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ANN 2015 Survey Feedback

I would like to see ANN in some other languages, such as French and Spanish.

I believe you guys are doing an amazing job to keep everyone up to date with many kinds of news from the world of anime, manga, and related stuff in Japan, and although I prefer reading in English, making the ANN articles available in more languages would be great for many people who are either lazy or don't understand english. Thanks to the quality ANN has, it would spread like wildfire, and in due time it would be nice to include articles aimed at those territories (releases in France, Spain, etc.).

It would also be nice to have articles that compare different editions of anime and manga, such as the Japanese Blu-ray vs the NA Blu-ray and the like.

1. On the Topic of AdBlock: I think there should be something saying "please don't block ads". Kind of generic, but I wasn't even aware that ANN ran ads until this survey, and I bet there are other people that use AdBlock and don't know. Most people download it and forget about it, so something asking to turn it off might alert people that they should turn it off (which I am promptly doing in response).

Re: ad-block and premium memberships.
I think a lot of people who use ad-block do so for the same reason I got a premium membership. Sometimes ads can be so intrusive and/or distracting that it can be an unpleasant experience to even visit a site.

but the main reason I use AdBlock for ANN are none of the above. I primarily use it to block the many offensive female T&A pictures on your site. Therefore I have to use it pretty much every time I visit... which is not as often as it could be, since anticipating pictures of grotesque 3D boobs or panty shots makes me rather ill. It wouldn't bother me as much if you did equal time/objectification treatment for male charas, but neither you nor the anime industry does so, so there we are. But, say, if there were to be some kind of subscription option that automatically blocked such pictures or only showed pictures of males, I'd gladly pay for that! Yeah, right, like that'll ever happen... (It's amazing I'm still an anime fan after all that, isn't it? *sighs*)
So let the flaming begin!

Outside of anime and manga and other Japanese culture related interests, what are your other favorite hobbies / activities / interests

lebrel wrote:

Regarding the mechanics of the site, the major thing that bugs me is the advertising skins that make the entire right and left edges of the screen into clickable links; if you have multiple browser windows open and want to shift focus back to the window with ANN, you have to be very careful about how you click on it or you will end up connecting to the advertiser's site rather than just foregrounding the window. I don't know how hard it would be to make the "live" part of these skins restricted to the images, rather than have it run all the way down?

I also would like less of the ad skin area to be active links too.. however, the current ad skins are not fully active either, only the upper half. If you scroll down to the blank areas, you can safely click there to switch windows.

Maybe it varies by platform then? Because this isn't true for me (Firefox on Mac); if the background goes all the way down the screen then the live area does too (for example, the current Funimation "dream girl" ad; the entire pink area on either side is a live link, even though the product images go only a short distance down).

i think you guys /gals are doing a great job
upgrades i would love to see
1) an additional choice in the encyclopedia / on the search for titles by genre page of ( japanese / with sub titles) OR (DUBBED in english) i understand that newer titles change from sub to dub (sometimes within months ) but with time this could be dealt with.

another option would be to just have a system of (S) for sub (D) for dubbed and (HYB) for hybrids
right with the titles on the search results pages
(and maybe even the other languages the titles have been translated to)

2) For A.N.N. to be a bit more pro active in letting the anime companies know which titles Dub LOVERS would be interested in seeing / buying

or better yet a monthly pole of those who would buy/ watch on streaming (said title) if it were dubbed.
BUUUUUT with the added option for buyers of wether it be Standard / LE or Collectors edition that they would buy....

and taken a step further which OP or license rescue titles that folks would be willing to buy if a dubbed version created (especially if said title were being prepared for re-release)

I myself would even be into pre-paying for titles i would like to own dubbed ...so it could take some of the risk factor out of dubbing some titles ( For new releases this is mainly directed at Sentai ... i cringe now every time i read of them licensing a title i was hoping Funimation would get for Sentai only seems to dub about 40% of their new acquisitions )(For older releases it could mean a new lease on life such as City Hunter and Your Under Arrest Season 234
etc.

And take the results from the polls and get them into Licensing companies hands