Merry Christmas to all of you from all of us!

lambchopsil edit:
Sorry for hijacking, but it's time for another fun poll! This Christmas one was suggested by our member Kriege.

As always, 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 much will the new Tokyo Youth Ordinance Bill affect the industry?
Choices:
Changes completely - votes: 4646 (58.1%)
Barely noticable - votes: 2695 (33.7%)
Not at all - votes: 658 (8.2%)
There were 7999 total votes.
The poll ended: December 25th 2010

I honestly don't want to use this as a poll, but since it is a current event...(And it was suggested by our member firestalker). No formal forum thread for this one because I fear flames.

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 long can you last without manga?
Choices:
Less than a day - votes: 2494 (16.3%)
A few days - votes: 4827 (31.5%)
A week or two - votes: 3260 (21.3%)
A month - votes: 1399 (9.1%)
A few months - votes: 1608 (10.5%)
A year - votes: 229 (1.5%)
Years - votes: 423 (2.8%)
Forever - votes: 1096 (7.1%)
There were 15336 total votes.
The poll ended: December 18th 2010

SpicyWolfHoro writes: *For those of you who are not keeping up with current events in japan, here is a newsflash!!

Read here to get a better Idea of what is going on:
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/12/15/tokyo-manga-ban-signed-into-law/

In summary, the tokyo government has just passed a law that directly targets Anime, Manga, and Games! They are censoring things to such an extreme degree that it is likely to put many anime and manga publishing/producing companies out of business.

Any anime, manga, or game that depicts: Violence, Sex, Crime, Homosexuality (Yup, girls there goes your Yaoi), anything that could be construed as "a bad influence on youth", anything of the above depicting minors, and more... (and there goes any Ecchi manga, any student/teacher, incest, age gap, and most shoujo series)

All of which is now a crime to Own, Create, or Sell.

Many mangas will probably be put to an end as they will no longer be legal.

Such examples as To Love-ru!, Wolf Guy, Deadman Wonderland, etc.

With this law, for a series to be legal, the antagonist would either have to be related to the Care Bears, or completely nonexistent. Without an antagonist, there is no plot. Without some kind of crime/evil there is not real antagonist. How do you create a series without a plot? Even 4-koma has a plot... sort of.

The mastermind behind this is Tokyo Governor Shintarō Ishihara, who blatantly shows no care for the illustrated entertainment industry. He claims that the law is to protect the youth of japan, yet he himself is the author of a series of schoolgirl gang rape novels.

The law is coming into effect April 2011, and will come out in full force in July 2011.

Kadokawa (Anime Producing Company) has declared that they will fight the new law.

Feel free to offer them your support: (Page in Japanese)

http://www.kadokawa-pictures.co.jp/companyinfo/contactus.shtml

I don't know what we can do, but support our publishers!!

Spread the news, and join in the fight! I am sending letters to every anime, manga and gaming company that will be affected and declaring my support. I urge all other fans to do the same. Defend our anime! Defend our manga! Defend our starving
artists!*

This poll is going off an old poll of "How long can you last without a computer?" I don't really like any of the current suggestions for a new poll, so I went off an old one... Let's try and suggest more manga/anime-related ones!

You can discuss this poll at our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=22934

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: Have you ever believed in Santa Claus?
Choices:
Yes, when i was small - votes: 7473 (53.6%)
I still believe it! He really exists! - votes: 1219 (8.7%)
No, I never believed the story - votes: 4378 (31.4%)
Who is Santa Claus? - votes: 881 (6.3%)
There were 13951 total votes.
The poll ended: December 11th 2010

Another holiday poll has come to you by way of our member comel. This time, is Santa coming to town?

You can discuss the poll on our forum over here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=22753

You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Does it snow where you live?
Choices:
Yes, all the time! - votes: 3117 (19.8%)
Yes, and I hate it... - votes: 2254 (14.3%)
Only occasionally - votes: 4342 (27.6%)
Does around once in the last 100 years count? - votes: 2412 (15.3%)
Never - votes: 3593 (22.9%)
There were 15718 total votes.
The poll ended: December 4th 2010

Snow is only fun if it's not a blizzard and you're not the one responsible for shoveling it away from the walkway

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• MU Staff

For the first time, this poll is a combination of suggestions from multiple people: comel, FormX, and ShadowSakura. Instead of snowing only around Christmas, I chose to make it more general.

You can discuss this poll in our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=22596

You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Last time you hugged your parent(s)?
Choices:
Today! - votes: 3069 (22.3%)
Within the last week - votes: 2813 (20.4%)
Within the last month - votes: 1716 (12.4%)
Within the last year - votes: 2357 (17.1%)
Within the last 5 years - votes: 1122 (8.1%)
Longer than any of the above - votes: 2715 (19.7%)
There were 13792 total votes.
The poll ended: November 27th 2010

The purpose was to get you thinking about your parents.

Happy Thankgiving to you all~

Due to all the online sales, I bought around $400 of stuff.

So I was thinking about Thanksgiving, which is upcoming in the USA, so why not have a poll about thanking and showing appreciation toward your parents? Maybe this poll will get you thinking about your parents and what they've done for you. (I hope they raised you well). Even if you're a grown man, your parents will still remember when you were a child, so there's no shame in hugging them.

You can discuss this poll on our forum here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=22450

You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Christmas Shopping
Choices:
Finished. I get that stuff done early - votes: 200 (1.7%)
I've started already - votes: 960 (8%)
Isn't it too early? Halfway through November... - votes: 4819 (40.2%)
I leave everything to the last minute - votes: 2170 (18.1%)
I don't buy Christmas presents - votes: 3846 (32.1%)
There were 11995 total votes.
The poll ended: November 20th 2010

Well, it was slightly early to have this poll, but Black Friday and Cyber Monday are right around the corner! Cheap prices for great gifts! Still though, I'm saddened by the number of people who don't give any gifts at all (well, perhaps you don't celebrate Christmas, but you could still give gifts to show some appreciation~)

From ANN:

Manga creator AKAMATSU Ken (Mahou Sensei Negima!, Love Hina) announced on Monday that he is launching a "J-Comi" website that will eventually post out-of-print manga for free with advertising support. He is working with DEGUCHI Ryusei (Abenobashi Magical Shopping Arcade) and other fellow manga creators, in part to deal with the current situation of manga being scanned and uploaded without authorization.

Under the proposed plan, the site will distribute out-of-print manga with the creators' permission and with advertising. The advertising revenues will then be split among the creators. The site will use PDF (Portable Document Format) files without DRM (digital rights management).

A beta version of the site will launch on November 26 with 14 volumes of Akamatsu's hit manga Love Hina, and the site will tally the number of downloads and clicks as a test of the business model. The site will formally launch on January 10, 2011. Akamatsu will post more information on the official J-Comi blog and on his own Twitter account.