Are there more female fans or more male fans of anime?

Probably more men, but women aren't a tiny minority. I'd say 70/30 with the difference steadily decreasing. People underestimate the amount of women that stay mostly in female-dominated anime communities, even while discussing shounen and seinen anime. And there's also a lot of women that aren't noticed in general online comunities because they either hide their gender or people just assume they are men.

@Sen1793 lol no. Gamefaqs was almost entirely men. Anonymous polls had it 90+ percentile men back in the day. With like 50000 voters lol.

Your question can be answered by computing the ratio of male:female demographic entries.

Male = 3200 (82.6%)
Female = 674 (17.4%)

M:F = 4.75:1

@Zarutaku that's an irrelevant statistic. shoujo and josei are inherently less diverse in their genres, so there are just fewer works. not to mention that there is plenty of anime that has no listed demographics since it only applies to anime based on manga.

besides, according to Jump's own statistics, 40% of WSJ readers are female. there are probably more girls reading WSJ than some of the more popular Shoujo magazine.

It's easily closer to 50/50 than some of you brainrot incels like to admit

It's mostly men, women are more interested in real life.

I believe male anime fans have been always more numerous than female ones, hence we get more shonen and seinen anime than shoujo and josei ones in comparison.

The woke feminists have taken over everything else lol.The last bation for males.

There are probably more male fans than female fans, but it's not by too much. It's probably around a 60/40 ratio. It may even be more towards women on ecchi stuff, especially with the extreme things like Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi. More women than men watched it while it was airing.

Every single anime puritan I've met in real life has been a straight white man. I've never met women in real life who are opposed to fanservice.

@Zarutaku that's an irrelevant statistic. shoujo and josei are inherently less diverse in their genres, so there are just fewer works. not to mention that there is plenty of anime that has no listed demographics since it only applies to anime based on manga.

besides, according to Jump's own statistics, 40% of WSJ readers are female. there are probably more girls reading WSJ than some of the more popular Shoujo magazine.

Anime has a 70%-80% male fanbase while the 20%-30% female fanbase are predominant for the most part in male idol, shoujo, BL, reverse harem and series with bishounen male cast. Since they lack a predominant male fanbase [at most gay and bi male Anime fans are into such series but we also has very similar taste to other male Anime fans], such genres are not popular among the Anime community.

Also like they say above, women are more interesed in real life than men. That's why its more common for most men to be introduced into escapist stuff early like games and Anime unlike most women.

@Flick_on in my experience, everyone who use the word "incel", specially for no fucking reason like that, is the perfect description of one

@DarkCy The responses to this thread clearly fit this mentality, so yeah

@Rinrinka I wish more and more women should would watch more anime.

@RainyEvenings
Ah is that so? Why? I suppose you want to see more anime targeted for women? :)

@Flick_on you are falsely calling incel to everyone who claim the Anime community is mostly male when we have statistics and knowledge about the community which support such comment unlike you. Claiming the Anime fanbase is 50/50 without proof and insulting most of us at the same time is not ok. It seems you have an issue with the Anime fanbase being predominantly male. I like BL and male idol series but I don't care if most of their fans are female nor I insult the fanbase for being predominantly female.

@ToumaTachibana
Again, based on some of the responses here calling anime-fans incels is not wrong. I'm also not saying every single anime fan is an incel. It's mentality in essentializing behaviours, not naming names @ecchigodmamster
@Foxsurprise posted a chart which outlines certain data who align with what i said. I never said that it's 50/50 i said that it's closer to that
than to what you think is complete sausagefest. (based on experience of fucking forum posting (MAL is not a signifikant portion of animanga community) where have you seen 75/25?) You also have no proof that it's close to your percentage points.

You have idiots like @zarutaku here bringing up how many shonen (lol) anime are made, something completely irrelevant since anime don't have manga demographics or even align with them. even when corrected he still insists because he's a dumbass

@Flick_on said "anime don't have manga demographics or even align with them"

Imagine saying this and thinking you are right.

You’re talking to one right now :>

I’ve watched hundreds of anime and so does another mal friend of mine, so yeah, we exist.

As for dramas, I’ve only seen a few, but I do plan to see some in the future.

Overall I think it's about pretty close to even, with a lean toward men. The ratio changes up depending on which show's fandom, and which corner of the fandom you look though.
Anecdotally: I mostly hung out in the creative (fanfic, Fanart, Cosplay, Roleplay) or shipping circles traditionally, so most fans I've been around were women. While here on MAL, I def notice this place is a sausage fest. IRL at cons, It feels about 50/50, BUT I notice a majority of the Panels I attend, and Artist alley booths in general, are lead by a lot more women or nonbinary folks then men.

Nah, some guys would be weird regardless... Also, if you reveal yourself to not be creepy, girls are more open to speaking on games. I've played several games with a form of chat: Final Fantasy 14, Friday the 13th, Paladins, Smite, and Fortnite. I've met other girls on those games. My brother played Overwatch and he's met a lot of girls. The girls that we were friends with played games. I've seen a lot of girls play games such as: Sims, Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, Infinity Nikki, Borderlands, Valorant, Overwatch, Fortnite, Apex Legends, Minecraft, Genshin Impact, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Zelda, Pokemon, Persona, Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft, Dota, Life is Strange, Elder Scrolls, The Witcher 3, etc. A lot of girls play on PC or Nintendo consoles from my experience.



Imma be honest, if you rarely run into girls that game or watch anime, then they're specifically hiding it from you. I've seen a lot of girls who game and watch anime. In real life and online.