Side-eyeing the hell out of fifth option and how many votes it has so far... <_<

Some friends and family are in Japan but they're all okay since the areas they were in weren't that deeply affected. My mother is continuing to update me on what's going on there whenever she can.

That thread has been locked, btw.

But i lived the Chile earthquake last year

My husband has a friend that lives out there and he's okay so that's a relief. Otherwise I'm glued to the BBC feed tracking the after shocks and nuclear reactor situation.

I'm not surprised at how many people are clicking the manga releases option. Some of them are probably just 'hehe this will get a rise out of people' and some of them genuinely only care about their manga releases. The same people who are probably the first ones to say. 'Sure X has carpel tunnel or is in the hospital, but when is their manga going to come out?' A+ on basic human compassion guys.

I don't want to share the earth with some of you selfish people but i'm not surprised. People think about themselves, and if something happens to them they want others to think about them too.

I'm not surprised considering how the thread went, but nearly a quarter of people voting for THAT option?...

Fine, if people don't sympathise with strangers - a shame, but oh well. What's more disconcerting is the way some of us are prioritising certain matters over human life.

I'm not sure that option should have been included. I mean what was the purpose, to show that about 25% of the people are lower than pond scum? This is a terrible disaster with thousands of missing people, after shocks of the quake still occurring, another tsunami is not out of the question and the Japanese are struggling to keep several nuclear reactors from failing. This will be a tragedy for many families and I think the emphasis should be kept on sympathizing with those people.

If i saw the scene on the tv, i really want to curse God why He let it happened.. But i'll still pray for the livings to be safe n sound. And for the depart souls to Rest In Peace.

I choose the "no one I know", because I've never been to Japan before, so I have never met them personally, but that doesn't stop me feeling sympathetic.

I'm honestly perturbed at the high ranking that fifth choice got.
Really, manga and anime have a higher value than peoples lives? And what if your favorite manga happen to end because of them losing their lives because of said-earthquake and said-tsunami triggered by said-earthquake? Are you just going to whine and complain, or are you actually going to start feeling something called "sympathy"?

This is a site for manga, not for sympathy.

I have a lot of international friends/people I know. I know of at least 2 that I communicate with on and off that are okay.

I don't personally know anyone who was affected by the Tsunami in Japan though a friend of a firend of a friend is looking for someone in the Sendai area.

As for the Tsunami...there is localized damage in Oregon, California, Peru, Chile, and Indonesia that I know of.

I'm a bit of a news nerd so I've cultivated a few lists of where to get information. It's too big to put there but:
http://akuma-river.dreamwidth.org/402311.html (my journal post)
http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/7881735.h tml <- live-post where I'm posting relevant tweets

It's hard to listen to NHK http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/index.html or Al Jazeera or Russia Today and not break down in tears as you realize the scale of the damage and the death toll.

I don't think it will be as high as Sumatra's Tsunami...but there are entire villages just gone. The Tsunami went inland 10km in some areas.

This week I've been following the Arab World Protests, Libya's masacre, Wisconsin protests, WikiLeaks, and now Japan's earthquake/tsunami/nuclear power plants meltdown.

This is just...I often find myself having to take breaks from watching the news and reading newspaper live-blogs on it because it gets to you.

Btw estimate death toll >10,000

i wish 25% percent of you a holiday in Sendai.

so much apathy for the peoples suffering. i hope you choke your manga.

i give a shit about my entertainment right now. i just hope japan can get things under control without even more tragedies. however long it takes.

I don't really realise why people think this fifth choice is choking. I mean, I don't see much of a difference between the "No one I know" and the "I don't really know anyone but at least there is the authors of the manga I read who have a "relation" with me", hence, it'll lead to the result that you are indeed worried about those mangaka. Of course, the answer was spelled with "manga" (as in the physical, non-living object", but looking at it, I considered half of it to be of safety for the mangaka itself. And being actually worried about a person you know at least by name is about normal (I'm sorry to say that even if I feel sorry for all the unknowns people in Sendai, it's not much of a shock. Of course, I'll mourn, but if a mangaka I knew died, I would mourn a bit more for him. And just like that, if a person I personally knew died, I'll mourn even more for him. That's basic, humans aren't Saint, so you are "ranking" people depending on how you are related to same (as horrible as it may sound)
Well, of course, there is always straight stupid people who don't care about the well-fare of the people at all, and just really want manga, but I highly doubt it's those 25.7% people (and I would say, I don't care about it, it's not like I'm surprised about it). Well, this long post to say, that I'm actually more surprised at people being offended about it, there is no real need to.
Oh, and just to clear things on my side, I didn't vote for this, I'm in Tokyo and I quite felt it too. Though, sorry for the samaritan people, but I'm not going to do anything special other than continue my life, go to my school everyday, etc... I don't have at all the soul necessary for going to Sendai and helps the people there (and I don't consider that heartless at all)

you said someone personally involved, it can be understood as someone who involved in causing the earthquake. "do you know the earthquake perpetrator?" interdasting!

I was in that Earthquake. I live directly west of it. I have friends on the east coast who are still missing. My entire prefecture went without power for over 24 hours. I have more friends who are at risk from the nuclear plant exploding. My phone and internet were down for over 48 hours so I couldn't even call my family to tell them I'm ok. I have walked those destroyed streets in Sendai. Frankly, I am slightly disheartened by the number of people who's concern lies with manga releases. Thousands of people died! I know it's easy to b detached when you live on the other side of the world, but you could at least have the decency to pretend to care.

I live in southern Japan at the moment, far from the eye. I didn't actually realize it at first, as the tremor was so small I thought it was only my body shaking or something. I realized it was a earthquake a few seconds before it stopped. And even after that, I just went to bed and sleep. Never realized it was a huge earthquake until my family back home skype'd me. Not really feeling the tension, I guess.

I live in SKorea and we're fortunate enough to have virtually no sismic activity. A lot of my friends live or stay in Japan, I got in touch with most of them, but there is still one friend I didn't manage to get in touch with and I'm worried.
For the rest of them who most of them live in Tokyo, other issues are starting from now. Food and water supplies are getting scarce, most of conbini and local supermarket are empty. Transportations are still hetic. Phone service is intermitent, as well as electricity in some areas of Tokyo.
And there's still the threat of nuclear damages.
I'll kept being worried until everything is back to normal.

I was in Sendai for a day and it feels so sad to think that all that I saw there doesn't exist anymore...

Show this poll to the Japanese and see how they think of the people in manga/anime community.

Hmmm I wonder by "I know someone..." can be consider as online friends and utaites living there (.__.) because I'm voting that. I feel like I do know them since I'm stal-- follow them on Twitter. It's so suffocating, this tragedy!

I know a family who affected, foster parents of my friend, they are at the refuge right now. I want to help them but dunno how (

"Nope, but now all the manga releases could be affected "
Is it real? 26.1% of the voters are worried for Japanese releases Disgusting... Thousands of humans are now dead or missing... and quarter of people are worried because of manga...
What about humanity?

I haven't read all the posts but is it true that the creator of pokemon died in the quake?

I picked option 5 not because I'm a heartless piece of shit but quite frankly the only people I collectively know in japan are the creators of manga/anime/games thru their works. I don't know if this makes me sound callow or however you people feel like interpreting this but I can't pick option 4 because frankly just because I don't personally know anyone in japan I still $@#$@# care about the fact that people are dieing. I don't know any of them personally, however I still feel concerned to at the very least the people whose works I've read. So I say to all the commentators above me maybe not everyone is as callow as you believe and maybe that's just the only option we can select to make our concern know,