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Site Poll - Chat Box 150 - Episodic vs. Continuous

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14 years ago
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You like episodic stories or continuous stories?

Continuous is better for me since it reads more like a book with beginning, middle, and end

Question: How do you prefer your manga plots?
Choices:
Episodic - votes: 905 (7.5%)
Continuous - votes: 7057 (58.3%)
Doesn't matter - votes: 4140 (34.2%)
There were 12102 total votes.
The poll ended: September 24th 2011


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14 years ago
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Same 😛


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14 years ago
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Either's fine if done well.

Also enjoy a good nonlinear on occasion.


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14 years ago
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Don't really have a preference, though continuous stories do seem to have more of a point and not just be comedy. Though sone episodic manga is exceptional, like Mushishi.


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14 years ago
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I prefer most of my anime to be continuous, but of course there are times where episodic is just the thing to watch if you don't feel like concentrating too hard or something 🤣

Edit: Ey I clearly wasn't paying attention yesterday. It's the same when I'm reading manga though. I prefer continuous, but sometimes episodic can be nice to read too.


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14 years ago
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Episodic can be a good read, but it gets frustrating if there is no progression at all, so overall I prefer continuous.


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14 years ago
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Okay, this is difficult for me because my ideal manga is a combination of both where it's episodic in nature, but has a larger overall plot that each one ties into and all the loose ends get tied up whenever it ends or sometimes some plot points get resolved while others linger on until a later time.. x]] But I answered continuous because if it's a long series that's just episodic in nature it'd drive me insane.. And I'd only be able to read some every now and again instead of all the way through.


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I don't really care as long as it's interesting and there's a common link to hold everything together.


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14 years ago
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continuous i guess even though most manga are repetitive and look like a lot of other manga the reason i started reading manga was because of the story and if i wanted episodic we have more then enough comics here for that.


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14 years ago
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I like them both, though I specially like episodic ones. 🤣


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14 years ago
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I like both, but I prefer continuous. 🙂


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14 years ago
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continuos!!~! but i like episodic too. because ya.. but i relly love both!!


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14 years ago
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😀
anyways, if I had to choose one, it would be episodic
I hate it when plots are completely continuous
ideally they're a mix of longer and shorter arcs


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14 years ago
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continuous!
i find episodic meaningless =.=
but of course there are some good episodic manga i read 😉


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Both. There are some really great episodic series (for example, Mushishi and Yotsubato! are the only two manga I've ever rated 10)

I'm not surprised that most people prefer continuous, though.


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