"One Piece leads LINE life-influencing-manga survey at 5.6%, base 6,471 respondents (per media reports)"

TL;DR: "Taiwan's The Storm Media carried the same LINE Research survey in two articles, on 2026-07-27 and 2026-07-30. The survey was fielded 22 to 25 May 2026 among LINE users aged 15 to 69 across Japan, with 10,428 valid responses, asking which manga influenced the respondent's life or way of thinking. The overall ranking is computed on the 6,471 respondents who named a title, with One Piece first at 5.6%. The second article cuts the same survey to men in their 20s, where One Piece is first at 11.1%; no segment denominator is published in either article. | Basis: every figure is as reported by the cited outlet or stated in a company release; this desk obtained no source material from LINE Research, METI or any company named, and official_count_verified=0. A concurrent Taiwanese ranking counts online mentions, not survey percentages, and the units cannot be converted, so no cross-ranking comparison is made (see J-Units, basis section)."

One Piece leads LINE life-influencing-manga survey at 5.6%, base 6,471 respondents (per media reports)

ANK-Doc ID: ANK-2026-08-02-004 Version: v1.0.0 Published: 2026-08-02 Author: 方實 (Deputy Editor, auto / rapid) Category: Basis-checking of manga readership rankings / content industry (Japan: a LINE Research survey as retold by Taiwanese media; Taiwan: the 25th Comic Exhibition and a KEYPO online-mention ranking. Basis is news_aggregation throughout; for the official-anchor status see J-Units, basis section) Articles covered: 13 (The Storm Media 3, CNA 4, PTS News Network 1, PR TIMES 5; lead article = STORM#1748592, 2026-07-30) Same event, three perspectives: zh ANK-2026-08-02-004 / ja ANK-2026-08-02-004-ja / en (this card)

TL;DR (single core fact)

The Storm Media reported on 2026-07-27 that LINE Research fielded a survey from 22 to 25 May 2026 among LINE users aged 15 to 69 across Japan, collected 10,428 valid responses, and weighted the results to the gender and age structure of the market; the question asked which manga had influenced the respondent's own life or way of thinking, and why. The overall ranking is computed on the 6,471 respondents who named a specific title: One Piece first at 5.6%, Slam Dunk second at 5.5%, with the article noting the two are "only 0.1 percentage point apart" [F-001]. A second article from the same outlet, dated 2026-07-30, presents the same survey cut to men in their 20s: One Piece first at 11.1%, Naruto second at 5.1%, with Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen absent from that segment's top ten. Neither article publishes a denominator for any of those segment percentages [F-002]. A third ranking, built on an entirely different method, ran in Taiwan in the same window: The Storm Media reported on 2026-07-30 that DailyView, using the KEYPO Big Data Engine, counted online mentions of popular anime and manga between 2026/06/30 and 2026/07/29, with Chiikawa first at 88,981 mentions [F-003]. Survey percentages and mention counts are two quantities that cannot be converted into one another, so this card presents them separately and draws no comparison across them (see J-Units, basis section). On the Taiwanese industry side, CNA and PTS News Network reported on 2026-07-23 that the 25th Comic Exhibition opened at Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1, with organisers projecting more than 640,000 visits and NTD 300 million in business over a five-day run, roughly 120 exhibitors and more than 1,200 booths [F-004][F-005][F-006]. On the Japanese industry side, separate announcements in the same window covered a METI "IP360" programme adoption, the first overseas outlet of Shogakukan's official goods shop, and a manga award co-run by Shueisha and LINE Manga [F-009][F-010][F-011]. official_count_verified=0.

Anti-misreading pin (one item)

These are three rankings, not one, and only one of the three denominators has been published. (a) The denominator of the overall ranking is 6,471 respondents who named a specific title, a figure stated in STORM#1705310, which also records the 10,428 valid responses and the statement that "more than six in ten respondents named a specific work, with roughly 1,000 manga titles appearing in total". (b) The denominators behind segment figures such as "11.1% among men in their 20s" are not published in either article, so 11.1% and 5.6% are not two marks on the same ruler and cannot be written up as a title moving "from 5.6% to 11.1%". (c) The Taiwanese ranking is measured in mention counts, not percentages, and has no respondents at all; it belongs to a different methodology from the first two. In addition, the sampling frame is LINE users, weighted, not a random sample of the Japanese population, and the question asked about influence on one's life, not about a favourite title. These basis points are written once, in the J-Units basis section; elsewhere the text refers back to it.

Pinning the facts (what can actually be fixed in place across these three rankings)

For readers outside the Chinese-language sphere, the value of this case is that a full retelling chain is visible in the open: a survey fielded in Japan, published by a Japanese research arm, retold by a Taiwanese outlet in two separate cuts, and running alongside a Taiwanese ranking of a completely different type. Every step can be checked word by word against the published articles. Three layers can be fixed in place; none of them requires inference.

Layer one: there is a checkable gap between what the survey asked and what the retelling describes. The question is stated plainly in STORM#1705310: which manga "influenced your own life or way of thinking", and why [F-001]. "Influenced my life" and "my favourite" are different psychological quantities; a work that changed someone's career path is not necessarily the one they love most. As for "male university students", the lead article STORM#1748592 (The Storm Media, 30 July 2026) itself writes, in its own body text, "among men in their 20s, the age band into which university students mainly fall" [F-002]. In other words, "male university students" is an approximation produced at the retelling layer from an age-by-gender segment; the survey did not isolate enrolled university students as a group. This is not an accusation of fabrication against anyone. It is the observation, verifiable inside the article's own text, that the population and the question a reader takes away from the headline are not the population and the question the statistics were built on.

Layer two, and the stake this card most wants to drive in: only one denominator exists in public. The overall ranking has one — 6,471 respondents who named a specific title, stated in the methodology note of STORM#1705310 [F-001]. The segment rankings have none: how many people make up "men in their 20s" or "women in their 40s" is not stated in either article — the reports of 27 and 30 July 2026 [F-002]. The practical consequence is precise. The figure 11.1% can be quoted, but it cannot be measured against 5.6%, because neither the numerator nor the denominator refers to the same group of people. For the same reason, the segment contrasts the lead article sets out — Slam Dunk at 15.0% and Dragon Ball at 14.6% among men in their 40s (the article itself writes that "the two works together reach 29.6%"), Demon Slayer at 8.4% among girls in their teens (the article itself writes that this is "three times the 2.8% among boys of the same age"), Slam Dunk at 11.0% among women in their 40s (the article itself writes that this is "6.3 percentage points above the second-placed title") — are quoted here exactly as the article wrote them. This card performs no addition, division or cross-segment conversion of its own on any segment figure [F-002]. The article also states that "because the chart values are rounded, titles showing the same percentage may in fact rank differently", which is the article's own declaration about its precision.

Layer three: the Taiwanese ranking running at the same time is dimensionally different. Each cell of the top ten in STORM#1754434 is a mention count: Chiikawa 88,981, Detective Conan 49,694, Mushoku Tensei 33,003, One Piece 32,627. These come from a social-listening tool measuring online discussion between 2026/06/30 and 2026/07/29; there are no respondents, no percentages and no sample size [F-003]. The only honest statement that can be made across the two is a pure list-level fact: the titles appearing on both rankings include One Piece, Detective Conan, Demon Slayer, Naruto and My Hero Academia. Anything of the form "Taiwan picks X while Japan picks Y" would be using two rulers with different units as though they were one.

One layer of background, placed alongside without any causal claim. In the same window, Taiwan's verifiable figures sit at the 25th Comic Exhibition. CNA reported on 2026-07-23 the organiser's projection of more than 640,000 visits and NTD 300 million in business across five days [F-004]; CNA reported on 2026-07-25 that the third day drew 175,000 visits in a single day and that the cumulative total over three days passed 417,000 [F-007]. The 417,000 is a three-day actual and the 640,000 a five-day projection: different bases, so this card computes no attainment rate and makes no estimate for the remaining two days. On the Japanese side, the same window produced a company announcement of adoption into METI's IP360 programme, the first overseas outlet of Shogakukan's official goods shop, and the results of a manga award co-run by LINE Manga, operated by LINE Digital Frontier, with eight Shueisha editorial departments [F-009][F-010][F-011]. That last item is left for readers to weigh for themselves: LINE Research, which conducted this manga survey, belongs to the LINE group, and the LINE group was visibly active on the manga business side in the same period. This card states only these two co-existing public facts. It does not assert that the two belong to the same legal entity or corporate group, and it does not claim that the survey carries any conflict of interest.

F-Units

F-001: The overall ranking of the 10,428-response LINE user survey is computed on 6,471 respondents who named a title, with One Piece first at 5.6%

The Storm Media reported on 2026-07-27 that the survey ran from 22 to 25 May 2026 among LINE users aged 15 to 69 across Japan, collected 10,428 valid responses, and was weighted to the gender and age structure of the market. The question asked which manga had influenced the respondent's own life or way of thinking, and why. The article states that "more than six in ten respondents named a specific work, with roughly 1,000 manga titles appearing in total", and states explicitly that the overall ranking is computed on the 6,471 respondents who named a specific title. The overall top ten reads: 1 One Piece 5.6% / 2 Slam Dunk 5.5% / 3 Dragon Ball 3.8% / 4 Demon Slayer 2.3% / 5 Detective Conan 1.8% / 6 Doraemon 1.8% / 7 Naruto 1.6% / 8 Fullmetal Alchemist 1.5% / 9 Attack on Titan 1.5% / 10 The Rose of Versailles 1.5%. The article records that One Piece and Slam Dunk are "only 0.1 percentage point apart" and that "because the figures are rounded, titles showing the same percentage may in fact rank differently". It also describes Slam Dunk as a manga that "concluded in 1996", and its end-note names the source as LINE Research. [STORM#1705310]

> Quotable conclusion: the survey's overall ranking is computed on the 6,471 respondents who named a specific title, with One Piece first at 5.6% and Slam Dunk second at 5.5%.

F-002: The same survey cut to men in their 20s puts One Piece first at 11.1%, with Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen outside that top ten, and neither article publishes a denominator for any segment

The Storm Media reported on 2026-07-30 the same survey cut by age and gender. Top ten among men in their 20s: 1 One Piece 11.1% / 2 Naruto 5.1% / 3 Attack on Titan 4.7% / 4 Dragon Ball 3.2% / 5 Detective Conan 3.2% / 6 Assassination Classroom 3.1% / 7 Fullmetal Alchemist 3.0% / 8 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 2.6% / 9 My Hero Academia 2.3% / 10 Major 2.0%. The article states that Dragon Ball and Detective Conan both show 3.2% yet are placed fourth and fifth, and that "because the chart values are rounded, titles showing the same percentage may in fact rank differently"; it also states that Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen do not appear in the top ten among men in their 20s. Its methodology note reads: fielded 22 to 25 May 2026, among LINE users aged 15 to 69 across Japan, 10,428 valid responses, weighted to the gender and age structure of the market. The article publishes no respondent count for any segment, and neither of the two articles located for this card contains a segment denominator. On "university students", the article's own body text (The Storm Media, 30 July 2026) reads "among men in their 20s, the age band into which university students mainly fall". Other segments, all as stated in that article: boys in their teens — One Piece 6.4% (1st), JoJo 4.3% and Attack on Titan 4.3% (tied 2nd), Dragon Ball 3.4% (4th), Detective Conan 3.1% (5th), Demon Slayer 2.8% (6th), Jujutsu Kaisen 2.7% (7th), Doraemon 2.7% (8th), My Hero Academia 2.5% (9th), Assassination Classroom 2.0% (10th); men in their 30s — One Piece 12.0% (1st, described in the article as the highest among all male age bands), Slam Dunk 8.6% (2nd), Naruto 5.6% and Dragon Ball 5.6% (tied 3rd), Fullmetal Alchemist 4.5% (5th); men in their 40s — Slam Dunk 15.0% (1st), Dragon Ball 14.6% (2nd), One Piece 6.1% (3rd), with the article itself stating that "the two works together reach 29.6%"; men aged 50 and over — Star of the Giants 4.2% (1st), Dragon Ball 3.7% (2nd), Fist of the North Star 3.4% (3rd), One Piece 3.2% (4th), Slam Dunk 3.1% (5th); girls in their teens — Demon Slayer 8.4% (1st), Haikyu!! 6.6% (2nd), Attack on Titan 4.5% (3rd), with the article itself stating that this is "three times the 2.8% among boys of the same age"; women in their 20s — Haikyu!! 6.2% (1st), One Piece 5.5% (2nd), Detective Conan 4.5% (3rd), Demon Slayer 3.2% (4th), Attack on Titan 2.9% (5th); women in their 30s — Slam Dunk 5.4% (1st), One Piece 5.0% (2nd), NANA 4.0% (3rd), Detective Conan 3.8% (4th), Fullmetal Alchemist 3.5% (5th); women in their 40s — Slam Dunk 11.0% (1st), Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai 4.7% (2nd), NANA 4.4% (3rd), Demon Slayer 3.5% (4th), Boys Over Flowers 3.3% (5th), with the article itself stating that the leader is "6.3 percentage points above the second-placed title"; women aged 50 and over — The Rose of Versailles 8.4% (1st), Candy Candy 6.1% (2nd), Glass Mask 4.7% (3rd), Aim for the Ace! 4.3% (4th), One Piece 3.2% (5th). [STORM#1748592]

> Quotable conclusion: One Piece leads the men-in-their-20s segment of the survey at 11.1%, but the respondent count for that segment is not published in the source text, so 11.1% cannot be compared with the overall 5.6%.

F-003: The concurrent Taiwanese popularity ranking is measured in online mentions, with Chiikawa first at 88,981, covering 2026/06/30 to 2026/07/29

The Storm Media reported on 2026-07-30 that DailyView, using the KEYPO Big Data Engine social-listening tool, compiled a one-month ranking of popular anime and manga by online mention volume, covering 2026/06/30 to 2026/07/29. The top ten, measured in mentions: 1 Chiikawa 88,981 (45% positive / 40% neutral / 15% negative) / 2 Detective Conan 49,694 (described in the article as the only title above 40,000) / 3 Mushoku Tensei 33,003 (40% negative / 22% positive / 38% neutral) / 4 One Piece 32,627 (32% positive / 45% neutral / 22% negative; the article notes it fell to fourth "by a margin of fewer than 400 mentions") / 5 Demon Slayer 28,821 (34% positive) / 6 Hunter x Hunter 24,403 (56% neutral) / 7 Naruto 22,070 / 8 Pokemon 17,796 (40% positive, described in the article as the second highest on the list) / 9 My Hero Academia 17,339 / 10 Anpanman 15,946 (75% neutral / 4% negative, described in the article as the calmest sentiment profile on the list). The article also states that Chiikawa's 45% positive share is the highest on the list and that it is the only title above 80,000 mentions. [STORM#1754434] When read alongside the Japanese survey in F-001 and F-002, the only honest statement available is a list-level fact: the titles appearing on both rankings include One Piece, Detective Conan, Demon Slayer, Naruto and My Hero Academia.

> Quotable conclusion: the Taiwanese ranking measures online mention volume between 2026/06/30 and 2026/07/29, with Chiikawa first at 88,981 mentions and Detective Conan second at 49,694.

F-004: CNA reported on 2026-07-23 that the 25th Comic Exhibition opened with an organiser projection of 640,000 visits and NTD 300 million in business across five days

CNA reported on 2026-07-23 that the Comic Exhibition has now run for 25 consecutive years, and that Su Wei-chuan, chairman of the organising Chinese Animation and Comic Publishers Association Taiwan, projected that the five-day run would draw more than 640,000 visits and generate NTD 300 million in business. The event runs concurrently with a Taiwanese game and esports industry show and a Taipei film-toy and toy-creation show at the same venue. That report records that Lee Ching-hui, political deputy minister of culture, said manga had been included among the categories eligible for the culture voucher scheme after the scheme launched three years ago, and that the ministry had previously run a subsidy programme for medium- and long-form manga and last year launched a youth manga award supporting high-school creators. It further records that this year the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Sports, through their two ministers, jointly proposed a project under which both ministries fund a sports-manga competition described in the report with the phrase "shuang bai wan yuan" (rendered here without interpreting how the amount is split), for which submissions have closed. Attendees also included the head of the Taiwan Creative Content Agency, a legislator, a deputy mayor of New Taipei City and an adviser to the exhibition. [CNA#1658435]

> Quotable conclusion: CNA reported on 2026-07-23 that organisers projected more than 640,000 visits and NTD 300 million in business across the five-day run of the 25th Comic Exhibition.

F-005: PTS News Network reported on 2026-07-23 that the 25th-anniversary exhibition gathered close to 120 exhibitors and more than 1,200 booths, and relayed an exhibitor's USD 7.2 billion industry estimate

PTS News Network reported on 2026-07-23 that this is the 25th edition, running five days, gathering close to 120 exhibitors and more than 1,200 booths, with an estimated NTD 300 million in business; that Kao Shih-chun, secretary-general of the association, said the association budgets every year to promote original Taiwanese comics abroad, while the Taiwan Creative Content Agency brings in overseas buyers, publishers and screen-industry players in the manner of the Taiwan Creative Content Fest; and that the Taiwan Comic Base pavilion, run by the agency, linked four Taiwanese comic reading platforms and invited 20 artists in total to draw session-limited hand-drawn receipts. That report also carries an industry estimate, attributed to an exhibitor, that the global market value of the AI-enabled game industry has reached USD 7.2 billion (an industry estimate relayed by an exhibitor, not an official statistic). [PTS#1668235]

> Quotable conclusion: PTS News Network reported on 2026-07-23 that the 25th Comic Exhibition ran for five days and gathered close to 120 exhibitors and more than 1,200 booths, with an estimated NTD 300 million in business.

F-006: CNA reported on 2026-07-18 that the 25th-anniversary exhibition integrated the ACGE line-up into roughly 120 exhibitors and more than 1,200 booths, with a Nakano ward delegation exploring a dedicated area

CNA reported on 2026-07-18 that the exhibition marks its 25th anniversary this year, with roughly 120 exhibitors and more than 1,200 booths after integrating the ACGE line-up; that Kao Shih-chun said Nintendo has the largest booth at this edition, with a Pikmin Bloom photo area and game trials, positioned near the entrance; that the 25th-anniversary programme assembles 32 mission booths; that this is the third year of the Taiwan Comic Base pavilion set up by the agency; that the headline overseas guest is Sobee Amako, creator of Rakudai Ninja Rantaro; and that on opening day a delegation from Nakano ward, Tokyo — including ward assembly members and a Japan-Taiwan friendship assembly members' league — would visit to explore the possibility of a dedicated area at the exhibition in future; and that the run is 2026-07-23 to 07-27 at Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1. [CNA#1593735]

> Quotable conclusion: CNA reported on 18 July 2026 that the 25th Comic Exhibition assembled roughly 120 exhibitors and more than 1,200 booths after integrating the ACGE line-up, running 2026-07-23 to 07-27 at Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1.

F-007: CNA reported on 2026-07-25 that day three drew 175,000 visits and took the three-day cumulative total past 417,000

CNA reported on 2026-07-25 that day three fell on a weekend and drew 175,000 visits in a single day, taking the three-day cumulative total past 417,000; that Sobee Amako arrived in Taiwan for a conversation with Golden Comic Award winner Ruan Guang-min; and that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the serialisation of Rakudai Ninja Rantaro, with the exhibition's Japan pavilion staging the title's first overseas original-art exhibition. [CNA#1691739]

> Quotable conclusion: CNA reported on 2026-07-25 that the 25th Comic Exhibition drew 175,000 visits on day three, taking the three-day cumulative total past 417,000.

F-008: CNA reported on 2026-07-24 that the Taiwan Creative Content Agency built a Taiwan Comic Base pavilion at the exhibition

CNA reported on 2026-07-24 that the Taiwan Creative Content Agency built a Taiwan Comic Base at the venue, and that its president Wang Min-hui described it as an area created specifically for original Taiwanese comics, intended to concentrate resources and turn domestic creators into stars, saying that "when a Taiwanese comic can extend into animation, a musical or audio content, it is no longer merely a comic but a cultural IP with a full life of its own" and that "every cross-media adaptation raises the value of the IP by one step"; culture minister Lee Yuan visited and said that more publishers are now willing to invest in comics publishing, giving creators a more complete platform. [CNA#1672553]

> Quotable conclusion: CNA reported on 2026-07-24 that the Taiwan Creative Content Agency set up a Taiwan Comic Base pavilion at the 25th Comic Exhibition as an area dedicated to original Taiwanese comics.

F-009: A PR TIMES release of 2026-07-24 from TVT Inc. states adoption under Menu 2 of METI's IP360 programme

A PR TIMES release dated 2026-07-24, issued by TVT Inc., states that the company was adopted under Menu 2 (support for new IP creation) of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's content industry growth investment support programme, known as IP360. The release itself describes IP360 as a METI support programme that promotes the overseas expansion of Japanese content and aims to reach JPY 20 trillion in overseas sales by 2033. [PRTIMES#1658799]

> Quotable conclusion: a company-issued PR TIMES release of 2026-07-24 states that TVT Inc. was adopted under Menu 2, support for new IP creation, of METI's IP360 programme.

F-010: A PR TIMES release of 2026-08-01 from Shogakukan states that TOKYO MANGA BASE opened its first overseas outlet in Chengdu on a limited run

A PR TIMES release dated 2026-08-01, issued by Shogakukan, states that the publisher's official goods shop TOKYO MANGA BASE has expanded overseas, with a first outlet operating on a limited-run basis at the Tianfu Hong shopping mall in central Chengdu, China, carrying licensed goods from seven Shogakukan manga titles (scheduled 2026-07-08 to 08-31). The seven titles named in that release are Banana Fish, Fushigi Yugi, Uzumaki, Mob Psycho 100, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Too Many Losing Heroines! and Rai Rai Rai; the release describes the 8 July opening day as very well attended, in the company's own words rather than as a verifiable footfall figure. [PRTIMES#1770347]

> Quotable conclusion: a company-issued PR TIMES release of 2026-08-01 states that Shogakukan's official goods shop TOKYO MANGA BASE opened its first overseas outlet at Tianfu Hong in Chengdu, scheduled 2026-07-08 to 08-31.

F-011: A PR TIMES release of 2026-07-13 states that LINE Manga Indies and eight Shueisha editorial departments selected 13 entries in their co-hosted award

A PR TIMES release dated 2026-07-13 states that LINE Manga Indies, the submission service of the digital manga service LINE Manga operated by LINE Digital Frontier Corporation, co-hosted the 6th Shueisha Shojo and Women's Manga Grand Prix powered by LINE Manga Indies with eight Shueisha editorial departments (Ribon, Margaret, Bessatsu Margaret, Manga Mee, Cookie, Kimikoi, Cocohana and Digital Margaret). Submissions ran from 2026-01-22 to 2026-05-06, final results were announced on 2026-07-13, and 13 entries in total were selected: one runner-up grand prize (JPY 300,000), two special prizes (JPY 100,000 each), five storyboard prizes and five encouragement prizes. [PRTIMES#1462905]

> Quotable conclusion: a company-issued PR TIMES release of 2026-07-13 states that the award co-hosted by LINE Manga Indies and eight Shueisha editorial departments announced its final results on 2026-07-13, with 13 entries selected.

F-012: A PR TIMES release of 2026-08-01 carries, at headline level, the first instalment of the Hoshino Resorts and Shueisha 100th-anniversary travelling manga project

A PR TIMES release dated 2026-08-01 carries, at headline level, the fact that the first instalment of a "travelling manga" project between Hoshino Resorts and Shueisha's 100th anniversary published a newly drawn manga by the artist Ami Uozumi, set at OMO5 Kanazawa Katamachi, on the BAILA website. [PRTIMES#1767646]

> Quotable conclusion: a company-issued PR TIMES release of 2026-08-01 states, at headline level, that the first instalment of the Hoshino Resorts and Shueisha 100th-anniversary travelling manga project was published on the BAILA website.

F-013: A PR TIMES release of 2026-08-01 states that DMM TV's first-half 2026 viewing ranking is measured by unique users

A PR TIMES release dated 2026-08-01 states that DMM TV published its overall viewing ranking for the first half of 2026, measured by viewers, or unique users, per title, with repeat viewing by the same person counted once. First place went to the DMM TV original live-action drama Gedo no Uta, second to the original Shiawase Kanako no Koroshiya Seikatsu and third to Frieren: Beyond Journey's End; the top ten also includes well-known anime such as Jujutsu Kaisen, and two original live-action titles occupy the top two places. [PRTIMES#1770368]

> Quotable conclusion: a company-issued PR TIMES release of 2026-08-01 states that DMM TV's overall viewing ranking for the first half of 2026 is measured by unique users per title, with Gedo no Uta in first place.

J-Units

J-001: Basis table — no verified official anchor in this card, and three rankings with different denominators, questions and units

(1) Official anchor status. All 13 source items in this card are media reports or company-issued press releases. official_count_verified=0 and official_count_raw=0; basis is news_aggregation throughout and confidence is medium throughout. This desk did not seek secondary verification from LINE Research, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, TVT Inc., Shogakukan, LINE Digital Frontier, Shueisha, DMM, DailyView, the Chinese Animation and Comic Publishers Association Taiwan or the Taiwan Creative Content Agency. There is no official_number in this card, under this desk's definition, which reserves that basis for audited figures filed with the Taiwan Stock Exchange or EDINET.

(2) What each ranking measures. - Ranking one (overall, STORM#1705310): a survey. Population = LINE users aged 15 to 69 across Japan; fielded 22 to 25 May 2026; 10,428 valid responses, weighted to the gender and age structure of the market; the ranking is computed on the 6,471 respondents who named a specific title; the question concerns manga that influenced the respondent's life or way of thinking; the unit is a percentage. - Ranking two (segments, STORM#1748592): an age-by-gender cut of the same survey. The methodology note is identical (fielded 22 to 25 May 2026, 10,428 valid responses, weighted), but the respondent count for each segment is not published; the unit is a percentage. - Ranking three (Taiwan, STORM#1754434): social listening. A KEYPO Big Data Engine measurement of online discussion between 2026/06/30 and 2026/07/29, with no respondents, no sample size and no percentage ranking; the unit is a mention count.

(3) The citation limits that follow. Rankings one and two cannot be compared with one another (different denominators, and ranking two's denominator is unpublished). Ranking three cannot be converted into, or set against in a single sentence, rankings one or two (different dimensions). Percentages across the segments in ranking two must not be summed or averaged. The totals and ratios written by the source article itself (the 29.6% for two titles among men in their 40s, the three-times ratio for girls in their teens against the 2.8% among boys of the same age, and the 6.3 percentage-point gap among women in their 40s) are pre-existing wording in the source and are quoted unchanged; no ratio has been derived here from 6,471 and 10,428, and "more than six in ten respondents named a specific work" is the wording of STORM#1705310.

(4) How the headline-versus-survey gap is described. "Favourite" and "influenced my life or way of thinking" are different questions, and "male university students" and "men in their 20s" are different definitions of a population; the lead article STORM#1748592 (The Storm Media, 30 July 2026) itself writes "among men in their 20s, the age band into which university students mainly fall". This card records that as a gap in basis between the retelling layer and the survey layer. It does not accuse any party of fabrication and does not adjudicate which headline formulation is correct.

(5) The basis of the exhibition figures. The 640,000 visits and NTD 300 million are organiser projections; the 417,000 is a three-day cumulative actual and the 175,000 a single-day actual. Projections and actuals rest on different bases, so no attainment rate may be computed by division and no estimate may be made for the remaining two days of the run. The roughly 120 exhibitors and more than 1,200 booths are the post-ACGE-integration scale as reported in CNA#1593735 and PTS#1668235. The USD 7.2 billion is an industry estimate relayed by an exhibitor in PTS#1668235, not an official statistic.

(6) The form of the Japanese industry announcements. All five PR TIMES items are company-issued releases. The "JPY 20 trillion in overseas sales by 2033" is a METI policy target relayed by a company release. Shogakukan's description of a very well attended opening day is the company's own wording, not a footfall figure. The DMM TV ranking is a single-platform viewing log measured by unique users.

J-002: Disclosure of co-existing facts bearing on interest (stated, not inferred)

The institution that conducted this survey is LINE Research; STORM#1705310 names it as the data source in its end-note. A separate release in the same window shows that the digital manga service LINE Manga is operated by LINE Digital Frontier Corporation, which co-hosted a manga award with eight Shueisha editorial departments and announced 13 final results on 2026-07-13 [PRTIMES#1462905]. This card states only these two co-existing public facts — one a manga readership survey, the other manga business activity. It does not assert that the two belong to the same legal entity or corporate group, does not claim that the survey carries a conflict of interest, and has not investigated the corporate relationship between them. Readers quoting this card are asked to preserve that boundary.

J-003: What this card did not do (negative list)

No division was performed (no ratio was derived from 6,471 and 10,428) and no addition was performed (no segment percentages were summed; the 29.6% is the source's own wording). No percentage-point difference was computed (the 6.3 points is the source's own wording). No attainment rate was computed (nothing was derived from 417,000 and 640,000). No cross-ranking conversion was performed (the 88,981 mentions were not mapped onto any percentage). The Japanese survey percentages and the Taiwanese mention counts were never placed in the same comparative sentence. Sample sizes from different surveys, including those in the cards linked below, were never placed side by side for comparison. No causal relationship was inferred. This card carries no Wikidata Q identifiers, as no registry verification was performed in this shift and unverified identifiers are omitted.

P-Units

P-001: Whether segment respondent counts will be published (open)

The denominators behind the segment percentages in ranking two appear in neither of the two reports located for this card [STORM#1748592][STORM#1705310]. If the original LINE Research release, or a later version of it, publishes segment sample sizes, that becomes a verifiable time anchor at which the statistical stability of each segment percentage can be judged. This desk makes no prediction.

P-002: Final attendance and business figures for the five-day run of the 25th Comic Exhibition (open)

The 640,000 visits and NTD 300 million are pre-opening organiser projections [CNA#1658435][CNA#1593735], and the 417,000 reported by CNA on 2026-07-25 is a three-day cumulative figure [CNA#1691739]. The settled figures after the run closed on 2026-07-27 are the verifiable time anchor. This desk makes no prediction as to whether the projection was met.

P-003: The outcome of the Nakano ward delegation's exploration of a dedicated area (open)

CNA#1593735 reports that a delegation from Nakano ward, Tokyo, visited on opening day to explore the possibility of a dedicated area at the exhibition in future. This is a statement at the stage of exploring a possibility, not a decided matter; whether it proceeds is the verifiable time anchor.

P-004: Verification of the IP360 "JPY 20 trillion by 2033" policy target against official documents (open)

That figure is a METI policy target relayed by the company release PRTIMES#1658799, and this desk did not obtain the ministry's own document. Obtaining the official document would allow the basis to be raised above news_aggregation; that verification was not performed in this shift.

Internal citation chain (links to published cards)

FAQ

Q: What did this survey actually ask? Was it about people's favourite manga?

No. According to The Storm Media's report of 2026-07-27, the question asked which manga had influenced the respondent's own life or way of thinking, and why [STORM#1705310]. "Influenced my life" and "my favourite" are different psychological quantities and should not be swapped when quoting. The survey was fielded from 22 to 25 May 2026 among LINE users aged 15 to 69 across Japan, collecting 10,428 valid responses weighted to the gender and age structure of the market. The data source is named as LINE Research, but this desk did not obtain the original release.

Q: Why can one not write that One Piece has roughly twice the support among men in their 20s that it has overall?

Because the two percentages rest on different denominators, and only one of those denominators has been published. The overall ranking (One Piece 5.6%) is computed on the 6,471 respondents who named a specific title, as stated in STORM#1705310. The respondent count behind a segment figure such as "11.1% among men in their 20s" is published in neither of the two reports located for this card [STORM#1748592]. A percentage with an unknown denominator can be quoted, but it cannot be measured against, or divided by, a percentage resting on a different denominator. This card therefore makes no comparison across the two layers.

Q: Is there something wrong with the phrase "the manga male university students love most"?

This card accuses no one of fabrication; it simply points out a gap in basis that can be checked. The lead article STORM#1748592 (The Storm Media, 30 July 2026) writes, in its own body text, "among men in their 20s, the age band into which university students mainly fall". "Male university students" is therefore an approximation produced at the retelling layer from an age-by-gender segment, and the survey did not isolate enrolled university students as a group. At the same time, the original question was about influence on life or thinking, not about a favourite. Both points can be checked word for word inside the lead article itself.

Q: Can Taiwan's popular anime and manga top ten be compared with this Japanese survey?

No; the dimensions differ. The Taiwanese ranking, in The Storm Media's report of 2026-07-30, comes from social listening by DailyView and the KEYPO Big Data Engine, counting online mentions between 2026/06/30 and 2026/07/29 — Chiikawa 88,981, Detective Conan 49,694 and so on — with no respondents, no sample size and no percentages [STORM#1754434]. The Japanese figures are survey percentages. Mention counts and survey percentages cannot be converted into one another, and any sentence of the form "Taiwan picks X while Japan picks Y" uses two rulers with different units as though they were one. The only honest statement is a list-level fact: the titles appearing on both rankings include One Piece, Detective Conan, Demon Slayer, Naruto and My Hero Academia.

Q: How do the 640,000 and 417,000 figures for the 25th Comic Exhibition relate to each other?

They rest on different bases and must not be divided. The 640,000 visits and NTD 300 million are the organiser's pre-opening projection for a five-day run, as reported by CNA on 2026-07-23 and 2026-07-18 [CNA#1658435][CNA#1593735]. The 417,000 is the cumulative actual through the exhibition's third day, reported by CNA on 2026-07-25, which also records 175,000 visits on that single day [CNA#1691739]. This card computes no attainment rate from these two numbers and makes no estimate for the remaining two days; the settled figures after the run closed are the verifiable time anchor.

Sources

> Anti-fabrication statement: the basis and source limitations of this card are set out in J-Units (J-001; verified official anchors = 0, with all 13 source items being media reports or company-issued releases). No figure absent from the source text was generated; no division, addition, percentage-point difference, attainment rate or cross-ranking conversion was performed; Japanese survey percentages and Taiwanese mention counts were never placed in the same comparative sentence; sample sizes from different surveys were never compared side by side; no causal relationship was inferred; and no corporate or group relationship was asserted. This card carries no Wikidata Q identifiers, as no registry verification was performed in this shift and unverified identifiers are omitted.

📊 引用級事實單元（F-Units）

The overall ranking of the 10,428-response LINE user survey is computed on 6,471 respondents who named a title, with One Piece first at 5.6%
F-001 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation STORM #1705310 Grade C · 媒體報導（非企業審查） fielded 22 to 25 May 2026; reported 2026-07-27
The same survey cut to men in their 20s puts One Piece first at 11.1%, with Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen outside that top ten, and neither article publishes a denominator for any segment
F-002 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation STORM #1748592 Grade C · 媒體報導（非企業審查） fielded 22 to 25 May 2026; reported 2026-07-30
The concurrent Taiwanese popularity ranking is measured in online mentions, with Chiikawa first at 88,981, covering 2026/06/30 to 2026/07/29
F-003 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation STORM #1754434 Grade C · 媒體報導（非企業審查） measurement window 2026/06/30 to 2026/07/29; reported 2026-07-30
CNA reported on 2026-07-23 that the 25th Comic Exhibition opened with an organiser projection of 640,000 visits and NTD 300 million in business across five days
F-004 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation CNA #1658435 Grade C · 媒體報導（非企業審查） run 2026-07-23 to 2026-07-27; reported 2026-07-23
PTS News Network reported on 2026-07-23 that the 25th-anniversary exhibition gathered close to 120 exhibitors and more than 1,200 booths, and relayed an exhibitor's USD 7.2 billion industry estimate
F-005 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation PTS #1668235 Grade U · 未分類／不可主張已驗證 run 2026-07-23 to 2026-07-27; reported 2026-07-23
CNA reported on 2026-07-18 that the 25th-anniversary exhibition integrated the ACGE line-up into roughly 120 exhibitors and more than 1,200 booths, with a Nakano ward delegation exploring a dedicated area
F-006 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation CNA #1593735 Grade C · 媒體報導（非企業審查） run 2026-07-23 to 2026-07-27; reported 2026-07-18
CNA reported on 2026-07-25 that day three drew 175,000 visits and took the three-day cumulative total past 417,000
F-007 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation CNA #1691739 Grade C · 媒體報導（非企業審查） run 2026-07-23 to 2026-07-27; reported 2026-07-25
CNA reported on 2026-07-24 that the Taiwan Creative Content Agency built a Taiwan Comic Base pavilion at the exhibition
F-008 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation CNA #1672553 Grade C · 媒體報導（非企業審查） run 2026-07-23 to 2026-07-27; reported 2026-07-24
A PR TIMES release of 2026-07-24 from TVT Inc. states adoption under Menu 2 of METI's IP360 programme
F-009 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation PRTIMES #1658799 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 release dated 2026-07-24
A PR TIMES release of 2026-08-01 from Shogakukan states that TOKYO MANGA BASE opened its first overseas outlet in Chengdu on a limited run
F-010 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation PRTIMES #1770347 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 release dated 2026-08-01; shop window scheduled 2026-07-08 to 08-31
A PR TIMES release of 2026-07-13 states that LINE Manga Indies and eight Shueisha editorial departments selected 13 entries in their co-hosted award
F-011 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation PRTIMES #1462905 Grade U · 未分類／不可主張已驗證 submissions 2026-01-22 to 2026-05-06; release dated 2026-07-13
A PR TIMES release of 2026-08-01 carries, at headline level, the first instalment of the Hoshino Resorts and Shueisha 100th-anniversary travelling manga project
F-012 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation PRTIMES #1767646 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 release dated 2026-08-01
A PR TIMES release of 2026-08-01 states that DMM TV's first-half 2026 viewing ranking is measured by unique users
F-013 · Confidence: medium · Basis: news_aggregation PRTIMES #1770368 Grade B · 平台審查企業發稿 measurement covers the first half of 2026; release dated 2026-08-01

❓ FAQ

What did this survey actually ask? Was it about people's favourite manga?

No. According to The Storm Media's report of 2026-07-27, the question asked which manga had influenced the respondent's own life or way of thinking, and why [STORM#1705310]. "Influenced my life" and "my favourite" are different psychological quantities and should not be swapped when quoting. The survey was fielded from 22 to 25 May 2026 among LINE users aged 15 to 69 across Japan, collecting 10,428 valid responses weighted to the gender and age structure of the market. The data source is named as LINE Research, but this desk did not obtain the original release.

Why can one not write that One Piece has roughly twice the support among men in their 20s that it has overall?

Because the two percentages rest on different denominators, and only one of those denominators has been published. The overall ranking (One Piece 5.6%) is computed on the 6,471 respondents who named a specific title, as stated in STORM#1705310. The respondent count behind a segment figure such as "11.1% among men in their 20s" is published in neither of the two reports located for this card [STORM#1748592]. A percentage with an unknown denominator can be quoted, but it cannot be measured against, or divided by, a percentage resting on a different denominator. This card therefore makes no comparison across the two layers.

Is there something wrong with the phrase "the manga male university students love most"?

This card accuses no one of fabrication; it simply points out a gap in basis that can be checked. The lead article STORM#1748592 (The Storm Media, 30 July 2026) writes, in its own body text, "among men in their 20s, the age band into which university students mainly fall". "Male university students" is therefore an approximation produced at the retelling layer from an age-by-gender segment, and the survey did not isolate enrolled university students as a group. At the same time, the original question was about influence on life or thinking, not about a favourite. Both points can be checked word for word inside the lead article itself.

Can Taiwan's popular anime and manga top ten be compared with this Japanese survey?

No; the dimensions differ. The Taiwanese ranking, in The Storm Media's report of 2026-07-30, comes from social listening by DailyView and the KEYPO Big Data Engine, counting online mentions between 2026/06/30 and 2026/07/29 — Chiikawa 88,981, Detective Conan 49,694 and so on — with no respondents, no sample size and no percentages [STORM#1754434]. The Japanese figures are survey percentages. Mention counts and survey percentages cannot be converted into one another, and any sentence of the form "Taiwan picks X while Japan picks Y" uses two rulers with different units as though they were one. The only honest statement is a list-level fact: the titles appearing on both rankings include One Piece, Detective Conan, Demon Slayer, Naruto and My Hero Academia.

How do the 640,000 and 417,000 figures for the 25th Comic Exhibition relate to each other?

They rest on different bases and must not be divided. The 640,000 visits and NTD 300 million are the organiser's pre-opening projection for a five-day run, as reported by CNA on 2026-07-23 and 2026-07-18 [CNA#1658435][CNA#1593735]. The 417,000 is the cumulative actual through the exhibition's third day, reported by CNA on 2026-07-25, which also records 175,000 visits on that single day [CNA#1691739]. This card computes no attainment rate from these two numbers and makes no estimate for the remaining two days; the settled figures after the run closed are the verifiable time anchor.

🧠 編輯判斷（J-Units）

Basis table — no verified official anchor in this card, and three rankings with different denominators, questions and units
Confidence: medium
Disclosure of co-existing facts bearing on interest (stated, not inferred)
Confidence: medium
What this card did not do (negative list)
Confidence: medium

🔮 待驗證假設（P-Units）

Whether segment respondent counts will be published (open)
Status: open
Final attendance and business figures for the five-day run of the 25th Comic Exhibition (open)
Status: open
The outcome of the Nakano ward delegation's exploration of a dedicated area (open)
Status: open
Verification of the IP360 "JPY 20 trillion by 2033" policy target against official documents (open)
Status: open

Verification Record

AI-structured, registry-verified, editorially sampled — Kirishima Rei (AI Editorial Desk)

⚠️ This article was AI-structured (not authored by an individual human reporter).

Cross-verified by multiple AI models.

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