This week's poll is from our member Lorska. What's your opinion of the current quality of manga (so stuff that's currently being released in Japan right now) compared to the quality of manga from previous years?
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=32542
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: I prefer series with main characters that are
Choices:
Younger than I am - votes: 814 (4.9%)
Approximately the same age as me - votes: 4512 (27%)
Older than me - votes: 1495 (8.9%)
No preference - votes: 7439 (44.4%)
I don't even notice their ages... - votes: 2482 (14.8%)
There were 16742 total votes.
The poll ended: March 10th 2012
Same age... Getting older every second. (Sorry, I'm currently pulling an all-nighter, and I can't think of anything better to say)
This poll, suggested by our member CLouDFaeRie, is about the ages of the main characters that you guys read about. You have any preference in comparison with your own age?
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=32431
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you think you will abandon reading manga in the future?
Choices:
No! I will preserve this passion! - votes: 10706 (71.9%)
Yes, it's sad, but I think it won't last long - votes: 1546 (10.4%)
Of course, better sooner than later, because it takes so much time - votes: 418 (2.8%)
I don't really care. I only read to kill time... - votes: 2213 (14.9%)
There were 14883 total votes.
The poll ended: March 3rd 2012
I'm actually surprised with the results. The percentage of people possibly quitting manga is higher than I initially expected.
This poll was suggested by our member Lorska. You can all probably guess which choice will win by a landslide...
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=32282
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Would you marry a character from manga / anime?
Choices:
Totally! - votes: 6940 (42.4%)
Only if he/she is hot - votes: 1813 (11.1%)
No, I don't date fictional characters - votes: 4706 (28.7%)
Too busy for love - votes: 726 (4.4%)
Marrying ties you down. Would have 'fun' with instead - votes: 2191 (13.4%)
There were 16376 total votes.
The poll ended: February 25th 2012
Poll wasn't worded that well and was slightly vague, but you guys got the gist of it. Just remember, these are for fun!
This poll was suggested by our member blueshadows. Would you marry a character from anime or manga (or manhwa, manhua, etc)? There's already been cases of this...
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=32105
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Scanlation watermarks
Choices:
I never want to see any watermarks at all - votes: 4602 (31.1%)
Prefer them outside of the boxes - votes: 3572 (24.2%)
Prefer them in the corner somewhere - votes: 3334 (22.6%)
Prefer them in the middle of the page - votes: 42 (0.3%)
Prefer them all over the place - votes: 222 (1.5%)
Watermarks don't matter to me - votes: 3005 (20.3%)
There were 14777 total votes.
The poll ended: February 18th 2012
So 264 votes treated this poll like a joke. Figures... (Unless they really want watermarks in the middle of the page or all over the place)
itamaesan writes: *http://mudascantradreleases.blogspot.com/2012/02/sad-announcement.html
Due to ongoing DMCA notices regarding all series licensed in Jump/by Viz, Muda Scantrad has decided
to drop Rosario to Vampire Season II. This is partly inspired by what has happened at MangaStream and Red Hawk Scanlations.*
Anonymous writes: *Dear Readers,
Some of you may have anticipated this development after the recent events at MangaStream, but we are sad to report that Red Hawk Scanlations has received a DMCA notice of copyright infringement from Shueisha with regard to the Bakuman and Beelzebub series. We have no desire to pick legal battles, so we have removed the series in question from our servers and will no longer be providing access to them via our site effective immediately.
However, aggregate sites will undoubtedly continue to distribute material as they please, independent of our actions here. The act of editing manga itself is not illegal, and we have no control over what is distributed on other servers. Meanwhile the Red Hawk site will continue to serve as a hub for updates and discussion as we continue to pursue our passions without engaging in the illegal distribution of these series.
In short, these series are [color=red]not dropped[/color], but they will not be found on our servers.
Sincerely,
Red Hawk Scanlations*
Taken from: http://www.redhawkscans.com/showthread.php?4677-DMCA-Notice-of-Copyright-Infringement-Beelzebub-amp-Bakuman
Super Gotenks writes: *February 11th, 2012
Dear MangaStream supporter,
It's with a heavy heart that I make the following announcement. MangaStream will no longer be
releasing the following series:
VIZ Media has demanded that we end our scanlation work for all of the above. This comes despite
our best efforts to pursuade fans into supporting official distributors by being the only group to
actively prevent an archive from forming on their website through the removal of chapters that are
older than a couple weeks. They've succeeded in little more than invoking inconvenience to the
community as their digital magazine missed the mark; it runs several issues behind and only
features 3 of the above series. So long as their product continues to be slow, awkward and inferior to
something a ragtag group of nobodies can churn out in a few hours - fans will continue to look to
scanlation groups and aggregators for their weekly fix.
The aggressive and escalating nature of their threats have forced our hand into removing the content.
MangaStream will no longer be posting full scanlations for any of the aforementioned series, we will
instead focus our efforts onto the series we do that are not licensed by VIZ Media (you can assume
everything currently on our directory will be continued).
This week's poll is from our member aznluck. If you haven't noticed, some scanlation groups put watermarks over their stuff so that no one can copy it and claim it as their own. What's your opinion on such a practice?
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=31945
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Previous Poll Result:
Question: If a series was good all the way to the ending which sucked, would you still read another series by the same author?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 12528 (89.7%)
No - votes: 1440 (10.3%)
There were 13968 total votes.
The poll ended: February 11th 2012
Not hard to predict that one, but I'm surprised at the high number of "no"
This week's poll, which was suggested by our member ayumisingo, is a little long-winded... If you have been reading a series, and you liked it, but then right at the ending, it just sucked so bad, would you still read another series by the same author? Very weird question... But my personal prediction is that most people would still read their stuff since they liked it up until the end. (No forum thread this time)
You can submit poll ideas here (and try to keep them manga/anime-related):
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Favorite / Best kind of manga romance
Choices:
Childhood friend - votes: 2731 (16.7%)
Long time (secret?) crush - votes: 1777 (10.9%)
Half (whole?) sibling - votes: 1493 (9.1%)
Someone new - votes: 3061 (18.7%)
Best friend - votes: 1354 (8.3%)
Idol (seemingly unattainable) - votes: 1324 (8.1%)
Rival - votes: 3821 (23.4%)
Don't like romance at all - votes: 766 (4.7%)
There were 16327 total votes.
The poll ended: February 4th 2012
The rival, eh? I guess a lot of people like the catharsis of turning an enemy into a lover
babel writes: *So, after nine years, Mahou Sensei Negima! will be ending (but not until the March 15th issue of Weekly Shonen). AKAMATSU Ken will be taking his time to write the three remaining installments. It is uncertain at the moment whether or not these will be extended chapters (as he did with the ending of Love Hina). It is also unknown what, if anything, will follow Negima. Rumors on the anime boards have suggested variously that a 'Negima 2' will be written (with a slightly more adult cast), or that fatherhood has taken it's toll and nothing will be forthcoming for the foreseeable future, though neither of these possibilities has been accompanied by any hard evidence so far...
Source: Anime News Network
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I for one am very excited. Did you know that Negima was the very first series that I helped scanlate?
