Happy Valentine's Day to all you manga lovers! Just look at all that shoujo that's been released today...And to all you losers (including myself), have a happy SAD (Single's Awareness Day). >_>...
In honor of the occasion (and because it's a Saturday, at least for me), we have a new poll! You know what to do!
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=10303
And if you got some interesting poll ideas, please submit them here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Make your own manga series?
Choices:
I already did/tried! - votes: 828 (8.1%)
I got some great ideas for a story, but I can't draw - votes: 3369 (33.2%)
I can draw, but I don't have good plot ideas... - votes: 682 (6.7%)
I wish... but no skills at all... - votes: 1931 (19%)
No thanks. I'll stick to just reading manga - votes: 3352 (33%)
There were 10162 total votes.
The poll ended: February 14th 2009
Wow, lots of people have some great (supposedly) ideas for a plot! And quite a few have already tried. I wish you great success if you're an amateur~ (and if you're a hidden professional...hahaha)
On a happier note than the last news post, NINOMIYA Tomoko (Nodame Cantabile) has revealed that she is recovering from her carpal tunnel syndrome and will return to work on March 10th. We wish her good luck and hopefully nothing like this happens again~
For more information, visit AnimeNewsNetwork
Apparently, today, Meep-Scans is closing its doors to the scanlation world. We wish the rest of you well on your endeavors.
In related news, ShoujoMagic, one of the oldest and most esteemed shoujo scanlation groups, will also possibly shut down soon. Visit their site for more details.
Edit: The reason behind the closing of Meep-Scans is the following:
They were sent a Cease and Desist letter from [sitelink=publishers.html?id=44]Daiwon[/sitelink], the legal publisher (in Korea) of most/all of their projects.
Reminder: Scanlators DO operate outside copyright laws. No matter how you justify it, scanlations are illegal (even if the series is not licensed in your country)
This poll was actually submitted earlier today by our member oneSeasonDream. Ever wanted to make your own manga series? For me, no way...I prefer reading than attempting to activate the creative portion of my mind.
You can discuss this poll on our forums here (maybe even post your own manga series ideas, eh?):
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=10207
And if you got some interesting poll ideas, please submit them here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Top reason for dropping a manga series?
Choices:
It got boring/lost interest - votes: 5511 (49.2%)
The art was ugly - votes: 927 (8.3%)
Slow releases - votes: 1634 (14.6%)
Story was turning bad - votes: 1770 (15.8%)
Series just kept going on and on... - votes: 1055 (9.4%)
Just didn't have time to read it anymore - votes: 307 (2.7%)
There were 11204 total votes.
The poll ended: February 7th 2009
Well, in my opinion, the choices were pretty similar...
This poll was submitted by our member StarlightDreams. So why would you drop a manga series? Just choose your top choice, please. (And I realize that there isn't a whole broad spectrum of choices either).
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=10088
And if you got some interesting poll ideas, please submit them here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you use our manga lists feature?
Choices:
Yes! - votes: 5186 (60.4%)
No... - votes: 673 (7.8%)
Uhhh, what's that? - votes: 2725 (31.7%)
There were 8584 total votes.
The poll ended: January 31st 2009
So many people use the list feature! That's a good thing! For those of you that don't know what I'm talking about. First, you need to be a registered member of this site (it's free and easy!). Then on the right menu, click "My Lists". You can create lists for the manga you're reading so that it's easier to keep track of things.
More features to come hopefully soon~
To the Asians who use celebrate the lunar calender:
Gung Hay Fat Choy!
(Cantonese, a dialect of Chinese, which is my own ethnicity)
Year of the ox~
This poll's done for our own purposes...
Previous Poll Results:
Question: What is the longest you have gone without reading any manga (after you started reading for the first time)?
Choices:
Less than a day - votes: 703 (6.5%)
A few days - votes: 2318 (21.4%)
A week or so - votes: 4325 (39.9%)
A few months - votes: 2795 (25.8%)
A year or more - votes: 689 (6.4%)
There were 10830 total votes.
The poll ended: January 24th 2009
Quite varied results. No comment at the people who need a life and read manga every single day
Whoa, I'm posting in the news. This is scary - what to say!
We just added support for editing custom list titles and descriptions, as well as setting
each list to be a specific type (reading, wish, complete, or unfinished).
So hopefully nothing breaks. If it does, we've got this topic going in the forum, so please
let us know!
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=452
Also, feel free to make suggestions too. I know I like hearing them, and since I'm new
here (less than a year) I haven't heard them all a million times like Manick and
lambsies. So maybe you can get me all excited about something that they're rolling their
eyes over hearing for the 800,000th time, and actually make it happen. ^_^
Kaioh writes: *Manga artist NINOMIYA Tomoko reported on her personal blog on Tuesday that she has carpal tunnel syndrome, and thus has continued to put her Nodame Cantabile series on hold. She said that her hand would get numb when she tried to write words a month after she gave birth to a boy on October 24. The symptoms gradually spread to both arms to the point that there was swelling and eventually pain, especially in the morning when she woke up. She went to a doctor who confirmed the diagnosis.
Ninomiya took time off from her manga drawing in October, the last month of her pregnancy, to have her baby. After her baby was born on October 24, she reported in a November 3 blog entry that she could not raise her right arm because an unknown pain in her shoulder and arm.
From AnimeNewsNetwork*
(This is posted because there is no point complaining about MU on an IRC channel that is not associated with MU, which someone did and flamed me and my staff)
If you have a question, concern, comment, complaint, suggestion, etc about anything that deals with this site, please direct it at me (lambchopsil). All you need to do is [sitelink=convo.html?act=create&to=lambchopsil]private message[/sitelink] me.
Don't bother going to Manick, since he probably won't answer quickly (sorry, Manick~)
Of course, you may also put it in our [sitelink=topics.php?fid=3837]Suggestions & Bugs[/sitelink] forum
For instance, there may be a mistake in the database. Or you may be dissatisfied with your Change Request. Or you're wondering why your release, group, or series was rejected (this is because we usually don't tell you why your thing broke our policies)
