| I think it's 55-45 with men being more but I have no proof |
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| I think it's something like 33% male, 18% female, 49% weeb. |
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| Probably about 50-50 with the female audience being less active as a community. |
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| in my own experience I've never met one female irl or online (outside of this site) who watches anime ...other than my bulldyke cousin renting F3 once back in the mid 90s |
| Most devout anime fans I've met here in Poland were women. |
| Na nieszczęście, żaden śmiertelnik nie jest wolny od jakiegoś dziwactwa. |
| Maybe you should have titled it Gender Ratio and I think it's probably close to 90-10 male to female for lifetime fans. It might be 50/50 among zoomers but most of them will drop it in just a few years once they aren't teenagers anymore. |
| You forgot neutral, androgyn, two spirits, Sylfeon-s, sheep, chairs and electric guitar genres. But I'll assume it's biological. (jokes) More seriously, in conventions can have very family friendly stalls, with parents and children too, that are meant for casuals. I think there are parts of the medium that can appeal to all, without having to rely on excessive romance, boy's love or other shoujo/josei tropes, though having a female-oriented sector is healthy too. Of course, casual female fans will find more appeal in cute Pokemon plushies (don't read it as a stereotype, more like a statistical tendency). It is a nice introduction to anime. That being said, how many women are really into anime and manga? Never enough to me (lol). It's true there are less women, especially online. (There are no girls on the Internet) but it's hard to make a broad stat apart studies such as self-declaration on MAL accounts or sales in specific genres (e.g. shoujo manga). The question you're asking is even harder because of that: what objectively defines a casual fan? That is completely different from genre demographics and studying the subset population of casual fans isn't something I've ever heard being done before. I tend to think there are more girls into cosplay than men though, but maybe it's only a feeling. At least, cosplay is precise enough of a niche that could have some stats into it. |
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| 25% women?! But many of us are old af, so that's ok. I still feel cool. (All genders included.) |
  °:. *₊ ° . ° .• 𝐼𝒻 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁𝓈 𝓂𝑒 𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝒶 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓅𝑒, 𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓃, 𝐼’𝓁𝓁 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎’𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑔. °:. *₊ ° . ° .•  𝚍𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 |
| I saw an article years ago that the ratio is around 60-40 in Japan. Gender ratio is very different in every anime. Apothecary Diaries and Bookworm tend to have more female audience while Mushoku Tense and Roshidere have more male audience. I don't know about overseas fans. My estimation for overseas anime fans is around 75-25. |
| Among hardcore fans avast majority is male probably 95/5. Among more casual watchers 75/25 is my guess. I think men are more likely to pirate while women play it safer. |
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| Probably similar to the sex ratio of virginity. |
*kappa* |
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