This week's poll was also suggested by Nyxsha. Now it's about lovers! I did take some of the options from the previous poll. You can decide whether lovers refers to the main character or a side character. Or maybe it's someone in your own life?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Worst character trait of protagonist?
Choices:
Arrogant / Proud - votes: 280 (9.9%)
Cold - votes: 39 (1.4%)
Dense / Dumb - votes: 1043 (36.9%)
Violent - votes: 132 (4.7%)
Genki - votes: 41 (1.4%)
Childish - votes: 241 (8.5%)
Cute - votes: 44 (1.6%)
Egotistic - votes: 225 (8%)
Pessimistic - votes: 96 (3.4%)
Emotionless / Expressionless - votes: 165 (5.8%)
Lazy - votes: 63 (2.2%)
Simple-minded - votes: 163 (5.8%)
Yandere - votes: 298 (10.5%)
There were 2830 total votes.
The poll ended: December 30th, 2023 10:58am PST

Dumb and still able to get things done somehow

A just ruler amongst tyrants

Violent is the worst... Yandere can be violent but at least not always

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I feel like yandere irl translates to violent+, because irl people don't act like manga characters, so that level of obsession is sure to transition eventually into abuse and controlling every aspect of your life.

Like if someone destroys things and hits you when they're upset that's already horrible, but if someone chains you in the basement and cuts off all of your contact with the outside world because they didn't like how often you talked with your coworker, that's probably even worse?

I love yanderes, but there are no irl "yanderes", just stalkers and abusers, it's a trait that's only attractive because it's fictional.

I never comment, and I always quickly do the poll, but this poll has way too much crossover! You have dumb and simple minded; violent and yandere (I can't believe Google dictation utility understood yandere—TWICE!); spoiled, childish and, to some extent, jealous and yandere yet again....

I'm not going to go on, though I could. However, if I had to choose the best out of all of these, it would probably be perverted, if slightly, or tsundere, if just slightly tsuntsun: like a tsuntsun spice.

I'd say that my least favourite manga trope is 'you raped/assaulted me but it's okay because you're the ML and I love you or will love you at some future point in time'. So it's a violent/perverted combination, but I chose violent.

Why do both these polls equate being dense and being stupid? They're not even similar!

Because despite all the IRL differences, in manga, the density tends to be such that the person has to be dumb to be that dense.

I'm a jack of all trades but master of none. Too many jars and not enough hands.

Yandere, a fictional creature of such intense jealousy and paranoia that violence is the logical outcome and murder is just another option.

Yeah, there are a lot of bad things here, but Yandere is extreme even for those.

If this was about real life—and considering Yandere was included, I don't think this is about real life—then arrogance/pride is probably what has ended the most relationships.

But murder with a side of "stay with me forever and forget ever doing anything but working and being with me" just takes the cake.

I'm a jack of all trades but master of none. Too many jars and not enough hands.

However, isn't this poll about real life? (Well, the question doesn't specify. )

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You can decide whether lovers refers to the main character or a side character. Or maybe it's someone in your own life?

~4400 manga completed
~1700 ongoing...

It's possibly a difference between British English and American English and the common usage of the word in different countries. You can see that the Cambridge dictionary simply describes it as a synonym for stupid, and then Merriam-Webster has the more nuanced 'slow to understand'.

Not sure I've ever heard anyone here use the word 'dense' except as a synonym for 'stupid'... we might use a word like 'oblivious' (more slangy) or 'imperceptive' (more formal) to describe the romantically dense type of character who shows up in manga.

we all know the real answer here is “incest”.

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あたしは腐女子です。少女漫画、たくさん読んでください。

Emotionless seems really bad

I think it says more about me, it makes me the worst lover;
on several levels

That's a good question. I took it to be about fiction, since "yandere" was included and this is a website about manga. Most people murdered in IRL relationships are murdered for other reasons than their boyfriend/girlfriend is an obsessive psychopath with no moral compass.

I'm a jack of all trades but master of none. Too many jars and not enough hands.

Ahh I couldn't vote 🙁 because the poll is treating me as though I voted already.

I really dislike cold lovers. I've read a few romances where one lover treats the other coldly, spends no time together, never shows their love. Those are the worst ones. I can't even appreciate the story because I feel so annoyed when reading about these characters. I want to cry for the other lover and the happy ending is unsatisfying as I feel it's undeserved. Meanwhile yandere stories are something of a guilty pleasure, and I find them quite interesting.

P.S. The above refers to my tastes in fiction only.

...Hop!