Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24187738-20171007175022

For those who missed it, we recently held a giveaway with a survey for the Aqours Cheerleader badges sold at the SIF Thanksgiving Festival earlier this year.

The winners have already been announced and contacted through Twitter, so without further ado, let's go through the results! We had 1818 entries this time so that's plenty of data to work with!

(For some of the similar questions we'll be comparing data with our earlier Christmas 2015 giveaway as well just to see how the fandom has changed.)

Regarding what fans follow

Something heartwarming we saw here was that there's now a much higher uptake of Live Concerts & Seiyuu content than there used to be 2 years ago! Personally, there is a much greater push of the seiyuus for Aqours than back during μ's times, so this may not be that surprising a development after all. Nevertheless, it is great to see that it has been effective.

Regarding Favourites

Not much changes for the characters of μ's beyond some minor fluctuations, but there's been quite a bit of upheaval for the seiyuus. Pile took a huge plunge in popularity, while Emitsun actually surged with her recent revival, even beyond Jolno. Of course, Mimorin remains the queen of them all.



The characters presented some very interesting data: Yohane surged in rankings even beyond You, which was very surprising as You has always been the top character in popularity. More likely, she may not be the favourite of most, but she is easily added as a second favourite for a lot of people. Overall though, the rankings still remain rather polarized, with the top two girls having more than twice as many fans as that of the lowest ranker.

As for the seiyuus, it's no surprise that Rikyako ranks the highest, with her winning many hearts after Aqours First Live. Shukashuu ranking fourth was a surprising result however, as was King placing second. Something that's nice to see however is that the rankings aren't as polarized, with many people being a fan of all of them.



The Nijigasaki Academy School Idol Club characters still have a long way to go in producing content for people to follow, but it looks like Ai's a clear winner on popularity at the moment- which is painfully ironic as she's placed last in the votings for the past two months. Rina captivates a fair share of hearts of course, with her masked face. We didn't ask about their seiyuus as it was still way too early with zero content from them so far, but that should change soon!

Regarding LLSS Season 1

It looks like the anime was quite well done in building characters, given that almost 2/3 of the respondents actually switched or found an additional best girl. Most people seem to agree that Ruby, Kanan & Dia were shafted the most in Season 1 too, so hopefully we'll see them get more content in Season 2.

Regarding Live Content

1.8% of people watched on site in Saitama, 40/4% went to a LV/DV where they were, 5.7% went out of their country/state to a LV/DV, and an entire 52.1% did not have access to a LV/DV. I know it sounds kind of depressing knowing that half the fandom still doesn't have access, but I just want to remind everyone that only a year ago, it was actually less than 10% who would have access to these in a few select Asian countries. We have come so far in just the past year, and we need to keep working towards bringing these viewings to more and more people.

The live-streams results were also rather surprising to me, with there being a lot more fans than I had personally thought. I had pegged it at about 25% for the first option, but there was actually 40.8% of the fandom who would follow streams religiously.

Regarding Nesoberis

6.9% don't know what nesoberis are, 6.7% don't really care, 51.8% want to get one, 16.1% already own one, 17.3% own multiple and a small 1.3% own complete sets. In other words, nesoberis have almost conquered the fandom, and the last pillar of resistance will likely fall once the new [https://lovelive-puchiguru.jp/ Love Live! Puchiguru game] releases in November. Prepare to worship your neso overlords.

Regarding LLSS Pilgrimages

0.7% have been to Numazu multiple times, 1.8% have been to Numazu once, 58.5% plan to go, 35.6% would consider it, and 2.5% have no interest. There is still a very low uptake on LLSS pilgrimages, which isn't surprising given the costs of going to Japan. Seeing 60% of the fandom planning to go is definitely a good sign however- The town is very important to the girls of Aqours both in the anime and in real life, and it's something that you can only experience on site. For those planning to go, you can always use our Pilgrimage Guide for reference.



This question was intended to see which sites had done the best marketing and which ones could use a bigger push. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if we really have accurate data here as many people may have just pushed the ones that sound like good spots instead of admitting they don't know these places. Take for example, the low ranking of Nagaisaki Junior High School- what one would normally consider a must-visit location for anyone doing a pilgrimage since half the anime takes place within it. Izu-Mito Sea Paradise also placed pretty low, less than half of the votes for Numazu Deep Sea Aquarium, so this question's results are pretty iffy.

Regarding how much LL takes up of your life

2.3% spend >100k yen, 1.4% spend between 50k to 100k yen, while 4.6% spend between 20k to 50k yen.

We asked these questions to see how much fans were committing, and judging by the latter question, it seems like a good 20% of the fandom whale pretty hard on LL contents with more than 10k yen a month. If nothing else, we hope this question made people realise just how much they're spending on LL each month! Supporting your idols is great but please practice financial planning and spend within your means~



It seems most people get their goods through EN sites, which is a pretty big market. It's great that so many sites exist to serve the fandom, though JP exclusives such as special bonus items are still pretty difficult and painful to obtain. Plenty of people rely on their local stores and conventions as well, so just a word of caution- do watch the prices you're paying, especially at conventions. Online shopping is usually a cheaper option, and merchants tend to hike up prices at conventions.

40.7% people have no one in their proximity who's into LL. This is the part where you convert your friends into LLivers as well :^) Anyhow, it seems like about 50% of the respondents actually managed to make RL friends through Love Live!, which is honestly a really great thing to hear! LL has always been a miraculous thing and we hope that it can continue to change and shape lives in its own way.

And that was the results of all the questions we had in the survey! Once again, thank you to everyone who took part, and we hope this data was interesting to you!

 ♪ LuciaHunter ♪  http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/emoticon-bank/images/5/5b/Little_Devil_Emoji.png 17:51, October 7, 2017 (UTC) 