Happy New Year!
(It's only been 2010 for about 3 hrs according to the time kept on the site, but there's already 30 releases...It's like Christmas all over again~)
Another poll that was suggested by Di27...
So how would you like your manga done in terms of colors vs. black and white? Just to tell you, the first and last options are the rare ones that occur in real life. As with most things, the middle options that are most present.
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=15717
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: Preferred manga/comic reading direction
Choices:
Right to left - votes: 8882 (82.3%)
Left to right - votes: 1914 (17.7%)
There were 10796 total votes.
The poll ended: December 26th 2009
It's finally Christmas over here in California~ Yay for all of you that celebrate!
A few weeks ago, we said that Shugo Chara! would be ending (with chapter 48), but it's not over yet! It'll be continued in Shugo Chara Encore! in February. As to why, we haven't got a clue yet...
Christmas gift to all of you that love that series
Source: http://prettyanon.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/the-future-of-shugo-chara/#more-909
This poll was suggested by our member Di27. The whole point of this poll is to choose the option you'd prefer in the situation that YOU can choose that the original source reads left to right / right to left. As in would you prefer everything to be always done left to right, just like American comics? Or the reverse where everything is like manga?
The issue is if you could draw and create your own stories, would it read left to right or right to left?
(And I'm gonna bet over 90% of the people who vote in this poll will never understand the actual reason for this...and will instead vote for "right to left" because it's "pure")
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=15613
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: Do you get annoyed when manga is called "comic"?
Choices:
Yes, they're different! - votes: 4033 (39.7%)
Bothers me, but I ignore it - votes: 2115 (20.8%)
But they ARE comics! - votes: 1827 (18%)
Not bothered at all - votes: 1621 (16%)
Have heard it so often that I'm immune - votes: 561 (5.5%)
There were 10157 total votes.
The poll ended: December 19th 2009
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KuroKishakai, who scanlated some xxxHolic has closed its doors citing business in real life calling
To sum up what's written below (which I personally cannot confirm since I don't read Japanese...), apparently there will be one more volume of Nodame Cantabile! (Now wouldn't that be nice?) Unfortunately, I can't confirm that it's true for myself (and none of the translators I know are on hand right now). Perhaps some knowing person can enlighten to me that it's true or not?
Ev3 writes: Hello minna-san ^^ piece of good news for the fans, Nodame first new chapter was released 10th December!
Even though volume 23 is the final, there will be one more tankobon volume.
http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/magazine/index.php/02292
here the link of Kiss magazine web page with Nodame on the cover! With a very cute dress! ^^
From the cover the new arc is called "Nodame cantabile encore, opera hen" 😀
Yeah! hopefully we will see the big end everyone was waiting for in chap 136 !
Graphic novels...
Last of our mini-series of what we call anime and manga.
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=15517
If you wish to suggest poll ideas, go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Question: Do you get annoyed when manga is called "anime"?
Choices:
Yes, they're different! - votes: 6812 (51.9%)
Bothers me, but I ignore it - votes: 3048 (23.2%)
Not bothered at all - votes: 2006 (15.3%)
Have heard it so often that I'm immune - votes: 863 (6.6%)
But manga IS anime! - votes: 386 (2.9%)
There were 13115 total votes.
The poll ended: December 12th 2009
Glad that we agree that they're different
As a sort of follow-up, our member Xuan suggested this poll. This one is probably gonna be a lot less common than anime/cartoons, but I've personally heard it more than once. I mean, come on, how do you get confused between something that's a video and something that's on paper?
An easy poll for next week would be to do the manga/comics pairing
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=15381
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: Do you get annoyed when anime is called "cartoon"?
Choices:
Yes, they're different! - votes: 6383 (41%)
Bothers me, but I ignore it - votes: 4000 (25.7%)
But they ARE cartoons! - votes: 1935 (12.4%)
Not bothered at all - votes: 1915 (12.3%)
Have heard it so often that I'm immune - votes: 1337 (8.6%)
There were 15570 total votes.
The poll ended: December 5th 2009
To the people who chose "But they ARE cartoons!", you better be joking...
PS: Good luck to all of you college students with finals. I got 2 on Monday, 1 on Wednesday, and 1 on Friday...
The very elusive group Stage Storm is closing its doors today. However, not all is lost! A new group called Barcarolle is rising up from the ashes, and the good news is that they won't be as secretive! Barcarolle is planning to continue all of Stage Storm's former projects except for Glass Mask. But you're still in luck! Shi-Ki is planning to continue Glass Mask, so you guys (girls) will still get your shoujo fix.
