Some of you may recall that back in February I mentioned an interesting project by the Reverse Thieves called the “Otaku Diaries.” The basic premise was that they wanted anime and manga fans to fill out a survey about various aspects of their lives, from age to love life to of course questions about their fandom. As someone who is always interested in information such as this, I participated as well. Well now the Reverse Thieves have finished compiling their data and are ready to discuss the results.
This initial post establishes some statistics and is mainly there to get the ball rolling for future posts about the Otaku Diaries. For the near future, the Reverse Thieves will be devoting the first Monday post every month to discussing the Diaries, and I think there will be a wealth of information to be had.
One thing to point out is something said right in the statistics post: these results are not absolute, and are personal truths instead of absolute ones. Even if the sample size is somewhat small, there’s still a lot that can be learned, and I am eager to see what Hisui and Narutaki have to say about the results.
OGIUE MANIAX 
It actually says “the first Monday of every month” is when they’d be doing the posts, which suggests that this thing will be once a month for the next like, few years.
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Whoops my mistake!
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These findings correlate positively with my own.
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I do hope that when all is done with this, there’s another round of the Otaku Diaries with a bigger, more diverse sample size. Either way, I’m looking forward to the results.
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Thanks for the mention! We are really excited to start doing our posts on the results and stories.
We are tentatively planning to do the surveys again with some changes, etc. after learning so much from this first try.
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