Change of Taste?
16 years ago
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Quote from Rainy Days
I still like what I read back then to present time.
Though I'm "expanding" my horizons more now. : P
Same here.
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16 years ago
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Well... I think when I started reading manga back when I was like 14, I wouldn't have minded reading more mature stuff, but I didn't really know of any so I didn't. (Make sense?)
Not much has changed... I remember when I read Full Moon wo Sagashite when TW did it. I adored it so much. Then I stopped reading it when they dropped it so I decided to reread it now. I just don't like it at all for some reason... =( I'll always love Takuto and Meroko though and the music from the anime. xD
I also used to read like everything and anything yaoi, but now I realized that I am extremely picky with yaoi. >_>
16 years ago
Posts: 306
I still love Hajime no Ippo after so many years, and that has never changed. I still read Ikuemi Ryo and George Asakura. I still hate harem/reverse harem/ecchi. I still don't know why I can't get into a lot of shoujo that runs in cheese! or Princess. I still hate hentai.
I still haven't given up on Tenjho Tenge.
Not much has changed.
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16 years ago
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Quote from Kittycat101
but maybe thats cause im straight? do straight ppl like manga like that? or only gay/lesbian ppl? 😕
yeah. actually most yaoi are made of for women. and i personally like yuri, too.
and as far as i know i am straight atm.
16 years ago
Posts: 204
I used to be a die hard fan of shounen manga (I was a Jump fiend back in like 2001, loved Toriyama's World for everything they did from Jump). My group translated just about everything worth doing that was published in Shounen Sunday (I still hold that Kenichi is entirely not worth doing... and I thought so ever since chapter 12 despite my love of shounen fighting manga... such terrible terribleness).
Now I enjoy psychological stuff and survival manga... as well as anything that most people would call bizarre. Seinen is where the love is. And I dabble in Jousei when the mood strikes me.
16 years ago
Posts: 641
Change of taste? Sure, I used to be all shounen and zero tolerance for shoujo. But now shoujo is fine and shounen is not as interesting as it once was. What I liked back then I still like since I won't change my opinion of something simply because of time. Good series will always be good no matter when I read them.
16 years ago
Posts: 437
I guess the only thing that changed from before was that I used to read mainly shoujo, and yaoi, now days I quit yaoi, and I read more shounen manga...slowly getting into every other genre as long as its not hentai, yuri/shoujo-ai, yaoi/shounen-ai...Whispers God sees everything and I'd rather him catching me reading regular manga D=
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16 years ago
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Nope, not really.
I started with fruits basket since I saw the anime on TV, later searched the net a bit and discovered the thing called "manga".
Unlike books, I would read every genre of manga if the story and art are to my liking.
The manga stories I prefer are a bit harder to find, so I'm reading other nice things... For the past 3-4 years I have discovered many new titles, and kinds of manga.
I still want family style manga like My girl (sahara mizu), and usagi drop.
Or some romances of older couples. (don't really like schoolkids stories).
I like good action with historical elemnts like Vinland saga and Berserk (more fantasy though).
And since I've discovered the BL genre I couldn't get enough.
Also, a person can't have a "taste" in something he doesn't fully know of.
Like in music.
I've been reading manga for quite a while, in decent amounts, so I'm more confident in what I like and dislike.
You can't say you hate or love something before trying (and in this case, more than once). Gosh, I know too many people who say "I hate that" when not even trying out that thing...
So try!
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16 years ago
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I never liked school romance manga even when I was younger (Is anyone the same?). Most of them are just corny and/or cliched and pointless (don't know what the mangaka are thinking? Maybe it's the culture shock to me I mean Japaneses culture?). However, I do find a few good romances with characters still in school once in a while. They are usually the harder-to-find ones.
Romances featuring older characters who are out of school tend to have more tolerable titles is probably because the number is relatively small, therefore your don't get many crappy ones. Too bad many authors even incorporate those school romance cliches into BL - which I find weird. Nowadays yuri is either bad fanservice or trying to be cutesy (because otaku like that kind of stuff). That's why I can't get into most of them.
16 years ago
Posts: 51
I don't deny the fact that my head is full of shoujo/shounen/romance back then that is until my evil curiosity had me to read BL. It's obviously showed on my lists now that yaoi has dominate the lists. lol 😁 ...and yeah, i still remember that i'm really despised with yaoi & shounen ai before but, i still prefer BL than hentai 😮
Although, BL is my main menu now but i do read josei and seinen.
16 years ago
Posts: 134
i don't think it's a change of taste, rather it's more like a new flavor. we initially start reading something for specific reasons, whether it be about the action the artwork or the echiness. we continue reading things of the same genre until there comes a point when we read something that draws upon a whole different taste that you had never considered. it's like looking at a paint a picture and thinking it's complete until someone comes along and suggests a whole spectrum of colors that you had never considered before.
the more you read manga, the more genres you get exposed to and the wider our tastes get. thats why, though i have gotten somewhat bored of them, i think of naruto and bleach as a gateway manga. people will start reading this uberly popular manga and be satisfied but after a while they will begin to want more and be exposed to the infinite world that is manga.
i like comics as well
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16 years ago
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I am still the same, Love for comedy and Good and mature plots ^_^
But I started to read manga a little over a year ago...
I am happy to say I was never a shonentard ^_^
The only 2 Shounen I loved are DB, Space Adventure Cobra and Samurai X Amines and I was a kid back then.
14 years ago
Posts: 1036
When I began reading manga it was at my bro's friend's house when I was 7-8, with him giving me stuff to read. So I only had a limited amount of licensed shounen then, mainly Jing: King of Bandits and the beginning few volumes of Bleach (when the plot was still good).
Once I began reading manga as a hobby ages 11-12 I was addicted to shoujo+comedy+romance. The cliche fluff stuff. Now, at 15, I'm choosing mainly seinen/josei and funny shounen/shoujo.
Manga in generally I'm pickier about the comedy and the epic-ness. I end up leaning towards manga with taboo/moral-challanging themes (like Believers and Kayou Gogo 9-ji).
...and that's how my tastes changed in the past few years. 😮
Though I still love mahou shoujo.
14 years ago
Posts: 149
Quote from Kittycat101
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? 😕
Of course het ppl like gay/lesbian themes and why not? The GLTB ppl also consume het art. We cannot be as separated, we live in one world. The opposite will be like a phobia from the another's difference. It is also like not liking some music that belongs to another race, I know ppl who do that, this is unfair.
It is like in RL where het males like lesbian porn and het females like gay porn (me too). And I read few yuri althought I'm het female. I liked them. I'm sure the age has matter bc how much older you are that much you explore more things.
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I guess the only thing that changed from before was that I used to read mainly shoujo, and yaoi, now days I quit yaoi, and I read more shounen manga...slowly getting into every other genre as long as its not hentai, yuri/shoujo-ai, yaoi/shounen-ai...Whispers God sees everything and I'd rather him catching me reading regular manga D=
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14 years ago
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I started reading manga about 7 years ago, while I was still in my teens, and I don't think that my tastes have changed, it had mostly been expanding.....
I have always been a picky reader and have never really liked the lovey-dovey type stories much, so there is a lot of shojo that I've never read nor will I read, even though my prefered demographics seem to be in the shonen/shojo genres...
I tend to read anything that sounds interesting, but I've noticed that I used to be a lot more open minded about reading smut, now if i see a smut tag on a manga, I try to avoid it, I just feel that the smut takes away from the actual story, and most of the girls in smut are the dumb kind that I avoid in typical shojo, but with the added bonus of being dumb and usually coerced into sex...ugh...
that is not to say that I am prudish or anything, as I do enjoy reading shonen-ai/yaoi, but I have recently noticed that I am getting bored of the typical yaoi where there is no plot, just mindless sex....I'm tired of the uke that falls for the seme for no apparent reason, or vice-versa, they fall for each other just cus they're pretty....or the pseudo-rape that runs rampart in a lot of yaois, or the plots where the uke is being molested by some dude, seme comes along saves the uke cus he's always been in love with him, and uke falls in love w/ seme just because...
needless to say, I still read quite a bit of yaoi, but prefer the stories that also involve some drama/tragedy/psychological aspect...I tend to avoid the comedy/yaoi for some reason....
And I definately keep away from yuri/shojo-ai, have never read any manga that features those topics at least not as the main focus, nor do I think I ever will....it just doesn't catch my interest...
As a whole I started reading shonen and shojo's and probably keep reading mostly stories in those genres, but I have expanded over to yaoi/shonen-ai, some seinen, some josei, some comedy, but mostly I;ve stuck to the genres that got me into anime.manga in the first place....
