, shojo, seinen or josei. With this information, I am able to assign each major studios the most repeated genre of its anime releases to see whether any cool trend can be gleaned or certain beliefs justified (that studio XXX only does action, Studio YYY does more fanservice than others).

In this first post on this topic however, I will first look at the look at the demographic genre, since it is a little easier to segment and discuss.  This can be divided as either Shonen (boy), Shojo (girl), seinen (grown male), josei (grown female) and Kodomo (young children). I hope that this will give some perspective to what studios are the major player in each category. At least I certainly learn something myself from it! Criteria and assumptions I use to come up with this analysis is presented right at the end of the post.

– Top anime studio listed for each demographic is based on:

i). the percentage of the anime categorized explicitly as that genre over total anime produced (highest share of animes in that demographic)

ii). total absolute number of anime series from that genre produced (highest number of animes in that demographic)

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SHONEN

i).  Artland – 54% (average across all samples is 32%)

ii).  J.C. Staff – 22 series (average =7.8)

(Note that the brackets above refer to the average across all studios. This should give a point of comparison to how the top studios compare with the mean)

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Anime Studio Proficiency – Series

Posted: July 20, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: All Anime Analysis, Anime, Anime studio, Series, Top Animes of 2000s | 12 Comments

I have recently finished inputting the data from 2000 to 2009 (pending some quality check but that will have to come later) so now I can start doing some more anime of the animes from the last decade. The first analysis I want to do is to look closely at animes produced by each studio and how many are recognized as great. For example, Madhouse studios have by far the most anime series listed in the top 100 (18). However, it is possible that it produces so many that if you look from the ratio perspective (how many series produced to how many listed), its record may not be so prolific.

Some note before the list:
– The list is ranked on the number of anime series that appear in the ‘top 100 anime series of the decade‘ list (see my previous post here for the list itself and the methodology behind it) over the total anime series production released by the studio [quality percentage] – The logic is that the higher this number, the more likely the studio is to release great series as opposed to forgettable duds (the more accurate measure should be taking an average of the anime score that it produces, from say ANN rating. I currently do not have the data to do that at this point so I am sticking with this methodology for now).

– Studios need to have a minimum of 10 series produced in the decade. This excludes the possibility of a studio being a one-hit wonder and top the list with 100%, having only done one good anime.

– The list only includes anime series. I will have a different list with movies +OAVs

– Bear in mind that I am working with an anime series sample of 974. So when I am comparing it with the top 100 anime series, on average, the quality percentage of a studio should be 10.2% or there should be 9.7 series for every one good series produced. Any studio with higher ratio than this should be considered above average.

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1). KYOTO ANIMATION

Proficiency percentage: 60% (6/10) – 1 listed for every 1.6 produced

Listed anime: Clannad, FMP: Fumoffu!, Clannad -After Story-, Kanon 2006, Lucky Star, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Other anime: K-ON!, Sora o Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai, FMP: Second Raid, Air TV

Comment: Very low number of series produced compared to other major studios (ranked 26th in total anime series produced) but dominate the list in term of sheer quality of the outputs. The studio have released FMA Fumoffu as their first series this decade and have been releasing about 1-2 series per year since. It is also definitely riding the moe wave of K-ON! and Haruhi at the moment!

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