This new poll has been suggested by our member MewMan. Just choose the choice that best represents your experience with visual novels. If you didn't know, there are visual novels that are not 18+ in nature. For instance, the ones I tried would be the Love Hina one for the GBA and some of Ever 17. I also remember seeing some non-H stuff back in '06 of AnimeExpo.
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=20513
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Opinion on manga censoring?
Choices:
Unnecessary and annoying - votes: 6743 (39.3%)
All for it! Think about the kids! - votes: 621 (3.6%)
If it was meant to be for adults, why censor? - votes: 8320 (48.5%)
I don't care - votes: 1463 (8.5%)
There were 17147 total votes.
The poll ended: August 21st 2010
It's pretty obvious that the majority of people don't like censoring, yet it still happens because of laws... Blame all the people lobbying for it.
Backlash67 writes: *Aurora Publishing is officially out of business; however, former staff members of the company created a new company, Manga Factory. Manga Factory is still selling old Aurora Publishing titles; however, Manga Factory has no affiliation with Ohzora Publishing the Japanese subsidiary of Aurora Publishing. Manga Factory will be releasing their own manga series, as well as, digital and print production services for mobile devices.
Manga Factory currently has one series out, "Teen Apocalypse: GUILSTEIN", Volume 1 [Kindle Edition]
For more information:
Link to MF's newsletter: http://mangafactory.net/assets/nl/20100624/index.html
Other links:
http://allaboutcomics.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/manga-factory-formed/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-27/aurora-former-staffers-launch-manga-factory*
This poll on a more "adult" topic is from our member FlyingMoose. Just give your best fitting answer to your opinion on censoring manga. Sure, there could've been other options, but let's just stick with these.
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=20378
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Favorite music genre?
Choices:
Pop - votes: 2340 (15.7%)
Hip Hop - votes: 586 (3.9%)
Rap - votes: 262 (1.8%)
R&B - votes: 636 (4.3%)
Blues - votes: 156 (1%)
Jazz - votes: 374 (2.5%)
Dance - votes: 412 (2.8%)
Folk - votes: 177 (1.2%)
Indie - votes: 765 (5.1%)
Heavy Metal - votes: 2218 (14.9%)
Alt-Rock - votes: 3328 (22.3%)
Classical - votes: 1067 (7.2%)
Other - votes: 2579 (17.3%)
There were 14900 total votes.
The poll ended: August 14th 2010
Oh hey, rock it out. Anyone ever been to Hard Rock Cafe?
ichigo_daisuki writes: K-ON! by Kakifly is slated to end in early September according to AnimeNewsNetwork
Time for a new poll suggested by TheRandomChocolate. Just a small selection of music to choose from.
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=20238
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Is there a monster under your bed?
Choices:
Yes, I'm scared of it - votes: 1125 (6.3%)
Not anymore, I killed it - votes: 3764 (20.9%)
Yes, it's my pet - votes: 3185 (17.7%)
Yes, I'm just letting it live for fun - votes: 2694 (15%)
Don't know. I never checked - votes: 2377 (13.2%)
No monster there - votes: 3140 (17.5%)
Monsters don't exist! - votes: 1687 (9.4%)
There were 17972 total votes.
The poll ended: August 7th 2010
Edit: Forgot to make an ending comment, so here it is. Why are people so violent? You guys would kill anything that gets in your way. What happened to diplomacy? And no, violent diplomacy doesn't count.
We finally have a new site feature thanks to the efforts of monkeyvoodoo! Just as you can filter genres, you can now filter groups. So if you don't want to see any of those releases from the hentai groups, just filter them out, and they won't appear on the main releases page. The reason for this is because not every release has an associated series entry that has the correct genre.
To actually filter a group, go to that group's page and check the box labeled "Hide this group's releases on the Releases page." Currently, the feature is in beta (after the many bugs in the last 2 days)... We will soon implement an easier way to do all this via the User CP, but for now, just deal with it.
Let's do a fun/weird poll again~ In particular, this bed monster related one was suggested by our member PeachMangoTea. Use your imagination
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=20108
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you believe that accessing manga without the use of internet in your country or region is hard or impossible?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 7286 (43.5%)
It would take more money than I can afford - votes: 7411 (44.2%)
No - votes: 2058 (12.3%)
There were 16755 total votes.
The poll ended: July 31st 2010
To be truly fair, we'd have to split it by regions, but that makes a long poll. And we don't really do surveys here...yet...
PS: I just beat StarCraft 2's campaign last night. Now for achievements and multiplayer!
We missed it by about a week, but yup, MU is now 6.
Happy Birthday!
The leader of Village Idiot, no_comxxx, recently died in a biking accident. RIP.
More specifics can be found on their site's news post.
Edit: Apparently Village Idiot is not sure about his death. They are attempting to make a more definite confirmation at this time.
It's a fairly generic poll suggested by FlyingMoose, but with our (the scanlation world's) current situation, this seems necessary.
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=19939
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Are you currently in a relationship?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 2298 (14.2%)
No - votes: 12357 (76.2%)
It's complicated - votes: 1565 (9.6%)
There were 16220 total votes.
The poll ended: July 24th 2010
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