I bet most people are gonna like Pokemon more...Hmm, perhaps the next poll should be about the games vs. anime vs. manga. And then which season was better...
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=14873
If you wish to suggest poll ideas, go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: You cosplay/dress-up for Halloween this year?
Choices:
Nope, I don't celebrate Halloween - votes: 6906 (62%)
Yeah, but not anything anime-related - votes: 1717 (15.4%)
Nope, but I still got (or will get) tons of candy! - votes: 1636 (14.7%)
Yup, as someone related to Japanese anime / manga / games - votes: 877 (7.9%)
There were 11136 total votes.
The poll ended: November 7th 2009
Of course most that celebrate Halloween would dress up for it...
Happy Halloween!
And for the first time, we're reusing a poll! You can discuss your Halloween day on our forums here (but it's not specifically catered to the poll):
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=14756
If you wish to suggest poll ideas, go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Thoughts on editor / translator notes or comments in scanlations?
Choices:
I like the funny ones - votes: 6492 (55.8%)
Only good if they clarify the translation or scene - votes: 4015 (34.5%)
I just ignore them - votes: 829 (7.1%)
I don't like them - votes: 288 (2.5%)
There were 11624 total votes.
The poll ended: October 31st 2009
Sorry that I forgot an option for "I like them all"
To sum it up, Fateful Encounters and HMR Scans have combined into Loyal Kiss
TheSimplePrincess writes: *I quote from our admin/co-founder/boss:
"This is the last from Fateful Encounters (FE). Yes, everyone must be sad because we are officially closing down. This is not a joke! Is it April 1st? No, I don't think so. So our final release is Kimi ni Todoke ch21. I am so tired of scanlating and I have no time for my school work. So I am going to shut FE down...
But NO WORRIES!!!!! Here's the best part of this. We are going to join together, collide together, mush together or whatever with HMR Scans. I worked there as an admin too and the head admin agreed with this. And now we are called Loyal Kiss. Romantic, huh? I LOVE IT! I'm a sucker for cute things. XD Anyway go take our poll about our name. > 😀 Everyone will be mesmerism by it <3
We are being born on October 31st."
For more information please visit:
http://z10.invisionfree.com/Loyal_Kiss/index.php?
Thanks for your cooperation.
One of the staff,
TheSimplePrincess*
This new poll was submitted by our member Achiyugo. If you wanna discuss, feel free to talk about specific examples that you thought were good/bad. Hopefully scanlation groups will take this poll to heart...
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=14659
If you wish to suggest poll ideas, go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: How would you like the anime adaptation of a manga series?
Choices:
The exact same, just animated - votes: 6275 (49.6%)
Same general plot, but with some good, new content - votes: 5283 (41.8%)
No anime for me - votes: 711 (5.6%)
Different plot so that it's not repetitive - votes: 371 (2.9%)
There were 12640 total votes.
The poll ended: October 24th 2009
Exactly the same? Really? So you're willing to watch an animated version that follows exactly the same as what you read?
Before I discuss the new poll, do you guys remember the series of demographic polls? For each poll, the top 5 most suggested series (on the forum) were put on the public poll. Well, here's the file that contains how many suggestions each series got:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/demo_poll_results.xls
(Note: Because of the polls, we realize that the demographics of different series need some work, so it may be that in the future, certain series will be located in different demographics)
This new poll about anime adaptations and how you like them was suggested by our member Regnak.
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=14516
If you wish to suggest poll ideas, go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: ...
Choices:
Ninja - votes: 8814 (61.6%)
Pirate - votes: 5489 (38.4%)
There were 14303 total votes.
The poll ended: October 17th 2009
It is my pleasure to announce the grand opening of website Inside Scanlation!
As you all know, one of MangaUpdates' focuses is on scanlations. Inside Scanlation details the history of the scanlation process. There are articles about different sectors of the scene, from speed scanlations to Lurk to our own site here. There are also interviews with various sites, groups, and organizations, including an IRC interview with me and Manick, njt from MangaHelpers, and even something from TokyoPop. Even if you have only a cursory interest, I highly recommend you check out the site.
Two cool things I want to point out.
Inside Scanlation is the work of Gum, who compiled all this data into the baby you see now. It has been a work in progress for the last 3 years, and now it has seen the light of day. May we see more updates in the future!
Fun and silly poll for once! Suggested by ExzyruSxxx.
If you wish to suggest poll ideas, go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: If you knew the ending sucked for a series, would you still read it?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 7253 (55.8%)
No - votes: 5750 (44.2%)
There were 13003 total votes.
The poll ended: October 10th 2009
The new poll's slightly ambiguous, but oh well. Interpret it however you like. It was suggested by our member icassop.
If you're wondering, for instance, lots of people say that Ichigo 100% had a bad ending, but would you still read it regardless? (I personally liked it though, so screw you guys.)
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=14305
If you wish to suggest poll ideas, go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Been to Disneyland/Disney World or any of their other resorts before (anywhere in the world)?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 4924 (47.8%)
Nope, and I don't wanna - votes: 2875 (27.9%)
No, but I want to - votes: 2493 (24.2%)
There were 10292 total votes.
The poll ended: October 3rd 2009
That's a decent amount of people that have been to Disneyland or any of the other related places! (By the way, I loved the Halloween themed fireworks for Disneyland when I went last weekend)
If you can see this, you're officially on the migrated server. It's not faster or anything than the old one, but it had to be done.
If you posted something just after I exported the database, it might be missing. In that case, please post it again, and we're sorry for the inconvenience.
We're not 100% done yet... so some things might come and go and break over the next few days, but we'll keep at it till we've got it finished.
Thanks for your patience.
Staff
For those of you following the MangaHelpers events, they have released a FAQ explaining more details about the draft proposal. Head on over to give it a read, and learn more about the issue.
It appears that the leak caught them by surprise, and they weren't able to coherently deal with the issue in such a short short amount of time (with the release of the initial explanation post). I've read their FAQ and find their idea intriguing. Depending on how it is managed as well as the reaction of publishers, it could be a very unique opportunity for some in the community. I will reserve my judgment for a future date.
Also, the MU server was down for a few hours due to another bad power cable. As you can see, we are back up. This is not related to the downtime we will be having as we move our servers during the next few weeks, as discussed [sitelink=news.html?id=518]here[/sitelink].
