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...

I am envoy from nowhere in nowhere. Nobody and nothing have sent me. And though it is impossible I exist. © Trimutius

Depends on my mood and energy level...

It really depends on the series. When I read Tsubasa Chronicles weekly I felt like I was dying at the slow pace, but when I later binged the series I enjoyed it way more. In comparison, I’m enjoying Witch Watch every Sunday, and I think if I tried to binge it I would burn out. I think Rumiko Takahashi series are like this too—much better if you read a chapter a week.

I like to read weekly, and engage in speculation with the community. But I tend to forget various things I'm reading and suddenly notice I have 5-6 chapters I missed.

I am on mangaupdates to get manga updates. It's shocking to me how many people picked full volumes

Guys, if your favorite series isn't good week to week, then find a more engaging series?? I've been reading One Piece weekly since 2004. There's a reason that series that aren't enjoyable week to week get quickly cancelled in Jump.

Every 10 chapters.

I read when I have time, so it doesn't really matter to me.

I'm a jack of all trades but master of none. Too many jars and not enough hands.

To me it really doesn't matter. I'm always finding some new series to read and it often has a lot of chapters out already, so I'll binge them all, then check back periodically for updates whenever it comes to mind - same with all my other series. That said, if a series is new and it only has one or two chapters out, I rarely bother to read it. So maybe I do prefer to binge.......

...Hop!