Favorite Magical Girl Anime Rankings - Oricon Survey

[Jigen_Daisuke]

Between June 30, 2006 and July 3, 2006, Oricon (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Oricon) surveyed via the Internet a total of 400 people in their teens and twenties on what their favorite magical girl anime is.

Below are the results of Oricon's Onnanoko ga Henshinshite Katsuyakusuru Sukina Rankingu. (http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/ranking/29386/)

Overall Favorite Magical Girl Anime
1st Place - Sailormoon / Sailor Moon (Seeraamuun)
2nd Place - Cutie Honey / Cutey Honey (Kyuutii Hanii)
3rd Place - Futari wa Pretty Cure (Futari ha Purikyua)
4th Place - Himitsu no Akko-chan
5th Place - Magical Witch Sally / Sally the Witch (Mahoutsukai Sarii)
6th Place - Ojamajo Doremi
6th Place - Creamy Mami (Kuriimii Mami)
8th Place - Cardcaptor Sakura (Kaadokyaputaa Sakura)
8th Place - Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (Mahou Shoujo Ririkaru Nanoha)
10th Place - Magic Knight Rayearth (Majikko Naito Reiaasu)

Favorite Magical Girl Anime of Females
1st Place - Sailormoon / Sailor Moon
2nd Place - Cutie Honey / Cutey Honey
3rd Place - Futari wa Pretty Cure
4th Place - Himitsu no Akko-chan
5th Place - Creamy Mami

Favorite Magical Girl Anime of Males
1st Place - Sailormoon / Sailor Moon
2nd Place - Cutie Honey / Cutey Honey
3rd Place - Futari wa Pretty Cure
4th Place - Magical Witch Sally / Sally the Witch
5th Place - Himitsu no Akko-chan
5th Place - Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

Favorite Magical Girl Anime of Teens
1st Place - Sailormoon / Sailor Moon
2nd Place - Cutie Honey / Cutey Honey
3rd Place - Futari wa Pretty Cure
4th Place - Ojamajo Doremi
5th Place - Himitsu no Akko-chan

Favorite Magical Girl Anime of Twentysomethings
1st Place - Sailormoon / Sailor Moon
2nd Place - Cutie Honey / Cutey Honey
3rd Place - Futari wa Pretty Cure
4th Place - Himitsu no Akko-chan
5th Place - Magical Witch Sally / Sally the Witch

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A total of 400 people.

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[SpoilerHappy]

Interesting. Great to see Nanoha on the top ten list! I'm a little surprised that Pretty Cure is so high (but it is current I guess) and a little disappointed not to see Full Moon.

And that many people many people remember Magical Witch Sally (original from the late '60's and remake around 1990)?

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Interesting. Great to see Nanoha on the top ten list! I'm a little surprised that Pretty Cure is so high (but it is current I guess) and a little disappointed not to see Full Moon.

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I guess most people don't think of Full Moon as a magical girl anime in quite the same way as Nanoha or Sailor Moon or CCS. Personally, I see it as an idol anime first, a romance second, and then a magical girl show, I guess. It has the magical transformations and such, but it's somewhat different from the general concept of "magical girl show". That's probably enough to keep it off most lists, even if it has magical girl elements.

[BluWacky]

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SpoilerHappy said:
Interesting. Great to see Nanoha on the top ten list! I'm a little surprised that Pretty Cure is so high (but it is current I guess) and a little disappointed not to see Full Moon.

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Nanoha is fanboy flavour of the month, and PreCure is one of the highest rating anime shows on the air. Next time one of these surveys comes round I'll be surprised if Nanoha appears.

Full Moon, on the other hand, would have barely registered a blip on the Japanese market; weekend mornings are not prime otaku watching time (Eureka 7 says hello) and it's hardly a well known property; a relatively low budget TV Tokyo shoujo anime based on a short manga by a middle-name mangaka with a band no-one's heard of before or since?

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And that many people many people remember Magical Witch Sally (original from the late '60's and remake around 1990)?

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It's a classic, hence why otaku remember it. It's probably been repeated at some point, too.

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BluWacky said:
Nanoha is fanboy flavour of the month

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And what month would that be? December 2005? Because that's when the *second* season ended, let alone the first. I can see it being temporarily boosted by being a recent show, but it's not like it just concluded last Tuesday.

[Shsway]

CCS in 8th place, with a fairly similar ranking for Sakura-chan in other categories?? Nooooooooo!

[Philemon]

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BluWacky said:
Nanoha is fanboy flavour of the month

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And what month would that be? December 2005? Because that's when the *second* season ended, let alone the first.

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Do not take the idiom literally. What BluWacky is saying is that Nanoha is currently the interest among otaku, it has nothing to do with a certain month.

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Philemon said:
Do not take the idiom literally. What BluWacky is saying is that Nanoha is currently the interest among otaku, it has nothing to do with a certain month.

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Obviously. But it's not a very good idiom to use for a series that began almost two years ago and ended more than half a year ago.

I see a big difference between a show like that being ranked high, and a show that just ended being ranked high.

[LimePie]

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Overall Favorite Magical Girl Anime
6th Place - Ojamajo Doremi

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Favorite Magical Girl Anime of Teens
4th Place - Ojamajo Doremi

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Wai, Doremi! /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif It even beat CCS (which I'm surprised to see ranked so low.)

[EmperorBrandon]

Happy to see Cardcaptor Sakura on list, and good that Sailor Moon is still popular (now if only Toei would allow its relicense). Them being there would be a longshot, but Magical Project S and Princess Tutu need more appreciation, too. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[ohtori_akio]

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EmperorBrandon said:
Happy to see Cardcaptor Sakura on list, and good that Sailor Moon is still popular (now if only Toei would allow its relicense). Them being there would be a longshot, but Magical Project S and Princess Tutu need more appreciation, too. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Agreed and so do Fancy Lala and Utena (if it can be classified as that...)

[TheGreenMan]

Sailor Moon owned everyone. /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif /images/graemlins/devil.gif

[SpoilerHappy]

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disarm said:
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Philemon said:
Do not take the idiom literally. What BluWacky is saying is that Nanoha is currently the interest among otaku, it has nothing to do with a certain month.

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Obviously. But it's not a very good idiom to use for a series that began almost two years ago and ended more than half a year ago.

I see a big difference between a show like that being ranked high, and a show that just ended being ranked high.

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Have to pop in with this - from moetron:

New Nanoha Project in the Works (http://www.moetron.com/2006/07/28/new-nanoha-project-in-the-works/)

(learned of this via Matthew's Anime Blog (http://matthew.animeblogger.net/) )

Bad news is that what exactly the new project is won't be revealed 'til the end of August. Still, maybe there's hope for a third season!

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SpoilerHappy said:
Have to pop in with this - from moetron:
New Nanoha Project in the Works (http://www.moetron.com/2006/07/28/new-nanoha-project-in-the-works/)
(learned of this via Matthew's Anime Blog (http://matthew.animeblogger.net/) )

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!!!!!! YES!!!

Still, I'm going to cry if this is just an OVA. Please, please please let it be a third TV series. PLEASE.

[MrNice]

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disarm said:
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SpoilerHappy said:
Have to pop in with this - from moetron:
New Nanoha Project in the Works (http://www.moetron.com/2006/07/28/new-nanoha-project-in-the-works/)
(learned of this via Matthew's Anime Blog (http://matthew.animeblogger.net/) )

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!!!!!! YES!!!

Still, I'm going to cry if this is just an OVA. Please, please please let it be a third TV series. PLEASE.

[/ QUOTE ]Well whatever it is, let's hope it's enough to keep Nanoha flavour of the month for another year eh /images/graemlins/happy.gif.

[Suwako Moriya]

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Mr. Nice said: Well whatever it is, let's hope it's enough to keep Nanoha flavour of the month for another year eh /images/graemlins/happy.gif.

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I hope it's a tv series and it takes place in the future if people know what I mean. Because while loli-goodness is nice, it's time for teenage goodness. Then maybe adult goodness and nah I'm not going that far. Still in any case maybe the news of this new Nanoha project should be split from this thread and made into its own topic. That way it will be more noticeable.

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Anri Misugi said:
Still in any case maybe the news of this new Nanoha project should be split from this thread and made into its own topic. That way it will be more noticeable.

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Good idea. (http://forums.animeondvd.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=1&Number=1397407&page=0&view= collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=&vc=#Post1397407)