Advanced Professional and I think I need help.

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lol I'm just professional and I think I need help!

I'd say I'm around rookie or maybe even intermediate amateur. I can't remember how many series I have read, or am "reading". Still, I' think I have read a good deal of manga since I started, how the heck have you people been able to read 1,5-3 THOUSAND series? I mean s***... How many hours is that?

I thought I read a lot of manga, apparently I'm only an amateur. I can't quite imagine how someone can amass over 3000 series.

I suppose oneshots don't count. What about anthologies?
I.e. One-volume-"series" with mostly oneshots in them, though there might be connections between them or two might be chapters of the same story but the others unrelated.
There's also stuff like Salad Days: Is it an Anthology? A Series? Multiple series thrown into a pot together with lots of oneshots?
Also, what about discontinued series?
I didn't count those for now, so I guess I'm an advanced amateur, but if anthologies and discontinued series count (discounting those that I read less than half of), I'm easily an intermediate professional
As for the AMVs: Sure, I did google it, but chose to vote ignorance because I had no clue before I did that. Still not interested

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That is a pretty high bar and that is coming from a guy who has been collecting for 20 years now. Unless you count hentai, I doubt I'd make it past rookie.

I'm technically a professional but don't really feel like it. (I'd probably be an advanced professional if I managed to keep track of all the hentai I've read). Well I feel like one in the case that I have trouble finding new manga to read, but that's mostly because I'm a picky reader who's mainly interested in one genre. I used to read manga every day, but now that I have trouble finding new ones that interest me, I might not read manga for a week or two.

This poll sets the bars far too high. Once you pass the 100 mark, you aren't a casual fan anymore. Probably well before that, maybe at two dozen. The labels for this poll (amateur, professional) are weird and meaningless in this context. The categories are diced too finely. Why not just Beginner, Rookie, Intermediate, Advanced, Sensei? I'd have done something more like this:
0-10Beginner
11-100Novice
101-500Apprentice
501-1000Journeyman
1001-upSensei

For the past 6 years since I started reading manga, it's been all manga all the time. I eat sleep dream manga, post about it, read about it, research it, collect it. I go to conventions and do presentations. People who know me run away screaming or back away slowly when I get started talking about it. I'm more of a manga otaku than anyone else I've met IRL. Yet according to the measures of this poll, I'm an amateur? Because I've read merely a ridiculously huge amount of manga, instead of an insanely astronomical amount?

I know, don't like the poll, don't vote. I'm going to vote "Professional" because that's where I feel I'm at, so there. Not "Sensei", because there are a lot of important titles in my interest that I yet to read, and many more that I have no interest in reading. BTW, I've received financial renumeration for my presentations, which is the definition of a professional.


I think this is a terrific goal. Maybe not the top 50, but the top 10 or 20. Too many people only read in their own interests, and so do I.

True but at the same time, it's by having read a sizable amount of crap mangas as well that I know what's crap and isn't crap now. Having read so many stories of different qualities help me build up a certain knowledge about the relationship of period settings, stories and the characters so I don't get hung up on or question certain things that noobs get bothered over. Also, it's fun to find the diamond in the rough after scavenging too.

Probably intermediate professional, if I take every manga I've read, including stuff that I couldn't finish (no more releases), gotten tired of, oneshots, and hentai >__>

But realistically, I only follow >100 series.