This week's poll was suggested by Naruto Gogi. Do you prefer to read stuff as it comes out or wait to binge?

You can submit poll ideas here: https://www.mangaupdates.com/topic/kilkdnn/site-manga-poll-suggestions

Question: If you're reading an original story by a Japanese author but it's online-only and formatted in a vertical strip with full color, what do you call it?

Choices:

• Manga - votes: 551 (28.5%)
• Webcomic - votes: 655 (33.9%)
• Webtoon - votes: 650 (33.7%)
• Other - votes: 74 (3.8%)

There were 1930 total votes. The poll ended: September 13, 2025

The way I understand it, webtoons are a subset of webcomics. Webtoons are vertical strip webcomics

A just ruler amongst tyrants

Time constraints exist obviously but I do make it a point to keep myself up to date both on written as in animated media before resuming an ongoing read or picking something new. Half is I like to be able to enjoy discussions on release, and the other half is that I don't like binge culture. Of course, I treat the releases as they are, well, released, some series release by chapters, and other as volumes. I would consider binge to wait to read a whole volume of a scanlated manga, but not to read a whole licensed tankobon, for example. Finally, I hate double/triple length anime chapters, let alone binging a whole season. I don't think I would watch a seasonal that releases all at once.

I just read all weeklies in the morning and/or evening...

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