DIMSDRIVE Research:Most Touching Manga

DIMSDRIVE Research make a survey as part of their 138th Ranking Research into what manga made one cry and what manga would one recommend to others will be of interest. This pair of ranking surveys is taken during 27th of March and the 3rd of April 2008. 6,399 members of the DIMSDRIVE Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.8% of the sample was female, 1.4% in their teens, 16.5% in their twenties, 36.0% in their thirties, 28.1% in their forties, 12.6% in their fifties, and 5.4% aged sixty or older. Note that they are explicitly referring to books/ manga here, not TV/ anime or movie adaptations or original stories.

Ranking results

Q1: What manga that you have read has made you cry? (Sample size=6,399, free answer)


Q2: What manga would you recommend to others? (Sample size=6,399, free answer)



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