New Poll - Best Josei
16 years ago
Posts: 1353
Actually I was surprised to find that Usagi Drop is more than a cute innocent slice of life manga. The characters are very well-done and surprising. I didn't expect myself to enjoy it much. It's at least better than Midnight Secretary. It's obvious when you have read both. I don't get what makes MS stand out in the list then...
16 years ago
Posts: 12
I didn't vote for Berserk and I'm a female, I was too busy voting for Vagabond. I think it's interesting that everyone just jumps the gender assumption to a ridiculous degree. Do I think a lot or possibly even the majority of XXXholic voters were female? Sure. Do I think they ALL were? No, not at all. That's as silly an assumption as saying only boys read shounen and only girls read shoujo.
16 years ago
Posts: 28
Aw, Honey and Clover was so close to making it in the top 5 :[
Don't Be So Kind
</3 cus of you.
16 years ago
Posts: 12
Um not everyone reads Shounen, Seinen, Shoujo or Josei in various combos either. I wasn't complaining or shaking my tiny fist of anger at Lamb for not doing them, I was just saying I was disappointed. And honestly with the numerous published Yaoi imprints in the US market alone it's not like it's a tiny market with only three fans sitting in a darkened room with a flashlight...
Oh wait, that's just me. 😛
It was a simple statement that I didn't expect a response to because basically it's a "too bad for you, not happening" thing, but your reasoning for why it won't happen made me raise an eyebrow because it can be turned right around.
Besides which these are arbitrary polls being done on a first series submitted in a limited time frame and then most votes from those series are going to be in the voting category. There will already be a bias towards only a small percentage because only a small number of frequent users will submit whereas many more will vote and then make it a point to complain when X series didn't make it into the poll.
16 years ago
Posts: 5
What other "major genres" do you have in mind? AFAIK, these four are "The Major" genres of manga, be it gender bender, comedy, smut whatever, they all fall to at least one of the four genres.
as for the best seinen poll, I'm a guy, yet I voted for xxxHoLic, why? coz' I have yet to read the others. And I like the works of Clamp.
16 years ago
Posts: 330
Shoujo=Girl
Shounen=Boy
Seinen=Young Man
So that's why, I guess.
16 years ago
Posts: 330
Oops :/ put Josei on the subject on accident..
16 years ago
Posts: 5
I voted for Nodame. It's a pity 7 Seeds didn't make it to the top 5 - I like this one more than Nodame.
And, honestly, I'm wondering what Midnight Secretary is doing there. It's so out of place =_=
16 years ago
Posts: 19
No Yuri/Yaoi polls? I was looking forward to those 🙁 Too bad, I guess.
16 years ago
Posts: 139
Yaoi would be fun :3
Yuri would be interesting too, though I do not read it.
Or maybe shonen-ai or shojo-ai polls, since yaoi and yuri are 18+
16 years ago
Posts: 156
Actually, I was hoping for yaoi/yuri! Ahhh, well...
Just a bit too into bad things
(and part of the yaoi scanlation group
Terribletrio!)
16 years ago
Posts: 140
Anyway Nodame FTW! So best Seinen xxxHolic and here I thought it was a shounen/shoujo manga.
16 years ago
Posts: 17
Love for Usagi Drop <333
Well I like Mushi shi too but im more a fan of the anime :3
commenting on the results 😛
16 years ago
Posts: 6
I'm actually pretty satisfied with what made it in the josei category. I would have liked to see Omae ga Sekai wo Kowashitai Nara up there, but Kimi wa Pet and Nodame Cantabile are two of my favorite mangas, and Paradise didn't suck. Though Midnight Secretary doesn't belong at all.
16 years ago
Posts: 991
My theory is that the people who would have voted for Paradise Kiss (or Usagi Drop or Kimi wa Pet) noticed that Midnight Secretary might win, became horrified, and threw their support behind Nodame Cantabile. Or at least I did.
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