The poll this week is the brain child of our members crossyuuki and Lightmare. The key to the question is usually. May be a little difficult to quantitatively answer, but do your best.
Finally, we have a poll where you can discuss it on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=23530
You can submit poll ideas here (and try to keep them manga/anime-related):
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you make New Year's Resolutions?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 3066 (27.1%)
No - votes: 6879 (60.9%)
What are those? - votes: 1356 (12%)
There were 11301 total votes.
The poll ended: January 8th 2011
So resolutions are falling out of fashion?
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About the old poll, never done, but maybe it will be a good idea.
About the new poll, well I pick up new manga when I'm bored, so I watch the cover and if I like it I read the summary. If I can't find anything I pick up something randomly, and wish it's good.
About the new poll, well I pick up new manga when I'm bored, so I watch the cover and if I like it I read the summary. If I can't find anything I pick up something randomly, and wish it's good.
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The majority must not care about New Year's Resolutions anymore.
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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" (from Hamlet, Wm. Shakespeare; Act II, scene ii)
(Even though the quote above is from Hamlet, I first saw it in a Final Fantasy Versus XIII trailer on YouTube ^o^)
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There are many reasons why I would try a new series, not just one. The most common reason is because I've caught up or finished reading the many series I started. I chose "The summary looks interesting" because that would be the most common reason to try a new series, out of the choices in the poll. Many of the other choices also apply to me, I usually search for a new series through genres, ratings, mangaka's older or newer works and simply clicking on it from the "releases" page. This poll is a bit too broad and there's no "all of the above" choice.
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For me New Year's Resolutions are just an excuse to procrastinate - if you think you should change something about yourself/your life, then do it, don't wait weeks or months until the next year before attempting to change it.
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Why doesn't the poll have the answer "because it's my favorite genre"? THAT'S the reason why I read new series. I always only read shoujo/josei/romance series. And I usually give chance to ALL new series of those genres. ![smile](emoticons/beigesmile.gif)
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I usually pick things based on genre as well: Comedy. If I see a new series or one-shot in the releases page with the comedy genre tag, I usually check it out.
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For me it's a mixture of art (cover page) and the summary. Impossible to choose between the two. If the summary is good but the art looks horrible then I may skip over it (and the reverse is true as well).
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I usually read a new series (taking new as in I've never seen an anime of it either) because the summary makes it sound interesting. It's usually anime that tricks me with the art.
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Abt the new series, I didn't reply bc there isn't option "I collect everything from this genre/scanlation team". For me this is the reason that drives me reading a new title.
Abt the old poll, I really don't know what these New Year Resolutions are but I suppose they are kinda promises ppl make to themselves.
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Abt the old poll, I really don't know what these New Year Resolutions are but I suppose they are kinda promises ppl make to themselves.
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This. Shounen/Romance/Comedy for me.
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1. cute girls
2. cute girls
3. cute girls
4. summary sounds interesting
2. cute girls
3. cute girls
4. summary sounds interesting
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