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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you believe that loli and shota manga should not exist?
Choices:
Yes, they should never exist - votes: 2255 (32%)
No, it's just fiction - votes: 4787 (68%)
There were 7042 total votes.
The poll ended: May 21st 2016
Sorry, if I had realized that we had done a poll similar to this before, I would never have chosen it. Honestly, I feel the older poll was a lot better (the one that ended on November 22, 2014)
Comments (limited to first 100 replies)
» residentgrigo on May 21st, 2016, 1:59am
Have a look back at May 1st 2010 too: What should MangaUpdates do about Shotacon/Lolicon?
Got more broad, so I like a wider variety of series. It had too! I could hardly just pirate everything and there were way fewer translations too. I also grew into an adult and so on.
Yet i was a slave to "serious" manga from the beginning. The first one i bought were Eva (when it first seemed that it would be published regularly) and GitS 2.0 as i assumed that it was the sequel to the film and not a confusing soft-core porno.
» KaoriNite on May 21st, 2016, 2:03am
P.S. @residentgrigo I completely forgot about 11/22/14 too. I knew it had been a topic before, but for some reason I thought my question was different, lol. Maybe we're getting old..
» Trimutius on May 21st, 2016, 4:17am
» achyif on May 21st, 2016, 4:20am
Then again, my tastes haven't changed that much since I started reading manga, genre-wise. I still prefer the same kinds of series I preferred at the beginning. I'm just now less easily pleased and more picky about the series I start reading. So technically it's the same. Maybe I just never actively took notice of what I like?
Huh. Can I change my poll answer?
» VawX on May 21st, 2016, 5:41am
» tactics on May 21st, 2016, 6:11am
Now if the protagonist is an "ordinary high school boy" I am automatically no longer interested.
I want girls and only girls. Cute girls doing cute things is what I live for. Give me yuri.
(Well not all the time. Older male protagonists, hell older characters are also something that interests me. So it's not having male characters that bore me, it's just the same recycled shit you see over and over again that bores me. I read far too many harems in my time. I'm not surprised I got tired of it lmao)
» kurotaito on May 21st, 2016, 6:55am
» Karonhioktha on May 21st, 2016, 7:08am
I used to read lots of those generic shoujo, school life, and shounen stuff.
Now I usually avoid shoujo, don't like school settings much, and get real tired of shounen; especially if it's from Jump. I'm more of a josei/seinen person now, with some exceptions of course.
Some things never change though. I'm still not a big fan of ecchi and harem.
» train93 on May 21st, 2016, 7:11am
» vivant on May 21st, 2016, 7:18am
Some things never change, I still like supernatural theme.
I used to hate romance so much, but now I read a title or two..
And after trying to read yaoi and yuri, I find it pretty interesting (although I can't say the same about yuri, still not my thing)
I liked fantasy genre very much when I was a child, thinking that a child's life is kinda boring, and how amazing it would be if I can live in different world. But now,, living in one world is already hard (the real world), why would I (the current me) bother with living in another nonexistent world..?
Another thing about SoL, my child self thought that reading it is kinda boring since "it's life". You are living a life now, why should bother reading something about life anymore? But now I've read some SoL and it isn't that bad actually.. I can relate to it pretty easily, even the more mature and dark one.
And the unexpected one is I read more comedy now, maybe adults life is so cold that I need something funny to laugh about. . .
» barbapapa on May 21st, 2016, 7:36am
» calstine on May 21st, 2016, 8:10am
I started reading stuff tagged mature and adult, gave shounen-ai and shoujo-ai a go and eventually progressed to (non-smutty - they exist!) yaoi and yuri, developed a real tastes for cutesy slice-of-life and school-life series, and found out that not all ecchi manga were insufferable, especially if they were non-romance/harem. Heck, I can even tolerate mecha and comedic harem now (sometimes).
That being said, there are genre I'll never touch with a 10-foot pole, and have never felt the slightest inclination to: smut, hentai, shota, loli. I think I'd have to be reincarnated as a completely different person to be able to stomach those.
But, like some others have mentioned before, I've become much more sensitive towards cliches, so even though my genre range has widened considerably, my tastes have become more specific.
» RoxFlowz on May 21st, 2016, 9:20am
» drunkguy on May 21st, 2016, 12:36pm
» Mamsmilk on May 21st, 2016, 1:49pm
» cranga on May 21st, 2016, 5:50pm
» residentgrigo on May 22nd, 2016, 3:15am
http://escapistmagazine.com/news/view/131872-Hayao-Miyazak i-Anime-Suffers-Because-the-Industry-is-Full-of-Otaku
» cranga on May 22nd, 2016, 1:36pm
» residentgrigo on May 22nd, 2016, 3:27pm
I have been watching anime for more than 20 years and we have way less variety now than in the 90s / 00s despite twice the output. The OVA format is 100% dead, anime films basically went to shit and Ghibli managed to collapse, despite being the only studio non-anime fans know about! Riddle me that Batman, or wait for one of MU´s seasonal anime run-downs, i´ll take you to school. Till then.
On another note: I saw the "rotten" X-men Apocalypse today and it is one of the best films i saw in years! The film is borderline perfect, yet at least critical tastes changed and it´s all Disney formula-making all the time in Hollywood right now. Change can be bad, you all!
» cecropiamoth on May 21st, 2016, 6:49pm
You said my own reaction to this question better than I could! I started reading manga and anime 11 years ago, in headlong flight from American light entertainment of all kinds. I am an adult (and was then), and was just sick of my native land's own collection of Standard Stories and Culture Wars propaganda. My favorite manga find back then was "Strawberry 100", which was such a wonderful redoing and improving of my vaguely-remembered, unfulfilling teenage life that I couldn't put it down.
Now, having seen enough of just about every standard manga style, genre, and trope, I just look for odd manga, like, for example, the pretty, clever manga:
"Nonscale"
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=77127
» mysstris on May 21st, 2016, 10:11pm
» Morrelan on May 22nd, 2016, 12:40am
» SKyz007 on May 22nd, 2016, 4:52pm
» licorice on May 23rd, 2016, 3:02pm
» pyrolobus on May 24th, 2016, 5:26am
» Identity Crisis on May 24th, 2016, 10:43am
» Luati on May 26th, 2016, 3:22pm
» Suxinn on May 27th, 2016, 8:02pm
But, I really like this current poll! I've actually just been cleaning out my internal hard drive this past week and moving all my old manga to an external one, and it's surprising how little my taste has changed. I still generally like and dislike the series I did before, though I've gained more appreciation for a wider variety of genres. (I would've never imagined myself liking alternative series like Coffee Mou Ippai or Ashizuri Aquarium as a kid, for instance.)
There are series I read before that I don't anymore (the typical WSJ series, Naruto, Bleach, etc.) but rather than my taste changing, it's more like I found exactly what I liked reading and just stopped reading things I disliked. (Though I have to admit, the first arcs of Naruto/Bleach were pretty good. What happened?)
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