I started out as a Shoujo junkie. Then I wanted to read some more mangas outside of the demographic. So I read some Shounen mangas (and a bit of Seinen & Josei) and now I'm reading a whole variety of titles, even though I'm still a Shoujo junkie. Let's just say, my tastes widened.

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I read so much mangas, I'm too lazy to watch anime!

Manga I'm loving ATM: Heart no Kuni no Alice

I started reading manga relatively late...so I guess I skipped the shounen fanboy phase and went straight for seinen and josei (mostly slice of life)

Exception would be watching dragon ball as a kid.

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I started with shounen, then read seinen, and now I read both shounen and seinen manga.

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I started out as a shounen (including sports) fangirl in the mid '90s. I also tried shoujo titles popular then, such as Watase Yuu''s works and Red River's author's works through friends who also read manga. I thought most of those popular shoujo titles were boring. I didn't started reading "classic" shoujo (like the 70s and the 80s) and more variety of shoujo titles (i.e. non-romance) until much later. I still think Angel Sanctuary and RG Veda are classics. However, the "rape = love" shoujo smut manga really made my eyes roll.

I read the discussion on worst shoujo and shounen chiches. I tend to agree with most of them. Don't cliches become cliches when you have read a lot of them? However, I already hated those cliches the first time I encountered them. Look at the popular shounen manga I used to read and how many cliches they have! I always skipped the bad parts when I read the shounen.

Can't say my taste has changed a lot. It's just that I have access to more variety of manga through the Internet now. So I read those from any genre and almost any demographic that I think interesting and contain as few cliches as possible (too bad sometimes I still have to deal with them - they are really that unavoidable).

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Never quite lost my taste for the manga I liked though I did lose my taste for american comics years ago. In a sense, my tastes evolved from action, to perverted to pervert+hentai+harem+genderbender+yuri.

Hmmm

My taste has changed, but I think it's due to the fact that i've read nearly all the scanlated manga in the genres I like, for example harem XD

I've gone into way more mature manga as well. I am seriously liking supernatural manga at the moment, and they've always gotta have a bit of romance in them - just the way I like it

I can't read shoujo though. I've tried because the plots are right up my street but i cant stomach the art work. It's not the type of drawings I like. That why I end up reading shounen alot. The artwork is satisfactory for me

I think it changed a little bit. I used to really just read things that were comedic, long running, but now, I have little to no patience with anything that has some over used story line and that is more than 1 volume long.

So I guess I've gotten more pickier?

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When i started off reading manga, it wasichigo 100%, I was addicted to it and went on a marathon of it. I use to love harems and what usually came with it (Etchi stuff). But then I got bored after watching love Hina and all those harems show and went to battle type shonen manga (almost everything shonen jump had to offer). Although I still read their titles, I don't really like anything else new that comes out in shonen jump, I started going to slice of life XD. I loved that genre and still do know but I went to Josie (I don't know why) and then went to seinen right after. I tried shoujo, but I've only finished two titles (Cat street and Aishiteruze Baby) because they tend to repeat. Now I just read all but i don't like Shonen like Toriko or too shoujo-ish manga.

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I started off reading manga around four years ago. Began with Shonen standard stuff, like Rave Master, Cowboy Bebop, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dragonball and some others.
After a while, I was kind've clueless as where to go from there. I luckily stumbled upon the first volume of Akira when I was in a bookstore one day, and since I had already watched the anime (which really blew me over), the obvious decision was to buy it. That was my first step into Seinen, and my move away from Shonen.
Now I almost exclusively read Seinen, but there are a select few Shonen titles (mostly classics like Buddha, Cyborg 009, and others like [m]Keroro Gunso[/m] and One Piece) that I enjoy.
At this stage, I find myself interested more in obscure, underground and vintage manga. I've stayed from some of the most popular Seinen titles in the market (e.g. Berserk and Monster), and I probably will for a while. Underappreciated manga will always have my attention.
I'm also trying to expand my taste into Josei. I'm still researching a bit an checking out some of the more known titles though...

My taste in manga changed in the most drastic, and strangest way possible. Most peoples' tastes just mature, not warp like mine; I went from one extreme to another. I started reading mostly shoujo and yaoi manga, like Full Moon wo Sagashite and Clamp stuff, and now I read only serious and often violent seinen and ecchi manga, like Zetman, Vindland Saga, and My Balls. In the middle I read lots of shounen manga.

It's like I gradually changed gender, sexual orientation, and interests, even though on the outside I'm still same little girl. Now I can't stand any of the stuff I used to read. The art doesn't appeal, the cliches aggravate me and the characters just seem dull.

yeah, went from comedy to drama.....but i'm actually starting to get back into comedy again though

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I started out when I was in elementary school and my mom bought me Cardcaptor Sakura.
Then, she bought me Chobits.
From there, I got into shounen stuff, then shoujo because the shounen stuff was so long (five-hundred-something chapters is too much).

A lot of the shoujo manga was short and brainless, so I could read it without having to pay attention to the plot. Eventually, the cliches became too much so that they failed to amuse me, and then I actually had to put in effort to find something amusing. Also, the huge eyes and girly boys began to annoy me to the point of disgust. (Right now, I don't really like shoujo manga too much.)

I then started the yaoi stuff (which played out like the shoujo stuff above), followed by yuri, and followed by hentai, all with seinen stuff scattered throughout and the occasional shounen, josei, or shoujo.
Ehh... Basically, I like random stuff from everything, now. I'll try almost anything if it doesn't seem too boring.

I've always been a sucker for things with character development/intriguing plots and people with mental issues (with some action), whether it was starting out or now.
I also always liked comedy...
I also like some slice-of-life stuff now, though. I'm not sure if I liked that before.
I'm definitely a lot pickier with art now than I was before.

I don't know what I like, really. It all got mixed and muddled up...

There was a time when I read shōnen...
Now I can't do anything but shout in agony
when I read it.

Art=hentai, hentai= I like.

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When i first started i was watching anime seinin/romance/comedy stuff ex.Naruto, Bleach,Shakugan no Shana, buso renkin, Yamato shingi henge,Ghost Hunt etc. while i still love stuff like that im more into Romance manga now the kind that has some sort of plot at least ~_~ could never stand smut or pointless shoujo manga. though now that romance/shoujo is starting to annoy me im going back to stuff that acutally has an awesome plot -.- More action and fantasy stuff with a bit of romance and i will NEVER like yaoi....*shudder*..my horizons dont expand THAT far XD one time i innocently stumbled on a yaoi episode @_@ when i was like 12.....the first 5 sec..well you can imagine it. anyways scarred for life. same with yuri, weirds me out @_@ but maybe thats cause im straight? do straight ppl like manga like that? or only gay/lesbian ppl?

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