This week's simple poll is from Vesey. You ever pay for manga? Doesn't matter the amount (although feel free to comment about that).

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Question: What would you consider to be your native language?
Choices:
English - votes: 5786 (38.6%)
Spanish - votes: 1107 (7.4%)
Chinese - votes: 390 (2.6%)
French - votes: 1270 (8.5%)
Japanese - votes: 319 (2.1%)
Korean - votes: 156 (1%)
Portuguese - votes: 655 (4.4%)
German - votes: 802 (5.4%)
Dutch - votes: 227 (1.5%)
Finnic (Finnish, Estonian, etc.) - votes: 287 (1.9%)
North Germanic (Norwegian, Swedish, etc.) - votes: 462 (3.1%)
Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian, etc.) - votes: 105 (0.7%)
Semitic (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) - votes: 258 (1.7%)
Indo-Iranian (Bengali, Hindustani, Persian, etc.) - votes: 247 (1.6%)
Slavic (Russian, Slovak, Polish, etc.) - votes: 1160 (7.7%)
Malayo-Polynesian (Javanese, Tagalog, etc.) - votes: 618 (4.1%)
Other - votes: 1123 (7.5%)
There were 14972 total votes.
The poll ended: August 29th 2014

We ARE an English site... Interestingly enough, the next one is French...

This week's poll was suggested by 狂気. You may not like how some languages are included in families while others are individual, but deal with it. Well, we ARE an English site...

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: How big of a manga fan are you (in terms of # of series read / reading)?
Choices:
Beginner (<10) - votes: 213 (1.9%)
Casual reader (10-100) - votes: 1809 (15.8%)
Rookie (100-250) - votes: 1831 (16%)
Intermediate amateur (250-500) - votes: 2142 (18.7%)
Amateur (500-750) - votes: 1345 (11.7%)
Advanced amateur (750-1k) - votes: 1340 (11.7%)
Intermediate professional (1-1.5k) - votes: 996 (8.7%)
Professional (1.5k-2k) - votes: 560 (4.9%)
Advanced professional (2k-3k) - votes: 298 (2.6%)
Sensei (3k+) - votes: 930 (8.1%)
There were 11464 total votes.
The poll ended: August 22nd 2014

Pretty good bell curve except for the sensei option. 3k is a lot...

This week's poll was suggested by deadphoenix. Estimate how big of a manga fan you are based on the number of series you've read or are currently reading. Up to you if you wanna include oneshots or doujinshi with that number.

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: How often do you watch AMVs?
Choices:
I'd say pretty often - votes: 1012 (9.1%)
Just occasionally - votes: 1925 (17.4%)
Barely ever - votes: 2403 (21.7%)
Used to watch some, but not anymore - votes: 2675 (24.1%)
Never watched any - votes: 1088 (9.8%)
What are AMVs? - votes: 1975 (17.8%)
There were 11078 total votes.
The poll ended: August 16th 2014

Go watch AMV Hell. And for those of you who hadn't a clue what an AMV was, go Google it.

We haven't had an AMV poll in about 4 years, so as kuroihikari wants, why not? 4 years ago, I used to watch a lot more AMVs, but I don't think I've watched one in several years (partly because I don't watch anime anymore).

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Question: When you see or talk to someone on the internet, which gender do you assume him/her to be until you get further clues or confirmations?
Choices:
I'm male and I default male - votes: 3760 (31.4%)
I'm male and I default female - votes: 157 (1.3%)
I'm male and I don't default to any gender - votes: 2365 (19.7%)
I'm female and I default male - votes: 1252 (10.4%)
I'm female and I default female - votes: 1187 (9.9%)
I'm female and I don't default to any gender - votes: 3262 (27.2%)
There were 11983 total votes.
The poll ended: August 9th 2014

I didn't realize a gender question would be so polarized...sigh... So apparently more males voted in this poll, but at least 1 previous poll had more females. Most be that missing "other". Although it does appear that males tend to assume males, but females are more likely to not assume anything.

This week's poll isn't manga related, but it's an interested one suggested by crimsonsnow00017. When you "see" someone on the internet, which may be say reading a post on a forum or messaging them online, etc, what gender do you usually assume the other person to be by default, without having any other clues or confirmations? Personally, I just assume everyone is a guy unless I know otherwise.

Edit: It's too late, so I am not editing this poll to add more choices

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Your favorite series has been going for a while now. You...
Choices:
Want it to continue forever - votes: 2963 (29.3%)
Want it to end before it turns worse - votes: 6112 (60.5%)
Want the author to stop to start a completely new series - votes: 359 (3.6%)
Want a spin-off story of it - votes: 665 (6.6%)
There were 10099 total votes.
The poll ended: August 2nd 2014

So the recommendation here is to not get greedy and just end something on a good note.

This week's poll came from icassop. So let's say your favorite series has been doing pretty well and has been lasting a while. What do you want for its future? Not exactly the best way to phrase a poll, but hey...

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: For background art in manga, you prefer...
Choices:
Lots of detail - votes: 2376 (24.2%)
An average amount of detail - votes: 5012 (51%)
Very little detail - votes: 167 (1.7%)
Sparkles and patterns that fit the mood is just fine - votes: 542 (5.5%)
I don't really pay attention to the backgrounds - votes: 833 (8.5%)
I don't care - votes: 894 (9.1%)
There were 9824 total votes.
The poll ended: July 26th 2014

Average is average...But I guess more is better?

MangaUpdates is now 10 years old! Man, I'm getting old... (And for once, we're not reporting the birthday several days after the fact.)

Happy birthday, MangaUpdates!

This week's poll was suggested by Calamansi. For the background art in the series you read, how much detail do you like in them? I remember that the backgrounds in Mahou Sensei Negima! were quite detailed. Then there's shoujo where a lot of panels will just have sparkles and stuff to indicate the mood of the character.

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: If you own some physical copies of manga, what do after you've read them?
Choices:
Keep reading religiously - votes: 780 (7.2%)
Leave it on the shelf and probably read it later - votes: 6408 (58.9%)
Leave it on the shelf and never touch again - votes: 1332 (12.3%)
Throw it away - votes: 23 (0.2%)
Lend it out - votes: 144 (1.3%)
Give it away to someone - votes: 47 (0.4%)
Donate it to a library, manga cafe, etc - votes: 77 (0.7%)
Sell it - votes: 73 (0.7%)
I don't own any physical manga - votes: 1989 (18.3%)
There were 10873 total votes.
The poll ended: July 19th 2014

Now how many people say they'll read it later and actually never do? I'm the kind of person that rarely goes back to read something again. Same with rarely re-watching movies or TV shows.

This week's poll comes from the mind of our member psycho-shocker. If you do own some physical copies of manga, what do you tend to do with them after reading them?

Edit: I just realized that I forgot an option for "I collect and never read them in the first place". Oh well, probably a rare case.

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Question: If you had to have animal ears (kemonomimi), which would you choose?
Choices:
Cat (including tiger, lion, etc) - votes: 3758 (29.1%)
Wolf - votes: 3113 (24.1%)
Fox - votes: 2422 (18.8%)
Dog - votes: 344 (2.7%)
Rabbit - votes: 660 (5.1%)
Bear - votes: 290 (2.2%)
Mouse - votes: 94 (0.7%)
Sheep - votes: 135 (1%)
Cow - votes: 68 (0.5%)
Dragon - votes: 1270 (9.8%)
No visible ear (like birds) - votes: 386 (3%)
Other - votes: 360 (2.8%)
There were 12900 total votes.
The poll ended: July 12th 2014

So do we have more cat lovers than dog lovers here?

This week's poll suggested by our member tart is rather odd. If you had to have some kind of animal ear, what would you prefer?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: What's the first place you check to see if there's a new release for a series you're already reading?
Choices:
MangaUpdates - votes: 7039 (66.1%)
IRC - votes: 14 (0.1%)
The scanlator's site or forum - votes: 507 (4.8%)
Online manga reader (aggregator site) - votes: 2263 (21.3%)
Phone application - votes: 263 (2.5%)
RSS feed - votes: 152 (1.4%)
Email - votes: 121 (1.1%)
Some other method - votes: 288 (2.7%)
There were 10647 total votes.
The poll ended: July 5th 2014

To be expected since we're MU... But online readers are on the rise!