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Thu 5 Apr 2012
The People Behind the Anime Power Rankings
Posted by kevo' under Anime Power Rankings, Blogs
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Ok, it's not THAT kind of secret...
For as long as the Anime Power Rankings have been around, I have more or less kept the roster of voters as a carefully guarded secret. Sure, people would naturally figure out some specific people (like people who post their votes up, comment about their choices, or are quoted from their ballot), but the full scale of the operation was shrouded in mystery. I would like the reason for the secrecy to be creating an air of mystique around the “anime Illuminati”, but it was mainly because the roster was embarrassingly short in the early days. It’s been a few seasons now, and I figure people would like to explore some new anime blogs. I also gave all the bloggers a short demographic survey, whose results I’ll share in this post as well.
So prepare yourselves! For the first time in history: the identities of the people behind the Anime Power Rankings.
*Indicates primary affiliation. Some voters may participate in multiple blogs and websites.
The above list does not reflect changes this week for the upcoming spring season (10+ new bloggers invited, up to 5 leaving).
These 55 people are polled every weekend for their favorite anime that week, and I collect the results into a big spreadsheet and post them every Sunday for you guys to consume! That’s basically how the sausage is made. Of the 55 voters, 45 responded to the demographics survey.
Predictably, the Anime Power Rankings (and the aniblogging community in general, let’s be honest) is kind of a sausage-fest. I know there are lots of female anibloggers out there, I just have to know where to look. Apparently, I should look in Canada — Canada’s three female APR participants account for 38% of the total APR female population. Even though the United States has more than double Canada’s representation in the polls, there are only two female voters from the US.
Survey respondents hail from thirteen different countries and three different continents global regions …FIFA confederations are represented (dang you Australia).
I wouldn’t mind expanding the worldview of the Anime Power Rankings, but my primary focus is to capture the general feeling of the English-speaking aniblogosphere (oh gosh that word sounds silly). As the new season begins this week, I thought I’d just share some information on who participates in this fun little pet-project I occupy myself with. Do you own or regularly write for an anime blog? Do you know someone who does? Send them my way! Interested individuals should contact animepowerrankings at gmail dot com.
Now I got more blogs to stalk/lurk!
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Hi kevo,
You neglected to mention one of the most important statistics regarding the APR. So I prepared this helpful chart for the benefit of your readers:
http://blog.draggle.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/apr.png
Hope this helps!
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kevo' Reply:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
psgels, in case you’re curious.
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It’s an interesting lineup we have here. I only know about half to a third of these bloggers, and I’ll definitely have check out the rest of these guys.
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Kevo, why are you so Kevo?!
Do you know we may end up against each other in the tourney if we survive long enough? We need more love!
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feal87 Reply:
April 5th, 2012 at 5:15 am
Oh by the way. It’s “feal”, not “feel”.
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kevo' Reply:
April 5th, 2012 at 8:06 am
I know! Our group is kinda hard. Good luck, though! You can do it.
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Wow looks like I’m the only SA representative here! *implying that I expected otherwise lol*
Also, a ready list for blog-hunt is very much appreciated. :3
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A rare seeing female bloggers in the sphere tsk tsk what a shame!
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Kyokai Reply:
April 7th, 2012 at 6:19 am
Now I’m thinking to send my female entourage of Meta to rule APR. Mwahahaa~
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kevo' Reply:
April 7th, 2012 at 9:22 am
They are taking over!!!
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Hmmm guess I’m a very rare breed being a European female animeblogger!
I knew of most of the blogs listes, but there are few that are new to me – good to know!
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Hahaha… Ryou Akizuki. People might not realize this, but he is a…
Aside from that, it’s interesting to see that there is only a small number of female bloggers actually exist in the voting… I wish there were more so we can have a anime blogosphere harem of some kind.
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kevo' Reply:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Right now the aniblogosphere seems to be a shoujo reverse harem anime. ~4-5 men for every lucky girl!
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I am the lone Swede, huh? I had hoped for one more. We got our share deal of fans.
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kevo' Reply:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
If you KNOW more, send them my way!
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Marow Reply:
April 6th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Now you got me all interested. I’m doing a creating a search party. There must be some other blog out there. I cannot be the last of my race! I cannot allow us to go extinct!
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I stopped receiving the emails after a while so I assumed I was kicked out. I was right…
Is it too late to ask to sign up again? Now that I’ve got more time for anime anyway.
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kevo' Reply:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
You’re always welcome back, Valence <4
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Oh, now I feel sorry that I missed all the fun.
I also wonder. Did you have the record of each participant’s choice of anime?
If so, you can do further analysis based on the bloggers’ basic info…that could be interesting.
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Heya kevo,
I wanted to say “Thanks” for leaving my Blog on your Roll (as it were): I thought that since I had to (temporarily) step back from weekly voting that you may have dropped it off.
Please leave a space in the contributors for me, if my unconventional and “non-elite” opinions matter to you and/or your Readers
I’ve been WAY too busy prepping my novel for (hopeful) publication soon to even catch *any* new shows, although I did wrap up the Winter season (waiting on Mirai Nikki) ^^.
Got a list of twelve Spring shows to check out though, will probably pick eight out to follow.
Looking forward to re-joining the action; hopefully by the Summer season. I’m spending Spring in “Write-or-Die” mode and would rather not die, ‘kay?
All the best
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I’ve been seeing these posts every once in awhile in Anime Nano. So this is what it is, voting for your current favorite anime. I wish I could join in on the fun, though.
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