I use both covers and descriptions as guides. If a manga has a really crappy cover but the descriptions sounds incredibly interesting or relevant to my tastes, I'll check it out. Likewise, if the description is lacking or doesn't appeal to me, but there's a hot, half-naked chick on the cover, I'll also probably check it out.

The covers usually grab my attention before the descriptions though when I make judgements.

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Tree + Taco = Tree taco.

Its probably my worse habit, if i don't think the cover is eye catching then i completely loose interest , even after reading the description.

the only thing that interest me more than a cover is popularity and how fast it updates... i'm shallow in a way

but i try to overcome thing, for many reasons, main one being that i almost didn't want to read NANA because i didn't think it was appealing at first. i was completely wrong it's now my favorite series

it's definately in the decision making process of whether to read it or not. but it's never the only thing I would base it on. It's like say... 1/3 of judgement goes on cover, another 1/3 on desc, and first few pages would be the last 1/3. But it really is an important part of my choice.

Afterall, the cover is supposed to deliver some amount of depth into the manga. if it's misleading, the author/artist or who ever decided that is a poor judge, only predicting a probable bad manga along with it.

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[b]Batoto

Do I judge manga by the cover? Every single day.

Usually good art is enough to enjoy a manga for me. Not to fall in love with it or anything, though, and I usually won't bother to buy volume 2 if it only has art going for it, but it's definitely enough to get at least some money out of my pocket.

I ALWAYS read the description to see whether it seems good enough to read (i usually don't even bother with series that have a corny description)
i also just by the cover, but its because of the art. i simply can't interest myself in something that has awkward/bad art because i get majorly distracted

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From the manga: Good Luck, Demon King!

i read the description and the first lil bit, usually i don't pay much attention to the cover

i read the summary of it and also i choose by the genres....my fav genre is comedy

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The Don: Young Makaveli

love is evil, spell it backwards and I'll show you...

"my mind shines bright even when my thoughts seem dark"

Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished

The Hate U Give Little Infates F***s Everybody

justILLMATIC

The cover is very important, definitely something I consider.

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Hand Rooster is a rooster made with your hands.

no i don't, usually i read a few chapters, then decide...but nice cover art can be used to get my attention.

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If the sea were made of Whiskey and I was a duck
I'd swim to the bottom and never come up

Well....i do sometimes judge a manga by it's cover becuz it usually represents the art that i like would see when i read the manga. If the art isn't that good then i usually don't try to read it much.....P:

Probably on some level I do but if I have change then I try to look at the art in the manga it self and I usually read the description before I decide if I want to read it.

If the description is interesting but the art is not good I tend dismiss the manga. On the other hand if the art is good but the description is not so good, I may give it a try.

I've also noticed that a great art is not enough to keep me reading if the story is not interesting.

Covers are very important. Wenn I browse comics or manga at the comics store, I dismiss a lot of manga/comics just when I look at the cover, because I know the story will probably not interest me and other manga/comics get my attention immediadly. One good example was the cover of I's, which got my attention immediatly.

Well.....Sometimes i judge the manga by its cover....

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Yes, I usualy do.
That's because the art is so important to me, so if the cover is crappy, I would probubly skip it.
There were a few exseptions though... The one I recall most is the cover of "[m]I want to becaome your bird[/m]". The cover is quite ugly...
It's also the reason why I kept it on hold (on the wish list) for a long time.
But the art turned out to be amazing. And one of the best yaoi I've read.

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Hrodulf and Bjornolfr, you will not be forgotten.

And if the world were black and white,
you would be my rainbow in shades of grey.

Click 'n Play!

If I had a fantasy self, it'd be a tentacle monster.

i usually read the summary or first few chapters, but a good cover motivates me to prioritize a series over the rest

usually when it comes to shoujo/josei. cant handle the art in some shoujo/josei manga

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