UPDATE: The survey has been reopened! Please go do it now if you haven’t already! I also added some new questions, but if you have already done the survey then it’s okay.

After helping out some Sec 3 students with their school project, I have decided to conduct my own little survey to satisfy my personal curiosity. So, if you are a Singaporean anime fan, then please take this survey! And please help to spread it around to all your anime buddies!

Do the survey or Yuki gets it…again!

And in case you haven’t heard… Odex has roped in four Japanese companies, held a press conference that resulted in the first CNA article on the subject, and launched their new VOD service with a grand total of two titles up for download.

Anyway, please do the survey, okay? I need a titanic sample size.

Apparently a group of Secondary 3 students are doing a school project on the whole Odex Incident. I’m not exactly sure what kind of school project starts at this time of the year, but whatever. Anyway, they politely requested for my help in publicizing the survey, so here I am. What a nice guy. So yeah, go do the survey!

P.S. And in a related news, PacNet successfully defended in court the identities of its users. Local forum discussions go nuts. Odex is expected to appeal. Refer to Straits Times.

Dear anime blogger,

I am Tan Yan Sheng, a secondary three student of River Valley High School. My group members and I are currently working on a school project regarding the recent incident of Odexâ€s crackdown on fansubs. One of the requirements of the project is for us to suggest a feasible and possible win-win solution for two parties to solve a common problem they faced. The topic that we are working on is the conflict between the anime fans and Odex.

From what we knew, many anime fans have been downloading “free” anime from the fansubs, and their acts have enraged Odex, the licensed anime retailer in Singapore, claiming that they are losing much of their profits due to the “irresponsible” acts of the anime fans. Rising tensions between the two parties have caused Odex to take legal action against the anime fans who downloaded anime “illegally”.

As third party observers, we are curious to know why the anime fans chose to take the risk of downloading anime from “unauthorized” sites like fansubs, instead of purchasing Odexâ€s licensed products. We would also like to know the views of the anime fans for their conflict with Odex. This is because we feel that these sources of information will serve significant purposes that help us to derive at a solution that can satisfy the needs of the two parties.

Therefore, we prepared a survey to help us to obtain our objectives. Knowing that you are one of the well-known anime bloggers in Singapore, having over hundreds of people reading it everyday, we would like to seek for your help to publicize our survey to the anime fans through your blog. The link to the survey is: link

We find that this is an excellent method to help us conduct our survey, as we would be able to get enough people to take part in the survey. This will really help us a lot to complete our task.

We sincerely hope that you would answer to our request and we thank you for your time and consideration.

Yours truly,

Tan Yan Sheng

22 August 2007

PS: we hope that this letter will be publicized together with the survey link. thank you very much.

No problem.