This week's poll is from our member icassop. IRC = Internet Relay Chat. In today's day and age of online readers, IRC has taken a huge hit in membership, so what's your position on IRC? (And personally, I don't really use it anymore.)
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Can you tell if a series is manga, manhua, manhwa, etc just from the art?
Choices:
Yes, all the time - votes: 2868 (19.3%)
Yes, most of the time - votes: 7663 (51.6%)
Yes, sometimes - votes: 2916 (19.6%)
Yes, but rarely - votes: 698 (4.7%)
Never - votes: 695 (4.7%)
There were 14840 total votes.
The poll ended: December 17th 2011
Mangacurse Scan is closing its doors. You can read their reasons here:
http://mangacurse.info/scans/mangacurse-is-done/
This week's poll comes from our member ChocoKun. Basically it comes down to how much do you pay attention to the art style. Of course, it's a little generalized (as there are manga's that have a manhwa art style), but hey, it's an interesting poll!
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: A manga you want to read is licensed in English (or language of preference) but is only currently available in an e-book format. You...
Choices:
Already own the e-book reader - votes: 990 (8.9%)
Buy an e-book reader - votes: 226 (2%)
Don't get an e-book reader but just buy the series and read on computer - votes: 1177 (10.6%)
Wait for the paper version - votes: 1788 (16.1%)
Keep reading scanlations anyway - votes: 6900 (62.3%)
There were 11081 total votes.
The poll ended: December 10th 2011
Close to 1000 people already own an e-book reader. Well, I have been wanting to get a Kindle...
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This poll was suggested by icassop. Assuming you want to read manga legally (one huge assumption, right?), what would you do if it only appeared in an e-book format?
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Does reading manga not directed at your age affect your way of thinking?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 3538 (26.1%)
No - votes: 6310 (46.6%)
Don't know - votes: 3682 (27.2%)
There were 13530 total votes.
The poll ended: December 3rd 2011
Didn't think so
babel writes: *After three years and over four hundred chapters, Ala Atra Scans released their final chapter today.
Their leader, vteck9 wrote in the forums:
"Ala Atra Scans is closing down effective immediately.
The plain and simple fact is that we just don't have any active staff, even the forum is dead.
Nagasarete Airantou is being taken care of by Vortex-Scans.
Cahe is still up in the air and open to anyone that wants it.
It has been a fun three years but all things have their time.
Let us not focus on the fact we are closing but on what we have done, what we have accomplished.
It has been fun and I will never forget my time with the group.
Farewell and good luck.
Untill our paths cross again."*
XiongMao-kun writes: Dynasty Scans has shut its doors.
This one hits home since I actually worked for them for a few years (before the whole yuri phase). Cya, Casusby. (And thanks for the shout-out on your news post. It was a good time with you guys.)
This poll from MewMan is slightly vague, but oh well. Interpret it how you like. Also could use more choices, but it's past midnight right now and I don't have that creative mood right now...
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: How do you prefer your manga titles?
Choices:
Author's native language (kanji, hiragana, Chinese characters, etc.) - votes: 1912 (17.4%)
Roman lettering (romaji, pinyin, etc.) - votes: 5133 (46.7%)
The official title in my native language - votes: 2341 (21.3%)
The "popular" title in my native language (if different from official) - votes: 1611 (14.6%)
There were 10997 total votes.
The poll ended: November 26th 2011
The poll wasn't as specific as I would liked it to have been (now that I can look back into the past). Needed to break down English as more choices...
PS: In other news, late thanks for manga in honor of Thanksgiving!
This week's poll was suggested by sarcastic_username (yes, I'm laughing at that one). For example, take FLCL, also known as Furi Kuri or フリクリ.
PS: The results of this poll have no bearing on how manga are listed on MangaUpdates.
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: The last volume of a series you wanted to read finally came out. You will...
Choices:
Read it right there - votes: 5729 (41.3%)
Start over from volume 1 because you forgot what happened - votes: 1640 (11.8%)
Read the previous volume over again to get a refresher - votes: 3819 (27.5%)
Read this last volume and then start over to get the big picture - votes: 2130 (15.3%)
I never start a series unless it has already ended - votes: 566 (4.1%)
There were 13884 total votes.
The poll ended: November 19th 2011
Yes, it applied specifically to volume releases on purpose. I guess a lot of people have great memories and can remember what happened previously? Or perhaps they don't care and want to read it
This interesting poll (at least to me) is from kayazala. You know how sometimes it takes a long time for the last volume to come out? Well, sometimes it takes so long that you forget what happens in the series. So what do you do?...
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=30095
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you believe the Japanese are a morally superior people?
Choices:
Yes, and I'm Japanese - votes: 207 (1.2%)
Yes, and I'm not Japanese - votes: 3542 (19.9%)
No, and I'm Japanese - votes: 491 (2.8%)
No, and I'm not Japanese - votes: 13524 (76.1%)
There were 17764 total votes.
The poll ended: November 12th 2011
A lot of heated debates went down in the comments. I'm seriously wondering how BokoLife is using this data...
