This interesting poll (at least to me) is from kayazala. You know how sometimes it takes a long time for the last volume to come out? Well, sometimes it takes so long that you forget what happens in the series. So what do you do?...

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you believe the Japanese are a morally superior people?
Choices:
Yes, and I'm Japanese - votes: 207 (1.2%)
Yes, and I'm not Japanese - votes: 3542 (19.9%)
No, and I'm Japanese - votes: 491 (2.8%)
No, and I'm not Japanese - votes: 13524 (76.1%)
There were 17764 total votes.
The poll ended: November 12th 2011

A lot of heated debates went down in the comments. I'm seriously wondering how BokoLife is using this data...

A just ruler amongst tyrants

It all depends on the series,
If it is a continuing story or not, the option of reading the short description at the beginning of the story( it's the text with "what happened in the previous volume").
And the most important factor is, if it is one of your favorites or not.

Note: Could it be possible to put up a better description of "long time"?
long time = 2 weeks, a month, a year or 10 years?
Well, series like Monk! or La Mosca, well I need to read them from scratch as I didn't hear anything from groups, neither an English publisher (Except, a French publisher that completed it.)

Even after dead, we raise from the ashes for the sake of manga.

...that you actually read the published volumes. I find it easier to read scanlations because the art is bigger on the screen and you don't have to bother trying to read content disappering into the crease of the book. Plus the tranlations are often better in fan produced work. So, I can't really answer this poll 🙂

• The art looks bigger, but it's still a scanlation, you can't make it bigger than it actually is.

• Your talking about a bad publisher. Every good publisher has a white border in the crease.
  I agree with that fan translation are better than most published works, their weren't many good publishers in the USA to begin with it (and off course they went one by one bankrupt).
  A good example is Tokyopop; incomplete translations, grammar errors, suffixes that were never translated, etc.
  I actually bought a lot of them, but when a series were I did have only one volume off had been dropped I bought it from the concurrent Chuang-Yi, I bought also than one volume double as I directly noticed the difference in quality, I was rather shocked, Chuang Yi uses very light high quality paper, thin but strong with a double layer cover, and a complete translation and properly edited like a "professional" scanlation group.
  And to top it of it's only half the price of a Tokyopop volume ( I love asian cheapness \o/ )

Well, the problem was that I loved many of their series, I jumped a hole in the air when I I saw Mangacurse releasing King of Hell.

Even after dead, we raise from the ashes for the sake of manga.

For me, it depends on the series, how motivated I am, etc. If it's a continuing story, I usually read a few volumes to see if I like it and if it's 10 volumes or over, I wait until that series is completely released before I continue. If it's episodic, I just read the last couple of chapters in the previous volume to get a refresher. Or if I really can't wait, I just read it on the spot. So it all really just depends.

For me, it I'm going to state what pretty much has been said already: It depends upon the series.

If a series I've been reading daily is finally complete, then I will not start over.

If it's a less priority series that I still find interesting, but can't remember much about, then yeah, I'll probably start over.

I see how my comments were a bit ambiguous there. I did not mean to say all published content is subpar in quality. What I meant was that I would rather pay for an electronic copy than for a hardcopy, unless the volumes had bigger pages like (GASP) American comic books. Also, I would rather buy all the volumes in a box set once the whole series has been published, so I can have all the volumes from a single publisher.

Stories that are really complex, I usually stop reading when I catch up to the releases and read over from the beginning once they finish, mainly because I've forgotten what happened and like to have things fresh in my mind. I always re-read the last chapter for weekly/monthly releases I follow as well.

This isn't limited to manga either, I re-read novels when a sequel is coming out, and re-watch films before the sequel is released.

I often re-read entire series as well if they are good, multiple times until I have them fully memorised. It's important for me to gain a complete understanding, and something only become clear once you've seen the end.

Exceptions are manga like Naruto/Bleach, where I haven't read them in over a year now, but would probably start from the beginning of the last arc I read rather than the beginning, since I can remember most of what happened and there are so many chapters I would get fed-up if I re-read it all.

The pen is mightier than the sword...and considerably easier to write with.

What's this "volume" you're talking about? Don't most of the series out there come in chapters in magazines first, then get packed into volumes? In other words, why talk about the last volume release when the last chapter comes out first?

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I think he think there are people actually buying mangas here.

He isn't going to use the data. Probably.

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You are like the dense main character in a shoujo manga.

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And you will murder someone one day, pika. If you're my daughter.

You might as well be buying the latest Weekly Shounen Jump. You mean people who buy volumes of a specific series and not a manga mag, right?

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