A poll of my own creation, no matter how sucky it is...Choose your preferred medium that you could read manga on, if all were available to you. (I'm probably missing some choices, but oh well).
[color=red]Edit:
Due to popular demand, the poll has been rephrased to include any language you like, not just your native language[/color]
You can discuss this poll on our forum here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=8779
Previous Poll Results:
Question: What do you think of people that "love" or are "obsessed" with manga / anime characters a little too much?
Choices:
Life is a ***** and I agree with them, 2D beats 3D any day of the week - votes: 1722 (14.3%)
Being a fan is not wrong, but when you love and want to marry them ... you went a little too far - votes: 7460 (61.9%)
Why do you love MY character? He/She is MINE! - votes: 940 (7.8%)
You should never get that obsessed over a someone you can never touch - votes: 1938 (16.1%)
There were 12060 total votes.
The poll ended: November 15th 2008
The majority of people are sane. That's good.
As for the other people, I wish you the best of luck
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Yes, I realize that the poll is really long and hard to read this time. No two ways about it. Probably less people will vote on this one since they're lazy and don't wanna read such a long poll...
This particular question was submitted by Chaoswind (with some modifications to the original suggestion).
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=8671
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Did you cosplay/dress-up for Halloween within the last week?
Choices:
Yup, as someone related to Japanese anime / manga / games - votes: 724 (7%)
Yeah, but not anything anime-related - votes: 1497 (14.4%)
Nope, but I still got tons of candy! - votes: 1433 (13.8%)
Nope, I don't celebrate Halloween - votes: 6736 (64.8%)
There were 10390 total votes.
The poll ended: November 8th 2008
Well, obviously we all knew which choice was gonna get the most votes...But it's still interesting to see the number of people that celebrate Halloween on this site. I'm wondering what you guys dressed up as though...
First off, I'd like to give a shout out to fotc of Dynasty Scans and ami of SCX-Scans. They're two fellow scanlators of mine whom I've met in person at UCLA (my current home community)! Two great people to talk to in and out of class and our anime club (although I feel they're more pro-otaku than I am since I can't read an ounce of Japanese/Chinese to save my life). And there's also anpan of Maximum7, but I haven't seen him since school started because he's so busy...
Perhaps I'll meet more of you guys in the future, eh? AnimeExpo 2009 for sure!
(Or if you're reading this and you attend UCLA's anime club, come meet us! Just pm me about it for more details)
Holiday time, so we have a holiday poll! Pretty straight-forward if you ask me. I'm guessing that most people don't celebrate it though (like me...)
You can discuss all your crazy costumes on our forum!
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=8574
Previous Poll Results
Question: Have you ever stayed up all night reading manga?
Choices:
Maybe once or twice, but I don't do it that often - votes: 4227 (32.7%)
That's how I spend (almost) every night - votes: 1585 (12.3%)
No, I need my beauty sleep - votes: 779 (6%)
Maybe not all night...but just really late... - votes: 6343 (49%)
There were 12934 total votes.
The poll ended: November 1st 2008
Most of us like to read our manga any time of the day, haha
Unwrap all those candies and start chewing! To all you party animals, stay safe and be smart about what you do.
(One of my roommates came in drunk after a party. Another didn't even come back for the night...)
Kaioh writes: *The December issue (on sale on November 4) of [sitelink=publishers.html?id=163]Shueisha[/sitelink]'s Jump Square magazine will reportedly announce that KONOMI Takeshi will start a new manga series for Prince of Tennis in the April issue (on sale on March 4). The purported advertisement from the Jump Square issue says that everything in The Prince of Tennis up to now has been "prologue" and that "a new legend for [the main character] Ryoma and the others will begin." Konomi ended the original manga series in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine last March after almost nine years and 379 installments. However, he has been soliciting new assistant artists since early August.
Jump Square already announced that a new "tribute" manga called Houkago no Oujisama (The Prince of Afterschool) will launch in the December issue on November 4. The same issue will have a poster, the launch of a new series of feature articles on The Prince of Tennis musical, and a giveaway for musical tickets. The second volume in the third animated video series shipped this month, and the musical version continues to run in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. Viz Media will publish the 28th of the 42 manga volumes in North America next month.
Source: Golden Times Sokuhō via New Akiba
Taken from: AnimeNewsNetwork*
bozou writes: *SHIMOTSUKI Kairi, the artist of Brave 10 and the first manga series based on the Sengoku Basara (Devil Kings) action games, has launched the Death Edge manga in the December issue of [sitelink=publishers.html?id=113]ASCII MediaWorks[/sitelink]' Dengeki Maoh magazine on Monday. The new fantasy manga centers on "angels" who are fighting a holy war in the fictional modern town of Kamishiro. The magazine's website has posted the entire first installment online.
Source: Muhyojo
Taken from: AnimeNewsNetwork*
bozou writes: *[sitelink=publishers.html?id=113]MediaWorks[/sitelink]' Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine has published the ending of TSUNASHIMA Shirou's Jinki - Shinsetsu robot manga series in its December issue, which went on sale on Monday. Tunasima published the original Jinki manga in [sitelink=publishers.html?id=55]Enix[/sitelink]'s Monthly Gangan Wing from 2000 to 2001. He then renamed his manga Jinki: Extend during a move to [sitelink=publishers.html?id=107]Mag Garden[/sitelink]'s Monthly Comic Blade magazine from 2002 to 2006. Jinki moved again to MediaWorks' magazine this year, after Tunasima pulled the manga from Mag Garden over creative differences in 2007.
Shinya Inase's manga adaptation of YONETANI Yoshitomo's Hoshi no Umi no Amuri science fiction video anime series has also ended in Comic Dengeki Daioh's December issue.
Source: Muhyojo
Taken from: AnimeNewsNetwork*
bozou writes: *This year's 48th issue of [sitelink=publishers.html?id=100]Kodansha[/sitelink]'s Young Magazine has announced on Monday that CHIBA Tetsuya, the acclaimed artist of the Ashita no Joe boxing manga, will create a 90-page manga called Tomogaki. The new manga will mark the 50th anniversary of Chiba's major professional debut and the 40 anniversary of Ashita no Joe's manga launch. It will be split into two parts in Young Magazine.
Source: Muhyojo
Taken from: AnimeNewsNetwork*
Earlier this year (March to be precise), Tokyopop Germany sent out a list of
230 manga titles (both licensed and unlicensed titles) to manga scanlators
and download sites, and requested the listed titled be removed.
Fast forward to October, Kuriousity
has revisited the list of manga and concluded that out of the 230 titles,
27 titles have not been officially licensed yet.
Check here for the full list, and
here for the list of 27
titles not yet licensed.
Source: Kuriousity
Well, during the initial suggestion of this poll, several other people really liked it, so why not put it up here? This was originally suggested by our member pearlized. At what lengths would you go to read your manga? Well, this poll is only about sleeping, but...(I don't wanna hear that you would murder a bookstore clerk to read manga)
You can discuss this poll on our forums here: http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=8455
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Your gender?
Choices:
Male - votes: 6778 (48.9%)
Female - votes: 7080 (51.1%)
There were 13858 total votes.
The poll ended: October 25th 2008
When we did this poll last year, we got about 1000 more votes, but that poll lasted almost a whole month, as opposed to a single week here. And as all of you can see, the girls dominate.
