This week's vanity poll was suggested by suki_san. Next week, we'll probably do a poll on female hairstyles.

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: Favorite "Dere" type
Choices:
Tsundere - votes: 2164 (38%)
Kuudere - votes: 1139 (20%)
Dandere - votes: 523 (9.2%)
Yandere - votes: 1452 (25.5%)
Goudere - votes: 90 (1.6%)
Mayadere - votes: 133 (2.3%)
Coodere - votes: 199 (3.5%)
There were 5700 total votes.
The poll ended: December 24th 2016

I wasn't expecting the huge number of comments on last week's poll. Got quite heated actually...

This week's poll comes from our member Homura_Heart. It requires a bit of knowledge of terminology, some of which isn't that common (even in our niche of manga). If you really wanna answer this poll, I suggest you Google each term first. I won't bother trying to explain it all here. And honestly, I'm not expecting that many voters this week.

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: If you were to find yourself at odds with your surroundings / world, what would you do?
Choices:
Change yourself in order to fit in - votes: 727 (13.8%)
Change your surroundings / world - votes: 544 (10.3%)
Both of the above - votes: 1141 (21.6%)
Move somewhere else - votes: 608 (11.5%)
Destroy everything - votes: 452 (8.6%)
Change nothing - votes: 848 (16%)
I don't know - votes: 964 (18.2%)
There were 5284 total votes.
The poll ended: December 17th 2016

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."

• Gandhi

This week's poll was suggested by Estranger. It was inspired by the Rewrite series, which I know nothing about... The question itself is an interesting one though. I'm currently reading the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. In the setting of that series, the Lord Ruler remakes both the world (moving the planet closer to the sun) and himself after obtaining great power.

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 should currency be translated?
Choices:
Leave in original form - votes: 2094 (31.5%)
Leave in original form and add translation note for conversion to USD, etc - votes: 4200 (63.2%)
Change to the translator / publisher's local currency - votes: 129 (1.9%)
Change to a popular form of currency (USD, GBP, EUR, etc.) - votes: 220 (3.3%)
There were 6643 total votes.
The poll ended: December 10th 2016

One suggestion is that if you add a translation note, make the conversion an approximate and also add a date to it, since currency exchange rates fluctuate.

This week's poll about converting money (into gold!) was suggested by our member 8-3.

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: Female main character hair length preference
Choices:
Bald - votes: 275 (3.2%)
Ear - votes: 305 (3.5%)
Chin - votes: 347 (4%)
Neck - votes: 550 (6.3%)
Collarbone - votes: 328 (3.8%)
Shoulder - votes: 638 (7.4%)
Armpit - votes: 240 (2.8%)
Bra strap - votes: 653 (7.5%)
Mid-back - votes: 1197 (13.8%)
Waist - votes: 764 (8.8%)
Hip - votes: 318 (3.7%)
Tailbone - votes: 209 (2.4%)
Classic - votes: 115 (1.3%)
Mid-thigh - votes: 166 (1.9%)
Knee - votes: 83 (1%)
Calf - votes: 26 (0.3%)
Ankle - votes: 69 (0.8%)
Floor - votes: 59 (0.7%)
Longer than floor (what a drag) - votes: 191 (2.2%)
No preference - votes: 2138 (24.7%)
There were 8671 total votes.
The poll ended: December 3rd 2016

I'm actually surprised that so many people voted. I expected this to be an unpopular one.

This week's poll is rather unusual, as I would never have come up with it myself, so miskatsura did it for me. I didn't even realize that there's this many options for hair length. The order is from shortest to longest.

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: Pokemon
Choices:
Sun - votes: 679 (8.6%)
Moon - votes: 1078 (13.7%)
Either. Don't know the difference - votes: 672 (8.5%)
I wish I had a 3DS 🙁 - votes: 1444 (18.3%)
Haven't played Pokemon in years... - votes: 1866 (23.7%)
Don't care - votes: 2143 (27.2%)
There were 7882 total votes.
The poll ended: November 26th 2016

Of those who actually would play, they prefer Moon over Sun. I wonder why...

No one suggested this, but hey, the games just came out! The last versions I played was Gold and Fire Red, so I'm really behind in all this... (Still need to finish Fire Emblem: Fates too)

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: Trump won
Choices:
YEAH! Make America great again! - votes: 959 (10%)
#notmypresident - votes: 1733 (18.1%)
Protest! Secede! Revolt! - votes: 403 (4.2%)
Time to move to Canada... - votes: 627 (6.5%)
This sucks, even though I don't live in the US - votes: 3125 (32.6%)
This is great, and I don't even live in the US! - votes: 629 (6.6%)
Don't care - votes: 2098 (21.9%)
There were 9574 total votes.
The poll ended: November 19th 2016

This was probably our most heated poll yet

We don't usually do polls related to politics, but as yuuki16 suggested, I think it's time...

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: Do you read manga in the bathroom?
Choices:
I sit there for a while and just read - votes: 1864 (28.6%)
Maybe just a few minutes at a time - votes: 1902 (29.2%)
Ew. No way - votes: 2749 (42.2%)
There were 6515 total votes.
The poll ended: November 12th 2016

Keep it clean!

This week's random poll comes from drunkguy. When you're sitting on the toilet and taking a number 2, do you read manga?

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: You awaken in a dying, unfamiliar world. You discover that you were summoned to be the savior. So you...
Choices:
Panic and give up - votes: 239 (3.5%)
Wait it out try to survive - votes: 647 (9.4%)
Save the world alone (lone ranger) - votes: 808 (11.7%)
Gather a party to overcome the crisis - votes: 2066 (30%)
Complain a lot and/or ignore everything - votes: 332 (4.8%)
Try your best to return to your own world - votes: 680 (9.9%)
Have as much fun as possible - votes: 1267 (18.4%)
Destroy the world further - votes: 418 (6.1%)
Seek out a love life. Everyone loves a savior... - votes: 437 (6.3%)
There were 6894 total votes.
The poll ended: November 4th 2016

Live out that RPG life. Gotta get a healer, a wizard, a rogue, and a tank.

This weeks non-so-serious poll was suggested by seanna2k. The options aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, so just choose the one you like the most (whether it's the funniest or the one you'd most likely do).

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: When you do prefer groups to release their scanlations?
Choices:
Right when they finish the chapter - votes: 2845 (47.1%)
On a regular schedule (aka a release every 2 weeks) - votes: 1881 (31.1%)
In bulk releases either randomly or a schedule (aka the 1st of the month) - votes: 402 (6.7%)
Don't care - votes: 913 (15.1%)
There were 6041 total votes.
The poll ended: October 29th 2016

Turns out most people don't like those bulk releases

A member of ours, mattfabb, has been doing research on manga translations. You can see some of his past work here. He has created a new video and is looking for feedback. The video is here:

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/working-with-translation/1/steps/128935

Specifically, he is fielding these questions:

• Have I been truthful?
• Have I represented the community fairly?
• Should I do things differently if I ever get to do something similar in the future?

Feel free to give other feedback too. You can do so by commenting in this thread or by emailing him at mattfabb[at]hotmail.com