Shoujo. Yup, shoujo. Josei and Seinen are automatically eliminated for their small numbers. As for shounen... I read them, but as shallow as shoujo mangas are in general, shounen is worse. Conclusion is so long as I keep away from school life romance shoujos, I can avoid about 80% of the the nonsense.

It's strange though. I don't even like romance stories, but they are way up there on my top three genres list. Well, I suppose that's probably to blame that romance isn't one of the genres I exclude when searching.

I read almost anything though, exception to hentai, and perhaps lolicon shotacon yaoi. Don't particularly read yuri either, since they are so BORING.

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I THINK I read mostly shounen. I don't really pay attention to the genre when I read, mainly just grabbing whatever I find interesting at the time. Only reason I assume its shounen is because it doesn't easily fit any of the other options .


I really shouldn't be surprised, but here I am all the same: That's a lot of yaoi votes XD.

Lol, I always wondered if I was the only one who thought that.

Girl/girl pairings aren't really my thing to begin with, but everytime I try yuri (the tasteful kind), it's so slooow-paced with lots of characters just staring at each other or talking about really boring things.

Confused, between shounen and shoujo. I'm so addicted to shounen at times, but I have to admit the number of shoujo I've read is like 10x than the shounen I've read, tough most of the shoujo are under the excuse 'i don't mind to read it', but still. You know what I meant fellow girls .-.

I read yaoi the most.

Shotacon and lolicon don't seem to fit since it's a single choice poll. I didn't think it was a demographic either. It's often included with one of the others such as hentai.

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I wanted to vote "BL", but it wasn't an option. :T (And no, yaoi and BL are NOT synonymous. So I went with shounen-ai, even though that term is incorrect and outdated.
Hahaha wow--the numbers for yaoi are impressive, though.

I read every demographic listed there except lolicon, though. I don't read hentai as much as I used to.

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The problem is the lack of good authors for GL. Girl Friends remains really the only GL I actually really like. Morinaga Milk is a goddess (god? idk). Though I have been noticing more GL with actual subtance though; yay! Collectors and Octave!
And girl-girl relationships depicted in manga are often really pure, and the love between them is often pure, too. Which can make it less interesting, especially to people like me who prefer darker, more complex dynamics.

And any of the stuff with the "onee-san" crap and the all-girls academies can go straight out the window. Most of the GL written by guys have no substance.

Off-topic, but... The problem with straight guys is that they read yuri for fetishization purposes. But then they naturally assume the same of all BL-loving fujoshi, and it's exasperating. Most straight guys read yuri to get off. Many straight and lesbian/bi/etc girls have a deeper appreciation for BL and slash--we appreciate it emotionally, not sexually (or at least not exclusively). The most we do a lot of the times is just scream, keysmash, or flail around a lot while running into things, or cry.

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Seinen. The non-bloody and non-ecchi kind. 2nd is shounen, then shoujo. Hentai only for fapping, as for the rest, not interested.

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I have no idea. Since I used to read pretty much everything (excluding some few demographics) I think it should be a close fight between shoujo and shounen. I still voted seinen though

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Yeah exactly, I only read it because it's pure and sweet and there's no men

Only four of the options are actually demographics (age + gender). The rest are fetishes that can fall under various demographics, with hentai standing outside and puzzled, since it can also contain any of those fetishes. Confused choices, messy poll, invalid result.

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Shoujo because of huge amount of oneshots I've read.

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Pretend they correctly labeled it as genre.

Totally agree with you guys. And have to disagree with @Baniita, I thought Girl Friends was a prime example of the slow-paced and boring yuris.

Anywho, I voted yaoi. The poll is pretty much what I expected, although I didn't think Seinen would be rated so high. I think its a great genre, but I thought Shoujo would be a lot more popular.

No matter what you do, romantic options show up in manga's that aren't tagged romance. I love Karneval and the relationships are not even close to romance, but somehow readers still obsess about potential love interests be it BL or hetero. Makes you ask the question: "can you appreciate a manga without adding love into it?"

I like some shounen but it's not very good at getting straight to the point. I liked samurai deeper kyo but seriously, it took like 200 chapters in order to introduce the main villain,another 60 for him to become a main character, 30 for the actual battle to start, and 10 for him to actually die. They were pretty short chapters but still, there's a difference between buildup and filler material.

I think I've read one good yuri. The storyline had plenty of plot holes but there was a storyline and the character/relationship development was well done. Strawberry panic had its moments but that's more shoujo ai anyway.