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NEWS: Yuri!!! on Ice Anime's 1st BD Volume Ranks #2 on Overall Weekly BD Chart

Personally, I would say Madoka is aimed at magical girl fans if I was reccomending it to people.

The first two didn't, which is why its up in the air for people. Osomatsu-san is an adaption of a popular shounen manga from the 1960s, though. The manga you linked to actually came after the anime and wasn't the basis for the show.

Stuart Smith wrote:

Personally, I would say Madoka is aimed at magical girl fans if I was reccomending it to people.

And what would you say the gender breakdown of the "magical girl fanbase" is?

It's a good question, but demograph labels aren't that in depth. Shounen, shoujo, and their older varients simply just mean they're aimed at boys and girls. There's no underlying qualification like shoujo requiring it not be popular with guys or anything. As far as shoujo/josei sports go, they exist. Chihayafuru is one of the more popular ones, but the thing is fujoshi are different from normal women. Chihayafuru wouldn't appeal to them because of the presence of a main female lead. Fujoshi specifically want guy characters for BL undertones. Since shounen manga usually has mostly male characters, it's a natural attraction.

Why arent series in the vein of Haikyuu and Kuroko in shoujo magazines? They probably wouldn't sell that well. Goes back to the whole normal girl VS fujoshi thing. Most little girls aren't into that stuff, they are into romance and drama, not hot blooded sports.

-Stuart Smith

I'm very curious about this myself. There was a lot of talk about it shifting very heavily toward the male audience in the mid to late 2000s, but I feel like we've seen a pretty significant swing back toward the female audience in the last half decade or so(as has honestly been the case with a lot of genres within the medium. The purchasing power of women is impressive!). I've been told Madoka is actually pretty popular with women, and know several who are huge fans of it as well, but have no idea what the demographic breakdown of it is. Just a blind guess, I'd say probably not that far from 50/50 or 60/40 guys/girls. With the overall market for magical girls probably being something like 40/60 guys/girls. Possibly much higher, but's hard to know how big the young girl audience of PreCure and Aikatsu is, since they aren't particularly active on social media, of course. lol. But anyway, not trying to make a statement about purchasing power or discredit anyone, as I've said before, I just find the numbers interesting, and these are just my impressions based on the numbers and fandom breakdown that I've come across.

Ah, see? Madoka is definitely for otaku but we have absolutely no way of knowing if Yuri on Ice was aimed at women and in fact it was most likely aimed at and bought by men. Any statistics you might provide to show otherwise (like, say the Niconico Anime of the Year poll that had 300k+ voters and had Yuri on Ice top the women's list while not even appearing on the men's top ten) are meaningless

it was most likely aimed at and bought by men

Please don't use social media to judge something. Most people don't use it and those that do tend to echo chamber horribly.

I don't want to read 5 pages of bickering, but did they release a gender breakdown of the sales yet? Seems like that'd be easy enough to solve the argument.