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Anime tend to become more and more popular in Western countries year by year
and were always popular in Japan. While many people watch them, seems like
most of the fans are geeks or gamers.

Based on the above, is it true, a huge percentage of programmers like anime?

While there are anime fans everywhere, most fans are from either USA or Japan.
To make the question more specific, I am asking about those two countries.


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How many percentage of anime viewers are programmers?


**There are no definite answers possible for your question, as there are no
known numbers of anime fans within the programming community.**

Besides that, it is still very Dependent on how broad you take the term _"
programmer"_ and _" like"_.  
There are plenty of children out there that are able to write a simple script
and call them self a programmer. And even without those there are tons of
programmers that enjoy watching a anime every once in a while, or some times a
cartoon. Which roughly would be just as big as the programmer group that likes
to watch a movie, television series and even reading a good book.

We can make a well educated guess, but it would be no more than speculation.
Assuming you are aiming at the above average adult anime watching behavior, so
where adult are watching just as much as kids. Which is according to the
following source roughly 24 hours a week or 3.4 hours a day.

> According to TV ratings company Nielsen, kids in 2012, age 2 to 11, watched
> an average of 24 hours of TV a week. That’s an average of three and a half
> hours a day.

Taking a average daily life of showering, eating and minimum healthy sleeping
habits and jobs into account. A person would take up about at least 19 hours a
day, leaving 5 hours a day. With the average programmers age of about 37 years
this time is usually spend with wife/ kids. Leaving about 13% tops of
programmers above the age of 20 to even have time enough to above averagely
like anime to begin with.


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