For me its all about cycles
One month - usually- I read nuthin but super cliche shonen, and LOVE IT!! next month I look back and think why did I ever pick up this waste of time, and usually 'drop' about half the series I read. And i'll switch to another genre. When I first began reading manga, it would only be shojos and the popular shonens, but now I read whatever I feel like reading. Today I feel Like reading some nice laid-back Slice of Life, tomorrow I'll read some seinen, and after that maybe some mystery But, the series that I 'eagerly wait upon for the next chapter' are very few, some jump, and about two or three others. So, I'd say i'm kinda both open and closed minded, open when I begin a new series, but closed when I 'drop' it.

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Nah I'm more open minded I started out with a show called Vandread then watched and read FMA then it turned into the big 3 Naruto, Bleach and 1Piece then I couldn't stand waiting for more chapters I decided to read other Manga's thanks to onemanga,fox and other sites I became a Otaku lol I read everything from A-Z except Yaoi so no I'm more open minded I give everything a chance but somethings do get repetitive and you look for something unique different like Beelzebub, School Rumble, Angel Densetsu, Pretty Face just to name a few good ones I like out of 200 or so I'm reading right now

No, actually the opposite
i started reading Shoujo/Romance and i wasnt interested in any other genre nor really good plots, as long as there was romance and a happy ending i didnt care about anything else...
but now i read stuff that arent the least related to that so... yeah
the only thing is, im more picky now but thats not the same as closed minded

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I think I become more open-minded as I age, but I actively look for and remove prejudices and assumptions within myself. In terms of reading material, I tend to seek out that which will expose me to other points of view, but the more I learn, the harder it becomes to find such works, and the broader my search has to become.

I definitely became more open minded as I grew older. I was 13 when I started reading manga and I was utterly unwilling to consider anything that wasn't some fantasy/supernatural action manga with a teenage male protagonist. While Supernatural and fantasy are still my prefered genres, I am so much more open to giving new manga a try. Not just manga either, this applies to novels as well.

I have the same view of reading now as I do with music, if I like it then the genre doesn't matter.


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i been reading mangas for the last 10 years or so, the issue i have is more like how everything seems to be repeating, same plot twists, same plot structure, same cliches...

it kinda affects the stuff you like, and for everything else is even worse

like, i'm mostly a shounen reader, so seeing a shounen character go training like they do in every shounen bothers me, but not enough i would drop a series
however i been dying to read a good shoujo for a while, but when i get a shoujo i keep seeing the same things i saw in Fushigi Yûgi or any other shoujo i saw in the last 10 years, so i end not even bothering

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this exactly!
i feel you brother/sister.

back 10 years ago everything was awesome. because everything was new to me.
but after reading the same things over and over again...i get annoyed so quickly by that mainstream.

so i guess the more experianced you get as a reader/viewer in any media, the more you demand higher qualities, to keep you interested and entertained.
of course those are much harder to find.

lol, I think it's called "growing out of manga". Like no offense but manga plots, after a couple of years, becomes thin, predicable, and usually you start wanting something with a little more substance. I mean I stopped reading a lot of manga some time ago and now I'm diverting my free time to books mostly. I never realize how much a good book does....

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When I think back I really read any manga that came my way. But I think that was only because I didn't know that much about manga back then, and I didn't know much about finding manga either. And as Oriana3k says:



I can't put it better into words. When getting older you get to know yourself and your tastes better, and pick things out accordingly. I know what I prefer, and therefore tend to seek that out when possible. And I won't live forever, so why read manga that I dislike and feel like I'm wasting time on? Oh, here comes the whole I-Am-Perishable-talk. But really, when not amused, find another source of amusement.

But yes, I may be narrow-minded. I black-list almost every sports-themed shounen manga that I stumble upon, even without giving it a proper glance. And I've also erased quite a few genres from my releases-page here on BU. But I still don't see myself as narrow-minded. But as one says, the one whom can't smell the fart is the fart's owner ... Right ...

nope. doesnt apply to me at all..
because i tend to experiment more with the stuff i read as i age.. for example i discovered the greatness that is manga when i was in 7th grade, i mostly read shoujo, by 8th grade i read some smut, by 9th i accepted yaoi and yuri but not really got into them.. and now i am hunting for some seinen.. because my wish list is so full of shoujo

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As most people've said...
I've just become more aware of my tastes, not that I'm not willing to try something. For example I hated Hana ni Nare! and Love Monster, so I most likely wouldn't be trying out any of the author's new mangas. But if someone raved about how good it was, or if I read the description of the manga and it actually sounded appealing, I'd give it a try. Not saying I'd end up liking it, but I'd try it.

I'd say that growing up makes you more open-minded, generally, whether you like it or not. When you're a kid you aren't entirely aware of all the efforts going into making your dinner, so when someone gives you brussel sprouts you might think they're disgusting. When you're an adult, you'll eat it because someone cooked it for you -- and saying you don't want to eat it because it looks gross is considered rude (of course this doesn't apply to everyone).
It's the same with stories or films, you don't have much choice if your teacher says "watch this film" or "read this book" if it's part of the school curriculum. I could go on, but I'm sure everyone gets the point.

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I'd like to call it "developing a certain taste". When you know you have no feelings whatsoever towards a certain genre, it'd be very bad to waste your time with something you do not enjoy. I do not believe this is a bad thing, as long as you realise you're excluding certain stuff from your broad horizon.

I guess I am just going to repeat what most of you are saying but here it goes anyway.


I have been steadily reading manga/watching anime for almost 10 years now and as someone else before me said, the plot, characteristics, clichés, theme etc etc becomes repetitive. It's like you've seen it all before. So it's not about being close minded it's about trying to find something you've never read or seen before. But I also guess it has something to do with growing up.

I remember a time when I could watch anime for an entire day without taking a break, like literally. I was even afraid of myself, I thought I was going to watch and read anime for the rest of my life without doing anything else. I loved it that much. But back then everything was new and exciting.
Today I can barely make it through one episode or one chapter.

I even remember the "feeling" I always got when I finished an anime/manga. It was on of the most indescribable feelings I have ever had. It was like a chapter of my life had just come to an end every time I finished something.

But nowadays when I finish something it's like "thank god it's over already". These days I don't pick up new things. I am just following my manga or anime that I picked up years ago to find an end so I can move on with my life, lol.

No, I don't think I'm becoming more close-minded as I age.

I've been reading manga for almost five years now. For the first year, I'd only touch shoujo. After that, I got into yaoi, and that was my heaven. I never looked at any other genre, except some shounen (yaoi doujinshi as incentive? x)). Even today, it's my favourite genre. However, I read a greater variety now. I seek out manga with interesting summaries or recommended by others (even people who hate yaoi).

However, if I've had a hard day, and I'm going to read a manga to unwind, then I'll generally choose yaoi. But that doesn't imply that I am close-minded. It's just my favourite.

Actually, I got sick of being a yaoi-only-fangirl after a while, and I wanted to try more genres. Plus, I grew VERY fond of some titles and wanted to read more manga that would give me similar feelings regardless of whether they were yaoi or not.

When I was younger, I believed in reading/listening/watching what was 'rated the best' but that made me really very unhappy at that time. However, as I've grown older, I've been more interested in what I would personally find interesting. This invariably led to exploring more. In fact, I began to discover that some things which I hadn't liked before, were actually pretty interesting and likeable... eg, CLAMP's manga. I hated CLAMP when I was a teen but I look at it in a different light now, and it's interesting! ^^

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