How many otaku in the world

Additionally, Tencent invested millions of dollars in Bilibili , an anime niche website. Bilibili is now working with Tencent to produce 20 domestic anime series over the next few years. This memorable phrase is beloved by the Chinese people. The young Chinese fans were cosplaying a number of their favorite anime characters. Shuichi Ikeda, the voice actor of the iconic Gundam character Char Aznable was also in attendance.

Being at odds with Japan for decades, China has actually found a piece of Japanese culture and transformed it into their own special subculture. Most fans would go as far as to think that the otaku culture is only a western and eastern world affair. This is a big misconception as otaku in Europe are as enthusiastic as the rest. Especially in France, the otaku culture has come a long way.

According to French magazine Manga Mag , In estimation, manga sales in France rank near the highest around the world, even higher than manga sales in the U. The beautiful European country is also the home of the biggest anime convention in the world sans Japan , Japan Expo. Japan Expo is based in Paris and began in with about 3, visitors. Being one of the most well attended Japanese culture conventions in the world, Japan Expo is visited by people from all over the globe.

It is probably the de-facto premier European anime and manga convention, garnering attendees from places like Germany and Turkey. This just goes to show that otaku culture has become just another reason to visit Paris, besides the Eiffel Tower anyway.

More importantly, in an interview by Asian Beat , Thomas Sirdey, the vice president of Japan Expo, commented on the inception of the convention, while commenting on his own reflections on Japanese culture that is obviously mirrored throughout France. Prior to this, we had been individually creating and organizing our own Japanese pop culture events, and as my knowledge about Japan grew, I realized that it was not only manga and anime that this country had to offer.

Rather, I feel that manga and anime is a gateway to Japanese culture and everyday life. Given the rising attendance figures at anime conventions here in the US, comparing to attendance figures from the two? It's almost impossible to get any kind of accurate assessment as to how many otaku are out there, in either country.

Nobody is ever asked to definitively state whether or not they are one, and there are varying degrees of being a fan of anime and manga. Almost everyone in Japan would probably qualify as a "fringe fan", since there are always a smattering of shows that have entered the cultural zeitgeist; and of course, nearly everyone reads manga.

What's far more rare is the hardcore otaku , the ones that buy a ton of expensive DVDs every month, draw doujinshi , and watch current late-night anime series.

Estimates put these hardest-of-hardcore fans at around ten to twenty thousand. And after that, there are shades of gray. What do you call someone who doesn't pay attention to current shows, but will hear about good ones after the fact, rent them, and buy a few model kits every year?

Or someone who only cares about Gundam? American fans are even harder to count. Despite being late night, Toonami regularly counts more than a million viewers for some of its shows. But we simply have no good way of counting the hardest of hardcore fans. Attendance numbers from conventions are no help at all.

While gigantic events like Comiket will bring in a half million people on paper, it's so different from an American anime convention that it's all but pointless to compare them.

Comiket doesn't require any registration from attendees, and only takes a rough attendance count every day -- people who come multiple days are counted multiple times. The event itself is really a giant nerd bazaar, meant specifically for promotion and selling stuff both fan-made and professional and not much else.

The two annual Comiket events and AnimeJapan are really the only two large-scale expositions for otaku culture, but there are plenty of small promotional events throughout the year, particularly in Akihabara.

But none of those events is like an American convention, which is an all-encompassing weekend away, with lots to do and time spent with friends. Consequently, people attend for different reasons, in different ways. Plus, there are so many anime conventions in North America that it's hard to come up with a grand total.

One metric that does seem fair, though, is DVD sales. While there is no average, most anime will sell at least a couple thousand units in North America, and many go far beyond that -- a decent hit show with mainstream exposure could even break the 50, unit mark although that's pretty rare. Only the most super, super mainstream stuff will crack , units sold.

Adding 4. Much nicer. Ricequake said: lots of words and maths. Ricequake said: xDrayken said: Congratulations, you just passed elementary school maths.

What a number you have there, but maybe you're right on that calculation. Ryugen said: tikkari said: alot. Forum said: Members: 2,, ThisNameSucks said: Forum said: Members: 2,, Ok but those statitics does not include people who have anime as a hobbie and aren't bronies or trollies or whatever the fuck there is, also if we count the massive amount of people who watch dragonball z and all the stuff that airs on tv it could change the statistics by a lot. I once researched on the number of anime fans on Facebook, using Facebook ads.

This is something you can try too. It is not really accurate you can't target China nobody uses fb in China and not a lot of people uses FB in Japan also.

We design modern and fashionable anime T-shirts you'd love to wear on a day out. Come check us out! All worship the great Tatsuya-nii-sama. Kronie said: Only those who are lost and empty seek guidance and fulfillment. I juts finished after going to each house in the world I was the brown guy with green shirt with pink shorts and white sneakers It was Chepri said: Ricequake said: xDrayken said: Congratulations, you just passed elementary school maths.

Basically what I did was 1 Include "Anime", "Cosplay" and "Otaku" in the interests targeting 2 Put a country at a time into the country targeting section.

Ricequake said: kikohunter said: Ok but those statitics does not include people who have anime as a hobbie and aren't bronies or trollies or whatever the fuck there is, also if we count the massive amount of people who watch dragonball z and all the stuff that airs on tv it could change the statistics by a lot.

I guess we have a fundamental different point of view regarding what Algebra actually is. This is an interesting topic and I dont want to ignore what you've said so far, but 20 million in america seems a bit far fetched. However, I believe the range you specified is about right, considering all the other countries in the world. Okay, this just in from Facebook.

Here are the numbers of people who show interest in the following "Interests" according to Facebook. Holy freaking crap. That sounds like a lot but it isn't really since there are over a billion humans on the planet. How do animals get their privacy? Ricequake said: Actually, it's much less than one million in Japan. A lot of people assume the largest market is in Japan, but in reality that's not the case: Japan has pretty much no people lol.

The statistic you're thinking of includes idol otakus, computer otakus, scifi otakus, etc. Not just what we think is "otaku" here. Ricequake said: Okay, this just in from Facebook. Like a lot of people, I dont really go around openly telling everyone how much I love anime, and I rarely buy anime related stuff, so it's safe to say that there are plenty of "fans" around the world that aren't represented in sales figures, polls, whatever facebook stats, or such.

Guaporense said: Ricequake said: Actually, it's much less than one million in Japan. The number of Anime fans in the US in proportion to the population is lower than in other countries and certainly much lower than in Japan. Though as I said before, in the US the population who watches anime is either: 1 - hardcore fans or 2- never watch any of it.

Other countries have it different. Watching Miyazaki's films is like watching James Cameron or Steven Spielberg films in the US 3 out of the 5 highest grossing films in Japanese history are anime, 14 out of the 30 highest grossing films in Japan from are anime and 8 out of the 16 highest grossing live action films in Japan are based on a manga or anime series.

Manga represents the largest single element of contemporary Japanese culture, more manga is read in Japan than novels. As Miyazaki said, manga is the starting point of Japanese popular culture. Anime and live action films and TV in Japan are mostly based on manga.

So it's very problematic to establish a number for Japanese anime fans since anime there is a continuum: most people watch a little of anime and a few are hardcore fans. In Brazil there are anime fans and there are people who watch anime from time to time and people who watched a ton of anime in their childhood but never watched any afterwards.

So it's complicated to classify it. Most anime fans outside of Japan are in China and Korea and Taiwan also look like places for highest density of anime fans in the population. Comics written in Korea and Taiwan are identical to manga, in fact, many people confuse Korean and Taiwanese comics with manga. Guaporense said: Ricequake said: Okay, this just in from Facebook.

I have a YouTube channel of naruto amvs and fights. I upload daily videos, please visit my channel. Ricequake Offline Joined: Oct Posts: Crafty Offline Joined: Jun Posts: What in the.. I assume you're asking for a detailed mathematical explanation? Ryugen Offline Joined: May Posts: Congratulations, you just earned your master's degree in sarcasm.

Also, that's high school mathematics. Get your grade levels straight. Elementary kids look at me like I'm an alien when I try to teach them algebra, and most kids aren't taught algebra in middle school sadly. BBCode Seals swim in salt water because pepper water makes them sneeze. Wow more or less zeros, whatever. Most of the guys is just trolling it.

I ain't. I mean, with that kind of information we can actually know some relevant things. Or at least guessing something more real, with more accuracy, than a shit guess, what people do most of the time.

Also i consider these kind of data important to know. Lot of them don't believe in ranks, like the one in MAL. About your question i think it's around million. Yeah, I'm always interested about the number of members of a fandom, how they overlap with other fandoms, and so on.

With information like that, you can find out very interesting things. A lot of people assume the largest market is in Japan, but in reality that's not the case: Japan has pretty much no people lol The statistic you're thinking of includes idol otakus, computer otakus, scifi otakus, etc. Chepri Offline Joined: Jun Posts: I don't know any country, in which you learn Algebra at school.

In my country you have to go to the university and it is also recommended that you have already taken 4 lectures before that. Imo that is not necessary, but nobody cares about that. What a number you have there, but maybe you're right on that calculation BBCode.

Ryugen said: tikkari said: alot haha BBCode. Forum said: Members: 2,, BBCode. Zefyris Offline Joined: Apr Posts: Seems extremely exaggerated. BBCode The anime industry is dead, the otaku fanbase killed it. Samurnor Offline Joined: Nov Posts: Shouldn't just 'anime' be enough?