Oddly enough, we never had a poll that broke down your gender and your preferred demographic, so good suggestion, jonytep!

You can submit poll ideas here (and try to keep them manga/anime-related)
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Should manga characters change their clothing, outfit, appearance?
Choices:
Stick with the same appearance throughout the entire series - votes: 93 (1.1%)
Only change appearances to signify the passage of a lot of time - votes: 1518 (17.3%)
Maybe a change between every story arc is fine - votes: 1801 (20.6%)
I'm okay with several changes within the same arc, but let's not go crazy - votes: 3683 (42%)
Every day that passes should be a new look! Like real life! - votes: 1666 (19%)
There were 8761 total votes.
The poll ended: July 18th 2015

Seems like more prefer a change in appearance than not. I guess it's boring looking at the same old character every time

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Pretty sure "I'm male and I prefer seinen" is going to win this one.

Personally, I never even notice the demographic; it's the genres I'm concerned about. (I'm female) I think there are a lot of girls like that, but most guys probably filter shoujo and josei from their searches and even the release list. Not that I think there aren't any girls who do the same for shounen/seinen, but the number is considerably less, imo. And I bet there are girls who filter shoujo/josei (especially shoujo), but I can't imagine any guy not reading seinen. (There may be some who filter shounen for being too "childish," though)

Both shoujo and josei are filtered over twice as much as seinen, according to genre stats.

Should have added the choice "I'm male/female and I don't care about demographic". Since that would have been my answer I can't chose one amount the 8.

I voted male/josei, which is the truth based on my favourite series.

This is a good poll! I wanted to believe that Josei manga were somehow popular with men, but this poll opened my eyes: the're not. At least they are higher than shojo....

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Yaaay!

I'm male and I prefer seinen. The stories are usually more mature and the comedy is not so silly.

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I am male and all in for seinen. I only filter yaoi,shounen ai,yuri and shoujo ai. As for shoujo I am fine with it

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Without even thinking twice, I'm male and I prefer Seinen as my 1st choice...and Shounen is 2nd choice...
I do really enjoy Shounen, as I'll never get old or bored watching/reading them...but, nothing beats Seinen as a whole demographic...

WooHoo! Male audiences are winning(as the scenario supposed to be)...Way to goo...LoL ^^

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I'm not voting, mainly b/c I can't choose! I read a good mix of the four. I usually don't pick based on demographic, but by categories (like "school life", "supernatural", "action", and so on) and the blurb or other reader reviews.

Voted for female/seinen since I'm now more likely to read that than not, though it was a hard choice between that and shounen, there are just some really good shounen out there. Though again, like Calstine said, I usually pay more attention to genres than demographics.

What I'm wondering now is how many people who can't choose a demographic are female and how many are male. I'm willing to bet that more of them are female especially when looking at the stats of this poll, there's more of a bell curve and less of a "mountain" curve when you look at female preferences.

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Seinen and shounen can be different yet josei and shoujo are nearly the same thing but i made fun of demographics enough on this site and i only consider them at the back of my mind. What i look at instead is the magazines where the demographic is derived form as these do matter. Young Animal for example can features 50% of quality series at a time yet the sister magazine Young Animal Arashi can drown in ditch.
Seinen finaly went out of my "Likes (From Public Lists Only)" listing about a month ago but it still should be No.4 or something. Meaning I'm male and I prefer Seinen it is.
The google definition prefer: like (one thing or person) better than another or others; tend to choose. synonyms: like better, would rather (have), would sooner (have), favour, be more partial to, lean/incline towards, think preferable

I never cared about who exactly a work targets even when i was young as i watched R-rated movies since kindergarten yet i also watched shoujo anime since at least grade school to stay on topic. I am also not sute how long the japanese comic market can keep holding on to these with the death of print (and thus anthology magazines) and the rise of web publications. The American comic market for example borderline abolished such notions over the last 2 decades and one thing i learned on the job is that you never know which genre is mostly read by whom. Historical books for example are mostly read by women over 30. Yet my preferred historical, military, noir, psychological, sci-fi and anti-hero tales are predominately published in seinen publication so my calling card will stay.
I care about josei the least as that one barely exists but i wouldn´t be surprised if i currently followed about the same amount of ongoing shounen and shoujo publications.

If shounen doesn´t win (and it won´t) then i will only be reassured again that the MU community doesn't represent the manga reading market in the least. Or at least our polls as manga is predominately a medium for children and young adults after all.
Take that as you will.

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I'm none of your business and I prefer a good story with a great plot and relatable characters.

There's some excellent josei and shoujo out there, but it's rarer than unicorns. The vast majority of it is either excessively maudlin or sociopathic, the kind of tripe that makes mindless and generic T&A harems look like works of high art.

It's odd because the absolute best shounen and seinen authors are women; like Katou Kazue, Tanabe Yellow, Hoshino Katsura, Chrono Nanae, Mizunagi Ryuu, Arakawa Hiromu, Amano Kozue, Mori Kaoru, Irie Aki and of course Takahashi Rumiko just to name a few.
So why is it that women can write such fantastic male-oriented stories, but hardly any worthwhile female-oriented stuff?

My reading list is more or less divided between shounen and seinen. I checked some series that I really like, and there are both shounen and seinen among them. I chose "I'm male and I prefer Shounen" because picking the other choice would make me feel like I'm saying I'm too old/mature for shounen. That said, if I had to pick which genre I would search first for new reading material, it would be seinen. ...... Now I feel like I should've picked the other choice to begin with.

I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention Yoshikawa Miki who's enjoying a surge of popularity right now with her "Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches"; and the utterly amazing and fantastic Kubo Mitsurou (Tokkyuu!!, Moteki, Again!), who understands the male psyche better than any male author I've ever read.

I didn't really like this poll, but voted according to my current reading list. I am also a big fan of josei. Anything geared toward an older audience, but I'd be lying if I said there haven't been shounen and shoujo I've liked.