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New Poll - Manga Hiatus
This week's poll is from Karonhioktha. You ever get tired of manga? Maybe you just got too busy due to school, work, or life in general? What's the longest break from manga that you've taken?
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 Go Team
Choices:
Instinct (Yellow) - votes: 715 (8.3%)
Mystic (Blue) - votes: 1533 (17.8%)
Valor (Red) - votes: 991 (11.5%)
Used to play, but not playing anymore - votes: 227 (2.6%)
Want to play, but doesn't work on my phone - votes: 1104 (12.8%)
Not playing since not available in my country - votes: 932 (10.8%)
Not playing because I'm not interested - votes: 3102 (36.1%)
There were 8604 total votes.
The poll ended: July 23rd 2016
Mystic is pretty popular! And since the poll was made, the game came out for a bunch more countries, so I bet the results would be different if we did the poll again.
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 Go Team
Choices:
Instinct (Yellow) - votes: 715 (8.3%)
Mystic (Blue) - votes: 1533 (17.8%)
Valor (Red) - votes: 991 (11.5%)
Used to play, but not playing anymore - votes: 227 (2.6%)
Want to play, but doesn't work on my phone - votes: 1104 (12.8%)
Not playing since not available in my country - votes: 932 (10.8%)
Not playing because I'm not interested - votes: 3102 (36.1%)
There were 8604 total votes.
The poll ended: July 23rd 2016
Mystic is pretty popular! And since the poll was made, the game came out for a bunch more countries, so I bet the results would be different if we did the poll again.
Comments (limited to first 100 replies)
» calstine on July 23rd, 2016, 3:49am
A week, maybe two weeks, tops. Less than a month, though, definitely. There was a time when I got tired of reading series and only picked up single volumes or oneshots, and that phase lasted several months, but even then I read something at least every other week.
As of this comment, 'a month' and 'multiple years' options lead. Multiple years!? Wow. If I ever abandoned something for a year or more, I'd never come back to it, pretty much.
As of this comment, 'a month' and 'multiple years' options lead. Multiple years!? Wow. If I ever abandoned something for a year or more, I'd never come back to it, pretty much.
» alidan on July 26th, 2016, 10:41am
lol, I got tired of manga a while back. Everything I read was more of the same, and to make matters worse, everything I liked would get the setup for the manga out of the way, they they would just stop translating it. Hell, even now everything i enjoy is about 4 months behind at best.
So I fell into fanfiction, people writing interesting stuff in a world that's already established, When its good, its better than most manga I have read, when it's bad, it's still readable. I still don't read as much manga as I use to, I'm so sick of things never finishing, but the few years off let a sizeable stockpile of things pile up and a genre that i never imagined would happen or take off has multiple manga in it now. Not to mention the rise of the world traveler manga.
So I fell into fanfiction, people writing interesting stuff in a world that's already established, When its good, its better than most manga I have read, when it's bad, it's still readable. I still don't read as much manga as I use to, I'm so sick of things never finishing, but the few years off let a sizeable stockpile of things pile up and a genre that i never imagined would happen or take off has multiple manga in it now. Not to mention the rise of the world traveler manga.
» Trimutius on July 23rd, 2016, 4:15am
If manga in general then a month or so...
» RoxFlowz on July 23rd, 2016, 5:10am
A few weeks at most. I haven't taken a break from manga because I got bored of it yet, I only reduce the amount I read when there's less free time.
» KaoriNite on July 23rd, 2016, 5:11am
I think the longest hiatus I've taken from manga was about 2 weeks. Ideally, I'd read everyday if there were enough manga translated that interested me. Right now, I don't think I could take a month long hiatus from manga. It'd feel like something was missing
» drunkguy on July 23rd, 2016, 6:28am
About a month. Netflix binge watching got in the way of reading.
» MinatoAce on July 23rd, 2016, 8:09am
My actual answer is Few Months. But, as it wasn't included I choose A Month, as it was is closer than a year.
@lambchopsil add Few Months as a option, you got a lot of space to do so.
@lambchopsil add Few Months as a option, you got a lot of space to do so.
» kawaiiairbender on July 23rd, 2016, 8:18am
I think maybe 2.5 years
» Karonhioktha on July 23rd, 2016, 8:32am
I took a break for a year.
It was due to graduating university, studying for an exam that decided my career, and a big surgery. All happened consecutively too.
It was hard not checking manga releases everyday, but I boy am I having fun still catching up to everything!
It was due to graduating university, studying for an exam that decided my career, and a big surgery. All happened consecutively too.
It was hard not checking manga releases everyday, but I boy am I having fun still catching up to everything!
» residentgrigo on July 23rd, 2016, 9:52am
I don´t have a smartphone and freemium ain´t my speed, so no Poke-health-hazard for me. Going outside, jaiks. I will get Pokemon Sun (i finished all main entries) with Litten the fire cat and will review the game in that thread. About the game: Nintendoomed 2: Pokemon GO's Jaunty View
About 2 weeks in my adult life. I was incommunicado for that time during basic training for example. I never let my entertainment slide for more than a few days to not to be buried.
@lambchopsilI had the same idea later and suggest a version of I may have stopped for good and an identical anime version for the next week.
About 2 weeks in my adult life. I was incommunicado for that time during basic training for example. I never let my entertainment slide for more than a few days to not to be buried.
@lambchopsilI had the same idea later and suggest a version of I may have stopped for good and an identical anime version for the next week.
» Mamsmilk on July 23rd, 2016, 10:39am
I've spent a few years without.
» chineserider on July 23rd, 2016, 10:40am
Two weeks due to a summer camp where Internet was not available to make the delegates bond. lol I spent a few days catching up to everything afterwards. It might have been a month if I had not configured Internet in China.
» Natsuki@ on July 23rd, 2016, 2:18pm
Well voluntary it would be a week or such like when I was on a 2 week holiday but then I was bored and went to an internet cafe and it only became one week or just being busy with work or other media like anime or books.
Due to an internet shut down fiasco of some (insert a lot of swearwords) company I could only read the ones I had saved on my pc for a month. The internet withdrawal was really serious with me.... well since I mostly follow ongoing stuff I'll mostly go for a week or so without any manga but I'll only spend a few mins reading the ones I'm following and not for hours.
or just being busy with work or other media like anime or books. Due to an internet shut down fiasco of some (insert a lot of swearwords) company I could only read the ones I had saved on my pc for a month. The internet withdrawal was really serious with me.... well since I mostly follow ongoing stuff I'll mostly go for a week or so without any manga but I'll only spend a few mins reading the ones I'm following and not for hours.
» meshy on July 23rd, 2016, 5:19pm
A month, around when exams begin and I start binge-watching Korean dramas 
» mysstris on July 24th, 2016, 9:17pm
so during exams you binge K-dramas? sounds like something I do xD when exams roll around, I suddenly marathon a show or something. I just marathoned Beck anime but it's not that long. Have summer finals rolling up this week.
» kaloo on July 23rd, 2016, 5:51pm
Few months, though I was just reading novels and watching movies, so it's not like I was doing something productive.
» eccentrrick on July 23rd, 2016, 8:09pm
One year from 2010-2011
» mysstris on July 24th, 2016, 9:16pm
A few months? This was when I didn't feel like there was anything worth reading so I would take up another hobby. These days the longest is a week since there are mangas worth reading with regular releases
» Identity Crisis on July 24th, 2016, 9:46pm
Aside from One Piece, which I skim over most times, I've been on hiatus again for a while. I started Voynich around the time it ended, and that was the first thing in a few years. I seem to play more games now than anything else.
» Suxinn on July 27th, 2016, 2:06am
I took around six to eight weeks off this past year to study for finals and to finish my undergraduate thesis. I think that's about the longest break I've ever taken since I started back in middle school. There's too many good manga out there for me to ever stop reading manga. Anime, on the other hand, I often take months or even years to finally finish certain series.
» cheria on July 27th, 2016, 3:59pm
Longest time was about a year for me, or a couple of months. School got in the way, sadly. 
But now updates are easier for me to read since it's only one chapter and I won't really pick up a new manga to read during the busier times in my life. A lot of the times now I would reread some of my favorite chapters in manga for enjoyment or to get that manga fix I have sometimes.
But now updates are easier for me to read since it's only one chapter and I won't really pick up a new manga to read during the busier times in my life. A lot of the times now I would reread some of my favorite chapters in manga for enjoyment or to get that manga fix I have sometimes. 