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4 weeks ago
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This week's poll about trigger warnings was suggested by both lollylopmr and Ruruskadoo

You can submit poll ideas here https://www.mangaupdates.com/topic/kilkdnn/site-manga-poll-suggestions

Previous Poll Results:

Question: Preferred gender for a protagonist?

Choices:

    1. Male - votes: 855 (28.6%)
    1. Female - votes: 718 (24.1%)
    1. Other - votes: 39 (1.3%)
    1. Don't care - votes: 1373 (46%)

There were 2985 total votes. The poll ended: January 11, 2025

Hmmm, slightly more want males. Now if we had done a poll based on what gender the person is and what they prefer...


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I'd like to see them used more often

I don't think they give away the enjoyment or even spoil plot points, if done well. And, I know of people personally who really do better in life because of them. It should be used more. Trigger warnings are most of the time about being mentally prepared versus actual avoidance anyway.

For this reason, I honestly wish I would see them used more in video advertisements, because some of these companies are just trying to shock me while I am eating a sandwhich or etc. It likes ruins the rest of my day.


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Sometimes they're fine, but often I wish there'd be less. There are studies that the sheer use of trigger warning is a trigger itself. And even worse: People triggered by something tend to feel better without warning than with a warning, because they're expecting terrible things even if the scene itself is not as bad and wouldn't trigger them much without a warning beforehand. (Though it might seem paradox at first.) Like, without seeing a warning, they rate a trigger scene less dramatic than if someone warned them about it beforehand.

Apart from that, there are often trigger warnings like "alcohol and drug usage" e.g. on Amazon Video, even though there's only a person drinking one sip of wine or people in a bar drinking in the background. It's absurdly often and the overuse reduces the general usefulness.

In scanlations I've only ever seen rape trigger warnings before a chapter and since I'm not triggered by that, I'm rather annoyed by the spoiler, though I'd say that if there's any helpful trigger warning at all (see my first paragraph), then it would be those.


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I think they are fine as they are... Though maybe in some cases more and some other cases less, but on average i find them appropriate


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4 weeks ago
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How about none at all? I assume all here can read tags.


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4 weeks ago
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To expand on what i posted, a trigger warning is the same as being spoiled, and if you want to do that you can read the genre and categories already.


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As in scanlation team using trigger warning mmm...~? I feel like so far it's pretty spot on, just enough when it's too much mmm...


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I think sometimes they're a little excessive (particularly when it's warning about alcohol/drug use because they had some wine or smoked a cigarette or something), and they're not always well-implemented, but I'd still like to see properly implemented spoiler warnings used more frequently. I think the downsides of providing TWs are fairly minimal, and if it helps people who need them either prepare themselves or choose to opt out of things that might be triggering for them, then I'm all for including them. It costs me nothing and it gives other people peace of mind, so it's a no-brainer.

When you get a warning about blood/gore at the top of a chapter of a series that has already regularly been pretty violent, at that point it's too late now anyway, and we already have the expectation of that kind of content in this series, so it's not really fulfilling any purpose. But even then though they're at most mildly annoying or slightly misleading for the tone of the chapter, not actively harmful. I don't want too many overly cautious ones that cry wolf though, since that makes it harder to tell when it's actually serious.

Well-implemented ones on the other hand are a very good thing to have imo. I appreciate things like a blanket warning for the series content as a whole given at the start of the first chapter so people who might not want to read that kind of thing can pass on it from the beginning. I've seen some series on pocket comics that looked like a typical rofan manhwa from the cover and the description, then you go in and it's like BAM immediate sexual assault right in your face out of nowhere with no warning, and I found it pretty off-putting.

Of course, sometimes warning too far ahead would be a spoiler, so a warning at the top of the particular chapter that contains the content is a better fit in those cases.

I think a really good specific example of a well-implemented tw that I've seen is from the series Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom (big early-mid spoiler ahead)

At the start of chapter 33 they gave a tw because that's the chapter where the ML opens up to the FL about his trauma related to being sexually assaulted when he was a child (including some flashback scenes),

and at the start of the next chapter, tapas included a summary of the important details for anyone who decided to skip the previous chapter so they could keep up with what happened without having to read through the whole thing themself if it was too much for them.

While you could argue that putting that tw at the top of the chapter was a "spoiler", at that point what was about to be revealed had already been foreshadowed, and the tw itself at the start of the chapter was vague enough that it didn't tell you anything you probably weren't already strongly suspecting.


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If the trigger is a main theme, eg gory, assault etc. once in the beginning is enough. But if it's only like 2-3 out of ever 20-40 chapters, at the beginning of the chapter is fine


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When I've seen them used in manga, the use has seemed appropriate. I'd like to see more trigger warnings used for novels, like a page at the back of the book that one can check prior to purchasing (for those who consider the word 'rape' a spoiler). I'm not really triggered by anything, but the tradition of male fantasy authors having their female characters get casually raped is a pet peeve of mine, and I don't want to contribute to a publisher or library purchasing more of that content. If it's a female author engaging in social commentary (e.g. Liveship Traders or The Broken Earth) I'll read it, though I definitely wouldn't read Liveship Traders again.


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3 weeks ago
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In social media use in general, I'm conflicted about this because I know how bad these things affect people with actual triggers IRL. But most of the time when I see people use it online my honest reaction would always be "we need to do this less".

In the context of comics, I'm generally fine with the current usage by either official or scanlation sources. In the context of Tapas, fück that shit. I need someone to make a browser extension to automatically detect that spoilery orange bar and cover it up with an overlay or something.


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3 weeks ago
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Except for the big ones, I just like to see them mixed in with tags. And I like to see stuff that may just ruin someone's evening in the tags too. That said, I would like more places to make it so both tags and trigger warnings can be put as spoilers so people who are worried about that don't have to see them. Personally, though, I like lots. I'm not too worried about spoilers and a lot of the time they can not just let me know what to skip, but what to check out too.


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Not all sites have those in enough depth, though. For instance, I love horror, gore, and intense/gritty action, but want to know if there are major rape scenes. Just because someone likes a genre or category doesn't mean they are okay with everything that it could possibly include.


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3 weeks ago
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I voted to see them less.

I don't require any warnings, so I'd like them to not be placed before a chapter/episode, as it often just tends to work as a spoiler for it...

However, I understand that many people find them useful, so they should still be available somewhere so the people who need them can seek them out. Perhaps it could be short descriptions on the back cover of a book or disc, or on a series' main page on a manga reading site, or the main show page on a streaming service. The kind of place where if someone is worried about a show's content they can check it beforehand, but the rest of us can just ignore easily enough.

I know there's also a website called "Common Sense Media" which is aimed specifically at parents wondering what type of mature content is in certain entertainment. This is the perfect site that people who want trigger warnings could use as well, to get a brief description of the content of a book, movie, or show.

Altogether, I think the warnings should still be out there for those that need them, but I also want them to be easy enough to ignore if someone chooses to ignore them.


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Pretty much agree. And thanks for the website rec, I've been using "does the dog die?" which has a variety of warnings about things (triggers or not), but doesn't cover everything.


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