This week's poll is from Karonhioktha. You ever get tired of manga? Maybe you just got too busy due to school, work, or life in general? What's the longest break from manga that you've taken?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Pokemon Go Team
Choices:
Instinct (Yellow) - votes: 715 (8.3%)
Mystic (Blue) - votes: 1533 (17.8%)
Valor (Red) - votes: 991 (11.5%)
Used to play, but not playing anymore - votes: 227 (2.6%)
Want to play, but doesn't work on my phone - votes: 1104 (12.8%)
Not playing since not available in my country - votes: 932 (10.8%)
Not playing because I'm not interested - votes: 3102 (36.1%)
There were 8604 total votes.
The poll ended: July 23rd 2016

Mystic is pretty popular! And since the poll was made, the game came out for a bunch more countries, so I bet the results would be different if we did the poll again.

Pokemon Go is taking over phones by the storm, so Vesey suggested we do a poll about it.

Edit: Remade the poll to include a few more options

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: How do you prefer translations of jokes/puns?
Choices:
Literal translation and no explanation in a translation note - votes: 94 (1.3%)
Literal translation with a translation note on the side - votes: 3904 (55.9%)
Replaced with equivalent English joke/pun but with translation note on the side - votes: 2836 (40.6%)
Replaced with English joke/pun and no indication of not being literal translation - votes: 154 (2.2%)
There were 6988 total votes.
The poll ended: July 16th 2016

All you translators, take note

This week's poll about translations was suggested by Shonaiula. When you read a scanlation, do you prefer the dynamic or formal equivalence for jokes and puns, as well as what's your view on translation notes for said jokes/puns?

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Question: You are the demon king/queen. The humans send heroes to fight you. You...
Choices:
Wait in your lair and send out all your minions first - votes: 376 (4.8%)
Personally do battle right away. The heroes' first battle should be the final boss - votes: 970 (12.5%)
Talk your way out and convince them to leave you alone - votes: 495 (6.4%)
Leave a decoy in your place make them think they defeated you - votes: 1309 (16.8%)
Try to form an alliance with the humans and end the war - votes: 1383 (17.8%)
Attack all the other humans while the heroes are away - votes: 882 (11.3%)
Infiltrate the party of heroes and turn them against each other - votes: 2038 (26.2%)
Run away from the heroes every time - votes: 328 (4.2%)
There were 7781 total votes.
The poll ended: July 8th 2016

Infiltration and peace were the top choices. Now if you were an alien, the best way to dismantle humanity would be to infiltrate the upper echelons... Unless you were facing Key and Peele.

This week's poll was suggested by a drunkguy (just kidding, that's the username). It's related to a poll back in March about an opposite situation. The assumption here is that you are the leader of the demons and are opposed by the humans, so what do you do?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: What's your current relationship status?
Choices:
Married - votes: 455 (4.5%)
Divorced - votes: 59 (0.6%)
Separated - votes: 32 (0.3%)
Widowed - votes: 50 (0.5%)
Engaged - votes: 136 (1.3%)
In a serious dating relationship - votes: 762 (7.5%)
In a relationship that's not that serious - votes: 234 (2.3%)
Single for now, but have previously had a dating relationship - votes: 2049 (20.1%)
Have always been single - votes: 6403 (62.9%)
There were 10180 total votes.
The poll ended: July 1st 2016

It's pretty crazy how the majority of you have always been single, yet romance as a genre is one of the most popular ones here. And over 80% are currently single... (which actually includes myself, by the way, haha)

This week's poll is from sara.. (yes, the two periods are part of the username). Pretty straight forward survey question. I originally thought about adding more options about if you had kids or not but decided against diluting the options any further.

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Genre you most avoid (aka least favorite)
Choices:
Action - votes: 66 (0.7%)
Adventure - votes: 29 (0.3%)
Comedy - votes: 39 (0.4%)
Drama - votes: 79 (0.8%)
Ecchi - votes: 877 (9.4%)
Fantasy - votes: 48 (0.5%)
Gender Bender - votes: 1149 (12.3%)
Harem - votes: 1015 (10.9%)
Hentai - votes: 1106 (11.8%)
Historical - votes: 226 (2.4%)
Horror - votes: 829 (8.9%)
Martial Arts - votes: 101 (1.1%)
Mecha - votes: 928 (9.9%)
Mystery - votes: 32 (0.3%)
Psychological - votes: 107 (1.1%)
Romance - votes: 218 (2.3%)
School Life - votes: 63 (0.7%)
Sci-Fi - votes: 100 (1.1%)
Slice of Life - votes: 119 (1.3%)
Smut - votes: 577 (6.2%)
Sports - votes: 609 (6.5%)
Supernatural - votes: 37 (0.4%)
Tragedy - votes: 985 (10.5%)
There were 9339 total votes.
The poll ended: June 24th 2016

I'm actually really surprised that Gender Bender is the most hated. Why is that the case? And by our definitions, yaoi is considered a demographic, so it purposely wasn't an option in last week's poll.

This week's suggestion from BooXx is about the genre you'd most avoid when reading a manga series. We tend to always use the question of "favorite" in the polls, so what about the one you hate the most?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Is it okay for guys to have long hair?
Choices:
Only in anime - votes: 1056 (10.3%)
Only in real life - votes: 43 (0.4%)
It's okay in both - votes: 5552 (54.4%)
It's never okay - votes: 514 (5%)
Don't care - votes: 3045 (29.8%)
There were 10210 total votes.
The poll ended: June 17th 2016

I guess certain people can pull it off...

This week's poll is from Kogeki1. Any opinion on guys with long hair?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Your favorite mangaka makes a series that focuses on a genre you really dislike...
Choices:
Skip it entirely - votes: 1931 (27%)
Try reading it right away - votes: 3191 (44.7%)
Only read it if other people say it's good - votes: 2021 (28.3%)
There were 7143 total votes.
The poll ended: June 11th 2016

I guess a good mangaka trumps all

This week's poll comes from our member TAK3Z0. Would you read a series from your favorite author but is heavily focused on a genre that you really dislike (i.e., harem)? Probably doesn't occur too often in actuality, but comment below if this actually happened to you before!

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: You're stuck in a fantasy RPG world with no resurrection. Now choose your class
Choices:
Barbarian - votes: 105 (1%)
Warrior - votes: 350 (3.3%)
Paladin - votes: 609 (5.7%)
Knight - votes: 284 (2.6%)
Monk - votes: 195 (1.8%)
Elemental Mage - votes: 1122 (10.5%)
Necromancer - votes: 858 (8%)
Druid - votes: 280 (2.6%)
Cleric/Priest - votes: 486 (4.5%)
Thief - votes: 353 (3.3%)
Assassin - votes: 1439 (13.4%)
Ranger - votes: 541 (5%)
Bard - votes: 158 (1.5%)
Illusionist - votes: 338 (3.2%)
Warlock - votes: 324 (3%)
Wizard - votes: 975 (9.1%)
Witch - votes: 614 (5.7%)
Artificer - votes: 212 (2%)
Alchemist - votes: 572 (5.3%)
Summoner - votes: 904 (8.4%)
There were 10719 total votes.
The poll ended: June 4th 2016

Assassin and then mage? Silent but deadly...

All,

I've added a new option in the user profile to filter series of selected type(s) from the releases, series, and stats pages. It's a long time coming.

This week's fun poll was suggested by Lost Rabbit. The list of classes isn't exhaustive, but it should cover most of the bases except for the specialized stuff like dragon knight or death knight...

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Has your taste in manga changed since you first started reading it?
Choices:
It totally turned a 180 - votes: 467 (5.9%)
Got more broad, so I like a wider variety of series - votes: 4453 (56.7%)
Got narrower, so my preferred series are very specific - votes: 1837 (23.4%)
Stayed pretty much the same - votes: 1103 (14%)
There were 7860 total votes.
The poll ended: May 28th 2016

Oh wow, most people opened up their horizons