Comments on: Otaku Diaries Part 1: Lies, damn lies, and statistics

By: Ink

Ink — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:36:55 +0000

Huzzah for a most excellent and thorough start! Definitely will be interested to read what follows. And hooray for the “2D Only” section of the sexual orientation chart *lol*.

By: Lawrence Eng

Lawrence Eng — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:38:56 +0000

It’s an awesome thing you’re doing here.

When I spent time (several years ago) talking with anime fans of all types, I found the experience to be eye-opening and inspiring.

I really look forward to hearing the personal stories you collected!

By: Stringed

Stringed — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:05:27 +0000

I’m surprised by the gender ratio myself. Were this taking place 5+ or so years ago, I would find it perfectly normal, but the amout of female otaku has increased over the years, so the numbers being that drastically far apart surprised me. Also the overwhelming number of heterosexuals kinda surprised me at first, then I looked at the fact that there were so many more males answering the survey, and, in my experience, guys tend to have a harder time admitting that they like other guys than girls do admitting they like other girls, even anonymously.

By: reversethieves

reversethieves — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:19:28 +0000

@Rob Lantz

Unless tragedy strikes one or both of us we should be attending Otakon and New York Anime Festival this year. I don’t think that either of us had planned to attend any other anime cons or other cons for that matter. I can’t say would would not be interested in going to other cons but neither of us is rolling in the cash.

If we are attending any cons we usually throw any such events in the events section at least 2 weeks to a month in advance.

- Hisui

By: Rob Lantz

Rob Lantz — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:06:59 +0000

Interesting results already…I can’t wait to see how this turns out.
As much as I understand why, once a month is gonna KILL me waiting for more….

One question though is will the ‘Thieves’ be going to any conventions in the coming months and will it be possible to meet with them?

R.L.

By: reversethieves

reversethieves — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:43:24 +0000

The schedule is once a month. At this point that isn’t going to change for a number of reasons. First being that we have time sensitive posts, especially during the con season, that cannot wait or would be foolish to push back in favor of this project. Second the data compiling for each post is not mere regurgitation of what was written in the surveys. Each post will have a theme that will cover multiple questions/sections of the survey. Also we won’t be posting about things we didn’t feel have interesting results. So not every question will appear or get its own post. But this takes thought and theory to be thrown around making the posts an undertaking. And last, we just plain don’t want to ONLY write about this project.

It is possible in the fall months when things slow down as far as events go that we may change the format to twice a month. Until then, thanks for your interest in the project.

-Narutaki

By: Vampt Vo

Vampt Vo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:29:12 +0000

Ah, you’re right Daryl. I guess I misread the post. Yeah, so it’s going to be quite a long time before this whole thing is finished, unless each post is incredibly long.

By: Daryl Surat

Daryl Surat — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:11:43 +0000

Is it really “next Monday”? The end of the post says “the first Monday of every month,” which would be August 3rd. If that really is the schedule, this’ll take years to get through! Also, I’ll forget it exists after the 13th.

By: Vampt Vo

Vampt Vo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:33:45 +0000

Argh, now you’ve hooked me and left me with a MONSTER of a cliffhanger! I’m very interested to see what you’ve come up with. Next Monday couldn’t come soon enough.

By: TheBigN

TheBigN — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:21:29 +0000

I do wonder if there were any expectations on how many people you wanted to see participate, or things like that.