Pafu Annual Best Rankings 1996-2005

[insaneneko]

I was searching for a particular issue of Pafu when I discovered that I actually have been subscribing to the magazine for far longer than I thought. Because I was irritated that I couldn't find the issue I wanted, I decided (in what I can only call a fit of utter madness) to type up best ranking survey data for all the years I have. Turns out that's TEN years worth. I input best manga series, anime, characters (some years split male/female, some years combined), combination/partners, and (if available) voice actor. I'm not sure what the demographic of the Pafu readership is or how it's changed over the years, but it was still pretty interesting stuff. Besides the obvious correlation between best characters coming from best series and best series/characters coming from best anime, seeing how some series/characters endured on the rankings was fascinating. Seeing beloved series mentioned made me want to dig them up and read them again (Hoshin Engi! Oh how I love that manga...too bad the anime sucked so badly). There are probably numerous mistakes because I foolishly did this late last night and after several hours I was dragging. Also, having to look up readings for names/series I didn't know was very troublesome. :P

I played with the formatting a bit and realized the easiest for me to create and read was to just use Excel's save as webpage function. Hope it works out for other people:

the rankings

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[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

*laughs* If you mean "angsty and painful and heart-wrenching" when you say "best?" Oh yeah.