New Poll - Drama in Romance

13 years ago
Posts: 10862
This week's poll comes from the mind of SilverStripe. For those of you that read romance, how much drama do you like in it? Very subjective... I mean, how much is too much? Yes, I do realize that not everyone wants to read about romance.
This week's poll is more about the comments and examples than the results. So discuss the poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=30939
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you still use IRC?
Choices:
Always! - votes: 781 (5.4%)
Only sometimes - votes: 1166 (8.1%)
Only to download stuff - votes: 2388 (16.6%)
Used to, but not anymore. It's dying - votes: 2194 (15.3%)
Have never used IRC before - votes: 3438 (23.9%)
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There were 14364 total votes.
The poll ended: December 24th 2011
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13 years ago
Posts: 18
Barely any drama. But not so much lack of drama as not being able to stand the cliche drama formulas that are used about 99% of the time. Don't mind it at all if it's something imaginative or innovative.

13 years ago
Posts: 25
I seriously don't need a mangaka that's a drama queen

13 years ago
Posts: 228
drama is overrated. mostly just annoying

13 years ago
Posts: 228
this wasn't meant to be a reply to maine12329
13 years ago
Posts: 133
Drama is definitely a must for a series with romance as part of it's main plotline. But seriously, some mangakas need to understand that there is a limit... And that too much drama will end up pissing off their readers.
13 years ago
Posts: 32
There isn't an option for: Depends on series/mangaka
Some do it better than others.
There still can be limits though.
After all, when the plot twists become as contrived as an American soap opera or a Mexican telenovela, it is too much.
At some point, it becomes a case of the author just going through the list of cliches.

13 years ago
Posts: 131
good point, sometimes even with a lot of drama if its well put together its awesome. But in most cases teh drama is this constant back and forth between teh main characters that its really annoying.
I don't use "bad" words, I use SENTENCE ENHANCERS.
Sick of comedy. The more drama a series, the more respected it becomes to me, except when we are talking about gay heroes/punks (think Naruto) or yuri and especially yaoi shit.
13 years ago
Posts: 69
Never a depends
It really depends, sometimes i want mega drama, like telenovela/us soap/kdrama over the top drama.
Sometimes I want a little and sometimes none at all. It's all in how the author approaches it. Some people have a gift for the dramatic and some people obviously do not.