One Million Japanese Men Can’t Be Wrong
ComiPress has decidedly NOT taken Labor Day off, and my favorite piece of news today has got to be this: allegedly, over 1 million Japanese men are obsessed with Rei Ayanami. Now, let’s see: there are 127 million people in Japan. Assuming that the gender balance is close to even, that means that there are about 63.5 million men. 1 divided by 63.5 is 0.015, which means…1.5% of Japan is obsessed with Rei Ayanami (assuming no women are)?
Okay, honestly, the author of the column in question claims to believe that one million Japanese men are obsessed with her, and offers no hard facts to back it up. But still, wouldn’t you rather live in a country where 1.5% of men are obsessed with an emo anime character than one where 30% of the population still approves of George W. Bush?
Tags: ayanami-rei, evangelion
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:50 pm
I much prefer Asuka myself. =b
September 4th, 2007 at 6:53 am
You won’t get much support from me there; I have a low tolerance for characters like Asuka and her offspring (Naru Narusegawa, Ayano Kannagi, etc). If I had to pick a female Eva character it’d be Misato all the way ;)
September 4th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I guess I just have a soft spot for the tsundere girls. I always seem to go for them. ^^
September 7th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
[...] habrían sido dos, pero es una pena que no haya sido así. Perdón. Septiembre 7th, 2007 Un millón de japoneses están embobados con Rei Ayanami, y no están como tú, leyendo este artículo [...]