I must apologize since I actually forgot to change the poll due to all the family stuff that was going on during the Thanksgiving holidays. It's the first time that I haven't done a weekly poll in time (since we started doing this all the way back in the beginning of 2008). Well, here you go. This week's poll comes from a suggestion from our member psycho-shocker. What level of sexuality do you prefer in your manga? I shouldn't really have to explain this one...

Apparently people are disagreeing over the definition of hentai and whether yaoi/yuri should be choices. For the purposes of this poll, hentai means any material that is 18+ (I live in the US) in a sexual manner, whether that be heterosexual or homosexual. Borderline H is basically almost there, but not quite. Ecchi is limited to maybe a boob flash or something like that.

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: Last gen console?
Choices:
Wii - votes: 2941 (23.1%)
PS3 - votes: 5996 (47%)
Xbox 360 - votes: 3814 (29.9%)
There were 12751 total votes.
The poll ended: December 3rd 2013

And PS3 wins this one! I actually bought a PS3 during Black Friday... I'm primarily a PC gamer, but I decided to get the PS3 since it was a good deal and I want to finally play some PS3 exclusives (like The Last of Us, Ni no Kuni, Uncharted, Beyond: Two Souls, Metal Gear Solid, some Final Fantasty, etc)

Last edited by lambchopsil at 8:09 am, Dec 3 2013

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Where's the "All of it" choices? (the contrary of "Nothing of the sort")

I feel like this poll grossly undermine all the female readers out there. How about "smut" and "yaoi" that many female readers relate to more? after all, our line of erotic mangas are hardly "hentai"

Ummm where are "yaoi" and "yuri" choices? Are you delibrately ignoring the women readers?

No. Since in hentai, borderline H, and Ecchi there are already yaoi and yuri sub genre. Heck, even I know about this information, and I'm not even a fan of this kind of manga.

But somehow you don't see me throwing tantrum about this poll or any other poll that doesn't cater to my interest.

Probably because a simple known fact. That the world doesn't revolve around me.

Hentai. Because if there is gonna be ecchi and borderline h you might as well skip it and go straight for the porn.

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Where is the "All the Above" option? for Hentai, Borderline H, and Ecchi. If you're going to have "Nothing of the Sort" option, you should also at least have "All the Above" option. Especially for the people that isn't picky like others are.

What part of "prefer the most" don't you get? It isn't grammatically complex...is it?
It isn't about being picky, it's about being decisive.
It's actually more picky to get worked up over non-existent poll choices.
It's like walking into a poll booth and voting for all the candidates as your country's leader. WTF?

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Their might be hentai with yaoi as sub genre, but yaoi and yuri is still a genre on it's own. Yaoi and Yuri still has sexual intercourse (yaoi is supposed to for female audience and yuri for male audience. However their is also yaoi directed to male audience. This is called Bara, strange enough the opposite demography doesn't exist.) Without sexual intercourse also exist, called shounen-ai and shoujo-ai respectively. Borderline yaoi and yuri also exists, but it's most of the time marked with both indicators like yaoi and shounen-ai or yuri and shoujo-ai.

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It's really annoying when they just stop at the border. I've even started to hate the ecchi genre because of it. It just ruins a good plot and they won't go any further as they stop right before it gets interesting.


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I went with borderline h because while I do enjoy hentai I prefer reading something with an actual plot besides just a bunch of sex and a miniscule amount of plot. So borderline h usually gives me the perfect balance of plot and naughtiness. Ecchi I usually tend to stay away from as it is mostly a bunch of fanservice and ends up only being a tease.

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There are actually quite a few enjoyable hentai stories.
Brandish and Pandra being two of my favorites.
Though Pandra is more on the porn than on the plot.
Brandish has got a surprising amount of plot for the all the porn.

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I have to seriously object to that
there are 11600 series in baka update with "yaoi" tag
and there are approx 200 series in baka updates with both "yaoi" and "hentai" tag
and NO series that is tagged yaoi and categorized as borderline H

obviously yaoi (and yuri) is more than a "sub genre"

There are female readers out there that do read hentai, like me, so I don't really agree with this statement. Although I do prefer yaoi to hentai.

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I don't really like ecchi either. I find it the most annoying since it doesn't lead anywhere and it can just be a huge distraction. Something like Highschool of the Dead (I've only watched the anime, not the manga) was super annoying because I was trying to get into the action of the story, worrying about if a character is going to make it out alive, and then all of the sudden its just random panty shots and boobs jiggling. It just takes you away from the story with no real purpose.

I am the one who suggest this poll. So I will give a proper reason why I don't included yaoi or yuri in the poll.

Baka-Updates Manga definition of

1) Ecchi: Possibly the line between hentai and non-hentai, ecchi usually refers to fanservice put in to attract a certain group of fans.
2) Hentai: Adult sexual content in an illustrated form where the FOCUS of the manga is placed on sexually graphic acts.
3) Yaoi: This work usually involves intimate relationships between men.
4) Yuri: This work usually involves intimate relationships between women.

With those definitions, I thought yaoi and yuri can be either hentai, borderline h, ecchi, or none of them depend on the series itself. It just like comedy series can be either a slice of life or adventure. As simple as that.

As for why I replace smut with borderline h, simply because the definitions of smut is more vague than borderline h. I'm sure people understand that borderline h is something between ecchi and hentai, as for smut? I'm still not sure myself.

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