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Question: You prefer

Choices:

Manga - votes: 10751 (73.7%)
Manhwa - votes: 704 (4.8%)
Manhua - votes: 60 (0.4%)
OEL - votes: 12 (0.1%)
Webcomics - votes: 449 (3.1%)
Western comics - votes: 103 (0.7%)
No preference - votes: 2502 (17.2%)

There were 14581 total votes.
The poll ended: June 7, 2013 (12 years ago)

Question: Do you think manga would be better as color or black and white?

Choices:

Color - votes: 2690 (18.7%)
Black and white - votes: 7599 (52.8%)
No preference - votes: 4113 (28.6%)

There were 14402 total votes.
The poll ended: June 1, 2013 (12 years ago)

Question: If the/a main character is supposed to die in the series, when would you like it to happen?

Choices:

Already dead when the series starts - votes: 3188 (27.4%)
Dead in the first few chapters - votes: 1701 (14.6%)
Midway through the series - votes: 2356 (20.2%)
Right at the end - votes: 4407 (37.8%)

There were 11652 total votes.
The poll ended: May 25, 2013 (12 years ago)

Question: What if your favorite series was already complete (in original language) but the scanlations (for your preferred language) were too slow for you to keep up?

Choices:

Resort to reading / looking at the raws - votes: 2763 (24.2%)
Ask for spoilers / summaries for people who have read the raws - votes: 878 (7.7%)
Patiently wait for each release and read right away - votes: 5097 (44.6%)
I'll give up and read the entire thing once the scanlation is finished - votes: 2001 (17.5%)
There's always other stuff to read, so I'll just forget about this one - votes: 700 (6.1%)

There were 11439 total votes.
The poll ended: May 18, 2013 (12 years ago)

Question: Are you hard or easy when rating manga (on 1-10 scale)?

Choices:

I give everything a high rating if it's just okay. I like to be nice - votes: 344 (3.2%)
I give mainly good ratings, saving the highest and lowest for extreme cases - votes: 4372 (40.6%)
Most series are average, so most series get a 5 - votes: 505 (4.7%)
I tend to rate everything pretty low - votes: 64 (0.6%)
I only rate the extremes. Anything in the middle gets no rating - votes: 1066 (9.9%)
I believe I legitimately give a rating that the series deserves - votes: 2632 (24.5%)
I don't rate manga at all - votes: 1781 (16.5%)

There were 10764 total votes.
The poll ended: May 10, 2013 (12 years ago)

Question: Which aspect of a translation is more important to you?

Choices:

Accuracy: I like manga translation to retain characteristics of the language of the original, to show the linguistic and cultural differences between Japanese culture and my own. - votes: 9633 (73.6%)
Fluency: I like manga translation to read as if the author was native English speakers, so that linguistic and cultural differences are minimized. - votes: 3458 (26.4%)

There were 13091 total votes.
The poll ended: May 3, 2013 (12 years ago)

Question: If you were in an RPG, which class would you pick?

Choices:

Warrior (fighter, barbarian, knight, etc) - votes: 2755 (18.3%)
Archer (sniper, etc) - votes: 2425 (16.1%)
Thief (rogue, assassin, etc) - votes: 3192 (21.2%)
Mage (wizard, sorcerer, witch, adept, etc) - votes: 5374 (35.7%)
Cleric (priest, healer, etc) - votes: 1306 (8.7%)

There were 15052 total votes.
The poll ended: April 26, 2013 (12 years ago)

Question: Do you have real-life friends with whom you share your manga hobby?

Choices:

Yeah, we read it together! - votes: 482 (3.6%)
Yes, but we read separately and talk about it afterwards - votes: 5640 (42.3%)
Yes, but we don't really discuss anything - votes: 3034 (22.8%)
Nope, I only have online friends who read manga - votes: 1810 (13.6%)
No one knows I read manga - votes: 2370 (17.8%)

There were 13336 total votes.
The poll ended: April 19, 2013 (12 years ago)

Question: Assuming you know perfect Japanese (read, write, speak, listen), would you live in Japan?

Choices:

Yes - votes: 9009 (58.1%)
No - votes: 6314 (40.7%)
Already live in Japan - votes: 180 (1.2%)

There were 15503 total votes.
The poll ended: April 13, 2013 (12 years ago)

Question: Would you want to go through a gender-bender (gender-swap) experience?

Choices:

I'm a girl, yes - votes: 6320 (35.1%)
I'm a girl, no - votes: 3037 (16.9%)
I'm a guy, yes - votes: 4240 (23.5%)
I'm a guy, no - votes: 4421 (24.5%)

There were 18018 total votes.
The poll ended: April 5, 2013 (12 years ago)

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