This week's poll is from Zarallx. You know those gender bender series? Like 1/2 Prince or Gacha Gacha. If you've never read any of those, it's when the main character switches genders for some reason. So a guy turns into a girl or a girl turns into a guy. If it really happened in real life, which do you think would be more difficult for that person to deal with? Any of you ever watched "She's the Man"?
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: At what age did you start reading manga?
Choices:
10 years old and before (young'un) - votes: 3450 (18.2%)
10 to 14 years old (middle school years) - votes: 6591 (34.8%)
14 to 18 years old (high school years) - votes: 5482 (28.9%)
18 to 22 years old (college years) - votes: 2290 (12.1%)
22 to 30 years old (young adult) - votes: 818 (4.3%)
30 to 40 years old (prime times) - votes: 185 (1%)
40 years old and above (getting old) - votes: 125 (0.7%)
There were 18941 total votes.
The poll ended: March 22nd 2013
Wow, so many people started pretty young. Now if this was a full-blown survey, we'd also ask how old you are now, but alas, we're not doing that
This week's poll by rallwka is about the age you started reading manga. As long as you remember, this one should be easy!
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: If a publisher were to adopt a model where you pay a monthly subscription (say ~$10 USD) in order to read their entire library of translated manga via a digital device, would you subscribe?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 6400 (57.6%)
No - votes: 4713 (42.4%)
There were 11113 total votes.
The poll ended: March 15th 2013
There's so many factors associated with this (like how large the library of series would be), so don't expect this poll to be a market analysis of any sort. In other news, JManga is closing its retail and viewing services
We thank our member kayue for suggesting this week's poll. What if a manga publisher had some kind of model (similar to Crunchroll or Netflix) where you could pay a (fairly cheap) monthly subscription for access to their digital library of translated manga, would you actually subscribe to such a thing? A bit long-winded, and it's just a yes/no choice, but it's a good marketing research question! (Not that any publisher asked us to have this poll)
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Which demographic do you hate the most?
Choices:
Shoujo - votes: 1306 (8.3%)
Shounen - votes: 621 (4%)
Seinen - votes: 521 (3.3%)
Josei - votes: 527 (3.4%)
Shoujo ai - votes: 461 (2.9%)
Shounen ai - votes: 844 (5.4%)
Yaoi - votes: 6239 (39.8%)
Yuri - votes: 1988 (12.7%)
Hentai - votes: 3171 (20.2%)
There were 15678 total votes.
The poll ended: March 9th 2013
Yaoi also won our "Favorite demographic" poll back in October 2008. I guess you either love it or you hate it?
This week's poll is from xxxTokineko. We don't usually do polls about which you dislike the most, but there's a first time for everything!
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Which color Power Ranger (Super Sentai) are you?
Choices:
Blue - votes: 1375 (15.8%)
Red - votes: 1135 (13.1%)
Yellow - votes: 638 (7.3%)
Pink - votes: 1009 (11.6%)
Green - votes: 1053 (12.1%)
Black - votes: 2260 (26%)
White - votes: 1219 (14%)
There were 8689 total votes.
The poll ended: March 2nd 2013
Wow, black won pretty handily. But Blue is my favorite color...
This week's fun poll by nowyat is about Power Rangers! Choose the one you'd actually be if you were in the show! If you've never seen any season/series of it, then just choose your favorite color from that list, I guess... And if you don't like the choices, then too bad, just don't vote
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: For anime series, you tend to like which more?
Choices:
Opening - votes: 8632 (72.7%)
Ending - votes: 2322 (19.6%)
Don't watch anime - votes: 922 (7.8%)
There were 11876 total votes.
The poll ended: February 23rd 2013
More upbeat, eh?
This week's poll is going out a tiny bit earlier than usual since I won't be available much this weekend to put one up at the regular time. But anyways, the idea comes from the brain of our member StephKuran. This one should be a no-brainer in terms of how you'd answer, but maybe you can include some of your favorite songs? One of mine would be "You Raise Me Up" by Lena Park, which was the OP for Romeo x Juliet. As for an ED, there's "Anna ni Issho Datta no ni" by See-Saw for Gundam SEED.
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Favorite mythical creature in fantasy series
Choices:
Angel - votes: 819 (5.7%)
Beast - votes: 253 (1.8%)
Demon / Oni / Youkai - votes: 3091 (21.7%)
Elf - votes: 1078 (7.6%)
Fairy - votes: 286 (2%)
Incubus / Succubus - votes: 877 (6.2%)
Mermaid - votes: 294 (2.1%)
Pegasus - votes: 57 (0.4%)
Unicorn - votes: 106 (0.7%)
Phoenix - votes: 568 (4%)
Tengu - votes: 252 (1.8%)
Vampire - votes: 1567 (11%)
Werewolf - votes: 523 (3.7%)
Dragon - votes: 2205 (15.5%)
Kappa (turtle) - votes: 102 (0.7%)
Kitsune (Fox) - votes: 1613 (11.3%)
Garuda (Bird) - votes: 67 (0.5%)
Don't like/read fantasy - votes: 496 (3.5%)
There were 14254 total votes.
The poll ended: February 15th 2013
Demons and creatures of darkness, how you instill fear in the hearts of men and cause us to like reading about you
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This week's poll of mythical creatures is the brainchild of our member rallwka. Please note that the list of creatures does not include everything in mythology but rather a selection of what is most common in manga series (although I don't think phoenix belongs on that list, but oh well). If your favorite isn't on the list, just choose something that you like that IS on the list.
You can submit poll ideas here (and try to keep them manga/anime-related)
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you read fanfiction for the series you like?
Choices:
All the time - votes: 1495 (11.8%)
Sometimes - votes: 2730 (21.6%)
Seldom - votes: 3190 (25.2%)
Never - votes: 5230 (41.4%)
There were 12645 total votes.
The poll ended: February 9th 2013
I fall in the "Never" camp also. I'll stick with the real, official, and canon stuff.
This week's poll was sort of from a suggestion by Havenc1, but not quite what he/she had in mind. But anyways, fanfiction is a fan-written story for a particular series. Perhaps it's a new or changed plot. Or there's more (better?) romantic pairings than the original series has. I decided not to have an option about writing fanfiction, but I'm sure some of you do that! As for my personal vote: I never read fanfiction. I'll stick with the original stuff.
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Optimal story length
Choices:
Lots of volumes with short chapters - votes: 1203 (11.5%)
Lots of volumes with long chapters - votes: 5142 (49%)
Just a few volumes with short chapters - votes: 371 (3.5%)
Just a few volumes with long chapters - votes: 3777 (36%)
There were 10493 total votes.
The poll ended: February 2nd 2013
Due to the low numbers, it seems like less and less people are voting on these polls. Probably my fault...
This week's poll is from our member jacob66. This poll is actually a mix of 2 polls back in 2008, and based on those results, I'm gonna predict that "Lots of volumes with long chapters" will win. But who knows? I could be wrong
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Question: What font type do you prefer for reading scanlations?
Choices:
Wild Words - votes: 744 (6.9%)
Manga Temple - votes: 164 (1.5%)
Anime Ace - votes: 440 (4.1%)
CC Meanwhile - votes: 19 (0.2%)
DigitalStrip - votes: 45 (0.4%)
CC Comiccrazy - votes: 26 (0.2%)
Blambot Casual - votes: 28 (0.3%)
Arial - votes: 226 (2.1%)
Arial Black - votes: 81 (0.8%)
Calibri - votes: 138 (1.3%)
Comic Sans MS - votes: 723 (6.7%)
Verdana - votes: 68 (0.6%)
Times New Roman - votes: 189 (1.8%)
Webdings - votes: 75 (0.7%)
Tahoma - votes: 64 (0.6%)
Helvetica - votes: 69 (0.6%)
I prefer a font not listed above - votes: 160 (1.5%)
Fonts matter, but I don't know their names - votes: 5693 (53%)
Fonts don't matter at all to me - votes: 1795 (16.7%)
There were 10747 total votes.
The poll ended: January 26th 2013
Of the results for the actual fonts, we have Wild Words, Comic Sans MS, and Anime Ace (in that order). I'm not sure if tons of people just voted for Comic Sans MS to troll, or perhaps that's the only font that common people feel they see in manga. I just can't believe that it's that good of a font...
PS: I believe this poll has caused the most people ever (so far) to demean me and treat me like trash
