Back to the normal user-suggested polls! This week's poll was rooted in an idea our member DragonReader had, but it's not quite what he had suggested. Basically we're asking about the most common thing you do when you get a mild sickness, such as a cold or the flu.

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: Best Josei
Choices:
Nodame Cantabile - votes: 1121 (19%)
07-Ghost - votes: 1014 (17.2%)
Chihayafuru - votes: 623 (10.6%)
Kuragehime - votes: 538 (9.1%)
Cheese in the Trap - votes: 529 (9%)
7 Seeds - votes: 486 (8.3%)
Gokusen - votes: 483 (8.2%)
Sakamichi no Apollon - votes: 444 (7.5%)
14-sai no Koi - votes: 381 (6.5%)
Bokura no Kiseki - votes: 267 (4.5%)
There were 5886 total votes.
The poll ended: October 10th 2015

Not as many votes as the other polls, but that's to be expected.

93 people for 99 series. People just don't seem to read as much josei...

Here are the nominations that almost made the cut:
Annarasumanara
Usagi Drop
Paradise Kiss
Honey and Clover
Hapi Mari
Karneval

If you're curious what happened 6 years ago:
Nodame Cantabile - votes: 3200 (34.7%)
Midnight Secretary - votes: 2134 (23.1%)
Paradise Kiss - votes: 1326 (14.4%)
Kimi wa Pet - votes: 1321 (14.3%)
Usagi Drop - votes: 1245 (13.5%)
There were 9226 total votes.
The poll ended: September 26th 2009

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: Best Seinen
Choices:
Berserk - votes: 1829 (21%)
Tokyo Ghoul - votes: 1756 (20.1%)
One Punch Man - votes: 1515 (17.4%)
Monster - votes: 766 (8.8%)
Liar Game - votes: 616 (7.1%)
Hoshi no Samidare - votes: 498 (5.7%)
Vinland Saga - votes: 492 (5.6%)
Kingdom - votes: 452 (5.2%)
Vagabond - votes: 400 (4.6%)
Oyasumi Punpun - votes: 394 (4.5%)
There were 8718 total votes.
The poll ended: October 2nd 2015

The interesting thing was that the winner from 6 years ago was xxxHoLic, which scored pretty low during the nomination process.

137 people for 216 unique series.

Here are the series that got a lot of nominations but didn't quite make the cut:
Real
Tokyo Ghoul:re
Otoyomegatari
20th Century Boys
Parasyte

If you're curious what happened 6 years ago:
xxxHoLic - votes: 3763 (34.6%)
Berserk - votes: 3099 (28.5%)
Yotsubato! - votes: 1609 (14.8%)
Mushishi - votes: 1215 (11.2%)
Vagabond - votes: 1180 (10.9%)
There were 10866 total votes.
The poll ended: September 19th 2009

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: Best Shoujo
Choices:
Ouran High School Host Club - votes: 1385 (16.4%)
Skip Beat! - votes: 1336 (15.8%)
Natsume Yuujinchou - votes: 1070 (12.7%)
Akatsuki no Yona - votes: 935 (11.1%)
Akagami no Shirayuki-hime - votes: 540 (6.4%)
Last Game - votes: 509 (6%)
Ao Haru Ride - votes: 461 (5.5%)
Love So Life - votes: 415 (4.9%)
Kamisama Hajimemashita - votes: 395 (4.7%)
Basara - votes: 385 (4.6%)
Oresama Teacher - votes: 328 (3.9%)
Chang Ge Xing - votes: 236 (2.8%)
Koi dano Ai dano - votes: 235 (2.8%)
Glass Mask - votes: 206 (2.4%)
There were 8436 total votes.
The poll ended: September 26th 2015

For a while there it looked like Skip Beat was gonna win again. Guess not!

For Shoujo, we had 135 people give nominations for 196 unique series. This one doesn't have a clear cut winner, so no elimination of any series!

Here are the series that got a lot of nominations but didn't quite make the cut:
Fruits Basket
Ore Monogatari!!
Mars
Kaichou wa Maid-sama!
1/2 Prince
Kare Kano
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun

If you're curious what happened 6 years ago:
Skip Beat! - votes: 4023 (31.8%)
Ouran High School Host Club (Ouran Koukou Host Club) - votes: 3211 (25.4%)
Fruits Basket (Furuba) - votes: 2839 (22.4%)
Hana Kimi (Hanazakari no Kimitachi e) - votes: 1447 (11.4%)
Mars - votes: 1140 (9%)
There were 12660 total votes.
The poll ended: September 12th 2009

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: Best Shounen (besides One Piece)
Choices:
Fullmetal Alchemist - votes: 3149 (27.1%)
Hunter x Hunter - votes: 1549 (13.4%)
Naruto - votes: 1140 (9.8%)
Gintama - votes: 1117 (9.6%)
Attack on Titan - votes: 1025 (8.8%)
Shokugeki no Soma - votes: 934 (8.1%)
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun - votes: 643 (5.5%)
Horimiya - votes: 630 (5.4%)
Black Butler - votes: 604 (5.2%)
Pandora Hearts - votes: 458 (3.9%)
Magi - The Labyrinth of Magic - votes: 350 (3%)
There were 11599 total votes.
The poll ended: September 18th 2015

And FMA wins! In case you never noticed, my forum avatar is from FMA.

We had 163 people who nominated the Best Shounen series! Each person was allowed up to 5 nominations, and they gave 208 unique series. One Piece basically automatically wins this one (which is also what happened 6 years ago) since almost 30% of the people nominated it for being the best. So in the interest of making the poll more intense, it's not one of the choices anymore!

Here are the series that got a lot of nominations but didn't quite make the cut:
Yotsubato!
Barakamon
Death Note
Kubera
D.Gray-man
Haikyu!!
Mahou Tsukai no Yome
Slam Dunk
Fairy Tail

If you're curious what happened 6 years ago:
One Piece - votes: 4138 (28.5%)
Fullmetal Alchemist - votes: 3455 (23.8%)
Death Note - votes: 2917 (20.1%)
Great Teacher Onizuka - votes: 2180 (15%)
Claymore - votes: 1812 (12.5%)
There were 14502 total votes.
The poll ended: September 5th 2009

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: If manga or novels were to be released freely online legally but was paid for by non-intrusive ads, would you support them by clicking on the ads?
Choices:
No, ad-blocker all the way - votes: 2788 (32.8%)
Yes, I'd click them all the time - votes: 733 (8.6%)
Yes, I'd click them once per chapter - votes: 2036 (24%)
Yes, but very seldom - votes: 2937 (34.6%)
There were 8494 total votes.
The poll ended: September 12th 2015

If you look at the order of the votes, they're in increasing order of more ads

This week's poll is by a different user (his username is "different", get it?). Anyways, it deals with your feelings about ads when visiting websites, in particular when the ad revenue is used to support free and legal online manga.

The "Best of" Polls will start next week. See the previous news post for more details about nominations.

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: If there was a maid cafe near you, would you visit it?
Choices:
Sure, I'd visit a lot! No shame - votes: 2185 (23.6%)
As long as no one else found out... - votes: 702 (7.6%)
I'd give it a try and that's it - votes: 4562 (49.4%)
Never - votes: 1794 (19.4%)
There were 9243 total votes.
The poll ended: September 5th 2015

Wow, I'm surprised that more people chose the visiting lots option instead of the never option. Being called "master" just sounds so weird though...

It was about 6 years ago since we did our last (and only) "Best of" polls for shounen, shoujo, seinen, and josei. The nomination process will be done through Google Forms, and it will require you to log in with a Google account. In a few weeks, I'll close the nomination forms and we'll get started on using the site poll on MU to vote. For each poll, the choices will be the top 10 nominations for each category.

Shounen: http://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fom70QH6rKgjh1kJjxvtvK2fy14TXE_CcyCEa9cU0v4/viewform?usp=send_form
Shoujo: http://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r7CfHjdu6pFPbehr-g5XIPbUPtLtM1NGRpdVj-OnbKw/viewform?usp=send_form
Seinen: http://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zY5HhUlcN-eQ9GEtxV9NIVupWv3N3aN5P5TQdjdMz9s/viewform?usp=send_form
Josei: http://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KhfFTJmlpXiDtWkwX1RxYRh3H7RkTclg-axT126KJiw/viewform?usp=send_form

Winners from 6 years ago:
Shounen: One Piece
Shoujo: Skip Beat!
Seinen: xxxHoLic
Josei: Nodame Cantabile

Edit: Closed

This week's poll is from FormX, and it deals with maid cafes. Any of you read Kaichou wa Maid-sama!?

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: Of the physical manga you own, how did you obtain most of them?
Choices:
Online retailer (Amazon, etc) - votes: 1807 (20.8%)
Online marketplace (Ebay, etc) - votes: 200 (2.3%)
At conventions - votes: 267 (3.1%)
Local major retailer (Barnes & Noble, etc) - votes: 1854 (21.3%)
Local smaller retailer - votes: 1138 (13.1%)
Book / Magazine stand - votes: 494 (5.7%)
Other - votes: 386 (4.4%)
I don't own physical manga - votes: 2540 (29.2%)
There were 8686 total votes.
The poll ended: August 29th 2015

I remember when Borders was still around. Sigh...

This week's poll was suggested by RocketDive. Amazingly we've never had this question before. For myself, I only own < 5 volumes of manga, and all of them were purchased during Anime Expo in bulk.

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: What is Anime / Manga to you?
Choices:
A new endeavor - votes: 112 (1.2%)
An ongoing hobby - votes: 6124 (64.2%)
A lifestyle - votes: 2074 (21.7%)
A former or declining pastime - votes: 1229 (12.9%)
There were 9539 total votes.
The poll ended: August 22nd 2015

Well, a lot of you guys still keep up with stuff, unlike me...

This introspective poll was suggested by fellow admin Kaioh. I'll admit that I chose the last option "A former or declining pastime." I've been debating on retiring from MU for a while now...sigh...

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: How available is published manga in your native language and/or country?
Choices:
In most major book stores - votes: 3930 (48.6%)
Only in specialty stores - votes: 2300 (28.4%)
Can only purchase physical copies online (and shipping is reasonable) - votes: 559 (6.9%)
Only official digital releases - votes: 152 (1.9%)
No publications in my language and/or country - votes: 1150 (14.2%)
There were 8091 total votes.
The poll ended: August 15th 2015

Even though availability may be high, based on past polls, you guys feel that the price is too high and don't actually buy that much...