Well, if you'll recall the results from the age poll a few weeks back, over half of the MU members seem to be age 22 and older. So it isn't altogether surprising that the older demographics receive a notable measure of support.

As to why seinen is so much more popular than josei, presumably the driving factor is that there are roughly four times as many seinen series with English releases than josei... Or perhaps the yaoi contingent is siphoning more votes (and scanlator attention) from josei series than from shoujo?

No one's admitting it but we're a strong demographic, so here I go - I love yaoi. Shounen ai too, but mostly yaoi. I also like some seinen and josei, and a rare few shounen and shoujo but it's yaoi that tops the list.

Then five of the choices are not genres. It's wrong either way.

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Technically, there are only 4 demographics on the list: shounen, shoujo, seinen, and josei.

The rest of them aren't demographics but "themes".

Oh, I don't know... I guess I mostly read shounen and shoujo... Although, lately I've been reading a lot of josei, and while I'm not as well-read in the seinen demographic, I have a couple of long-running series that I regularly keep up with. I also read a lot of yaoi when I'm in the mood for smut, but since so much of it is absolute garbage that I just skim over, I wouldn't call it "reading" so much as "looking at the sexy pictures."

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How about "categories"? I think the question of the poll is pretty clear and it's just an issue of being pedantic here...

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There's no other genre I enjoy as much as stories with some rather cute or attentively serious Shoujo Ai. It's just my thing, I don't like reading the same story over and over again like a lot of the Shoujo and Shounen populating the Mangaverse. But there are always a few exceptions that have some intense complexity to their storytelling or just make some lolz fall like a man just kneed in the Dragon Ball Z that I absolutely have to read. I just have found that I get addicted to Shoujo Ai and Yuri a lot more than the other genres. I don't read Shounen Ai, Hentai, Lolicon, Shotacon, or Yaoi, so I've got no opinion to share there. I just wish I could learn Japanese faster so I can start scanlating a lot of series that others have dropped.

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1) Salty
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3) Italian
4) Green
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I think the question of this poll is pretty clear, and if you don't think so, you're just being pedantic.


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Not true. Just as "young-adult" can be a genre for novels, shonen can be considered a genre for manga. Same for the others although it's a bit of a stretch.

Even if you rape the dictionary definition of the term and claim that a demographic (i.e. target audience) is a genre, it still doesn't change the fact that this poll presents overlapping options as mutually exclusive. I think my post above contains a perfect analogy to demonstrate the silliness in this poll. Of course, if the poll I made up seems reasonable to you, then... well... I'm sorry.

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to end this stupid, discussion:
on THIS site, I repeat. on THIS site those are mutually exclusive, as least they should be when choosing genres, there are like 10 manga if you pick shoujo+yaoi because that wasn't edited correctly (we even had some shounen+shoujo ones).

if you edit a genre you get this:
Demographic (Please pick one only)
Josei Lolicon
Seinen Shotacon
Shoujo Shoujo Ai
Shounen Shounen Ai
Yaoi Yuri

Genre
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@cmertb:
your poll does have nothing to do with this, I guess if you find a site where those choices are mutually exclusive you have a point, but I don't think so (though if you create such a site feel free to make that poll)

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There still are annoyingly many manga that have at least two of those "mutually exclusive" tags though (which absolutely would make sense if they weren't supposed to be mutually exclusive...).

And I can totally understand how it's frustrating to see these terms randomly thrown together and often used wrongly, regardless of that being the standard on this site or not.


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So you're saying it's not the author of the poll, it's this site's classification that's being stupid. How is that better?

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I swear every time I bother to check the weekly poll thread, there's always that guy/group complaining about what a crap poll it is.

Good. Freakin. God.

You don't have to like the poll - and guess what? You don't have to vote either!

You always have to expect that there's gonna be some grammatical/spelling/language error. From what I gather, Lamb usually just copy pastes what he picks from the suggestion thread - suggestions given by the forumites (majority of which, don't have English as their first language). Even though the question and the choices given don't exactly match up, you sorta get what it's trying to get at.
Just fucking chill, don't take it too seriously, and vote if you really feel like it... or if you think that your opinion matters.


My vote would have gone to shounen, but I realized that it isn't the genre I "read the most" as of late. Reason would be because I don't read as many ongoing series as I used to, and that the ones I do read have inconsistent releases...




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At least for me it's more of a basic problem, not only with this poll. Never mind the way Shoujo AI and Shounen AI are used, since that seems to have become normal in English.

The four demographics are fine too, but I don't get why they and the rest are supposed to be mutually exclusive. Like, hentai is not supposed to be lolicon, or shotacon, or yaoi, or yuri.
"Shoujo Ai" is not supposed to be shoujo, seinen, yosei, etc.
Just doesn't make sense to me why it is supposed to be that way.

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