I was looking at the gender differences in anime preferences and I was trying to look for “hidden gems” that men or women like significantly more than the expectations suggest (sorry non-binary people it's hard to find data on your preferences)

I took the 25 most popular shows for each group, and graphed them by 2 factors

Popularity as percentage female
Female rating-male rating

Now originally I did a linear regression on these 2 points, however upon seeing that the linear regression was expecting >100% male konusuba I knew I needed a small adjustment.

The small adjustment is popularity by % female is now represented by Tan(pi*percent female -Pi/2)

This transformation means that you need to have infinite female-male rating in order to be 100% female (or negative infinity to have 100% male)

Linear version

Tangent version

Note that the correlation coefficient of ..81 (linear or .85 (tangent) is extremely high making it extremely likely that factor(s) that mediates both rating and interest is in play. .85 is almost an unheard of strength of correlation. With notable rare exceptions (which is the main topic of the post) if a show is said to be “for girls” or “for boys” The correlation suggests that your initial assessment is almost always correct. Shows like Black butler or Re:Zero are stereotyped correctly. But see below for counterexamples

This chart shows the error terms of all 34 shows. The ones on the far left are “underrated for men” and the ones on the right are “underrated for women”

For men the most notable outlier is From me to you. If you look at the linear regression it’s the dot way out in the middle of nowhere far below the line. It’s also visible in the tangent regression and is the single biggest outlier in general. It’s such a massive outlier that it dwarfs the importance of basically all the other outliers combined The other outliers from the male direction (high school of the dead angel beats steins gate) were already predominantly male just less male dominated than the regression expected not the type of shows I’m looking for, but there were 2 shows that were mixed male with higher error terms Anohana and Madoka magica. Which were more female than the median

The outlier group for women is bigger but less skewed. There are about 7 major shows that had notable error terms. The most notable one was Blue Exorcist. While Tokyo Ghoul, Naruto and Attack on Titan make up the other 3 big jumps before the drop into Akame ga kill noragami and my hero academia.

However if we look at the cardinals of some of these, I would definitely rec Attack on titan Blue exorcist Tokyo Ghoul and Noragami well before reccing the other 3. While Naruto had a high difference (similar to attack on titan) it had a low average score. My hero academia and Akame Ga Kill were also still rated as “not popular with women” they were just less unpopular than expected.

TLDR

Even though in general anime taste and anime that people choose to watch are extremely well correlated there are a few outliers worth checking out.

If you’re an open minded man check out From Me to you you’ll probably be impressed.

If you’re an open minded woman try Blue Exorcist, Tokyo Ghoul and Noragami. Those 3 and especially Blue exorcist are much more likely to appeal to you than marketing suggests.

Theme "Kicked out of the party" is in recent years in my opinion a little overused, MC is always good person and his former party is jerks. I'm currious if there is any anime or mange where MC is kicked out the party because he was a bad person? Like he was good in his role in the party, but maybe getts in the fight with the rest of the team. Or he had secret romance with partner of hero, cheating behind his back. Or do something evil or illegal and has to face consequences?

It is pretty boring for me, that in almost every type of this stories MC is never in wrong, it is always fault of the former party.

Episode 26: Pinnacle of Magic

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Questions for the day:

1) Numerical advantage or sheer power can help here? Or maybe both?

2) Übel's imaginary cut skill, how dangerous is? And how strong as an armor-piercing skill?

3) Killing that dude in the exam, was an intentional move or just an accident?

4) Frieren not fighting in 1-on-1 is the true weakness of her? Is that makes her wide open to attacks from the back?

5) The Spiegel creating almost-perfect and strong replicas, this what makes up of its weakness?

6) How difficult that dungeon was?

7) How did one mimic mixed up in the hoarded treasure?

8) Rate the second exam

9) First or second exam?

10) How dark and scary inside of a chest mimic can be?

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Highlights from yesterday:

1) u/JustAnswerAQuestion thinks this is a heavy metal series:

I think this show uses more umlauts on average than actual German.

2) Why is Serie is kinda strange to everyone, and this is u/xbolt90's answer:

Serie, the world's oldest tsundere.

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