The study of preferred skin color has been accumulated based on long history, be- cause of important theme in color reproduction. However, preferred skin color in anima- tion has been hardly researched. For developing a proposal of color planning for film image based on character’s skin color(Han&Lee, 2014), the study of preferred skin col- or in animation, which has unique trends differed from real skin color’s one, is needed to pay attention as a new theme. In this study, preferred skin color in animation will be clarified. Firstly, skin colors in Japanese studio ghibli’s animation were investigated for making sure of the range of skin color in real animation fields. Showing still images of animations on a monitor, skin colors of the images were measured by a luminance meter. Because skin colors’ in the animations were wider than real skin colors’ one, strong effects of memory color could be considered. Secondly, preferred skin color of animation facial images was researched by rank order method. In the same experi- ment’s condition, subjects determined the raking of preferred skin color using facial im- ages and rectangle color chips. The ranked orders of preferred skin color were calcu- lated as Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. The differences between facial images and rectangle color chips were identified, comparing the rank correlation coefficients. Through the psychological physical experiment, existences of preferred skin color in animation were ensured. Moreover, possibilities to database for color reproduction of animations were identified.