| Most people here dont bother adding manga in their database. Even I never thought about adding manga when I first logged in on this site. Its called My ANIME list for a reason. That doesnt mean that users are prohibited from having manga entries, its just that most people dont bother. Another reason is that a lot of people only read the popular stuff. Most people here watch more anime than read manga. This gives them another reason to not add the few manga they have read. |
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| I barely read manga because the medium is made of mostly boring battle shounen, boring family life, boring shoujo stuff, etc and some of most underrated manga like Silent Möbius isn't even translated. Yes, some manga can be cool. I just don't like overly mainstream stuff like Attack On Titan which is too linear, too boring and too repetitive. Made exactly for teenagers and that's what happens when millennials write stories. Can't even write stories for people older than they are. Not even their parents would want to know their stories if it means falling asleep because of their unoriginal made up stories. What happens when millennials work for DC? They'll just rewrite Superman's story, but with zoomer humor like in Borderlands 3 or worse which is bullshit. Their graphic novels can go straight to the garbage for being made up without any style. Unless they pay very close attention to Po and that fatherly duck later in Kung Fu Panda. Just because something doesn't have a secret ingredient, doesn't mean that you can't make it seem very special. |
| manga has no colors unlike anime thats my reason for not reading more manga |
| Many manga never seem to end so I rarely update my own manga list. Manga requires a lot more effort than just watching anime, but I usually read on work breaks. |
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| No they can read, otherwise they wouldn't be able to read the subtitles. Unless all of you secretly know Japanese... In my case, my manga list is quite small because I don't like reading online. So it takes me longer to get around to acquiring them and reading them. I want to read more of them, though. |
 This ground is soiled by those before me and their lies. I dare not look up for on me I feel their eyes |
| Most people just don't seem to like the combination of plain reading and graphical storytelling. If it isn't animated or making use of sound, you kind of immediately lose a more realistic element of the presentation. You can get coaxed into and become far more comfortable watching something rather than reading something. I think a lot of people also haven't tried reading much manga before. They may've tried out something they've watched an anime version of, but probably haven't strayed too far out from that baseline. A shame if you ask me! You'll find the same effect with comics and film. A bazillion people will watch the next Avengers movie, and maybe a few million will read the comic book equivalent. Doesn't help any when said comic book equivalent is nu-slop. |
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| A lot of people here probably want color to their visuals. |
SpunkertFeb 13, 9:20 PM
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| Well from noting other discussions, it seems to me (and maybe I'm wrong), but I think some members don't enjoy reading as a form of entertainment In general for whatever reasons. Also the layouts and lack of colour could be another reason. |
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| Because it is a bit difficult to look at digital for long periods and physical copies arent always easy to get ahold of. When dealing with digital there is issues with loading often being a frustration. There also is a lot of very poorly scanlated manga or just no translation available. Some manga the art is very crudely drawn too though some is great. Some genres also work much better animated like action, you really cant have true action without movement. Also that isnt true. Some users have thousands of manga entries. |
| Because people can't be bothered to read or they want to see it animated (fights don't look that good in manga is what I hear sometimes), or they prefer to have physical copies of manga rather than reading it digitally and that's too expensive for some. I myself very much prefer reading manga, I can read for HOURS without taking a break once. Can't say the same for anime. People are different, there will be different reasonings as much as there are people out there. |
| They are fundamentally illiterate beings born without proper cognitive functions. They crumble at my superior, literate fingertip. My knowledge expands into infinity every comic book page I turn. True euphoria. |
| maybe theyre just misguided, like i was, i used to watch so much anime, and it was bad anime too, for like half a year until i discovered manga anime is like a sea, and manga is like an ocean, u know what im saying u will never get to experience so many incredible stories in anime that u can in manga "ANIME DAYS WATCHED: 500" FAVORITES: BAKEMONOGATARI, DARLING IN THE FRANXX MANGA READ: 0" legitimately triggered my gag reflex hmmm or maybe this has got to do something with phrenology |
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| The site is called my ANIME list, so yeah its safe to say its gonna attract anime viewers. Digital reading is literally painful after a prolonged period of time due to phone and PC screens, so there is only so much you can read before you need a brake. You can watch anime from afar even with subs so eyes dont hurt as much. Also dont believe its because they cant read, need to read the subtitles on Japanese dubs anyways. |
 "Don't let your memes be dreams."- Ancient Japanese proverb, probably |
| A lot of people are used to watching and not reading site is called myANIMElist, so it makes sense to track anime here and not care about manga as much it is also way easier to watch anime then to go and buy manga, rarely who wants to read digitally |
Me reading through this thread knowing i use MAL mainly to track manga instead of anime: |
| I think it's because the main thing this site is known for is its anime collection and so there are a lot more people communicating within the anime community and thus more new people visit there often. |
| It's not as accessible as anime. There's plenty of streaming services that provide anime content, and you'll likely find a version of an anime in your language, or at least with subtitles. A lot of manga is Japan-exclusive, and if there are no official translations, then the only way to read them if you don't know Japanese is to use scanlations. You also have to buy each manga volume separately, whereas, with anime, you really only need subscriptions for one or two streaming services to watch all the shows you want. |
| We French have a huge, versatile comic culture. We're born with it. But maybe MAL members do something better - reading actual books. Not the boring, over-hyped ones schools usually 'force' you to read. Dunno :c |
My Rereads | My Favorite Mangaka | Soylent Green Buy stuff, or buy at least your favorites if you can afford it - Don't be lame. D W-W&N 🤍 MAL is a far cry from being my main literature site, that's why I won't be doing mere single chapter updates anymore. Manga- aka Baka-Updates + 2 French ones are miles better and more thorough/complete + less restricting. The latter are perfectly suited for Manga/Light Novel/Books collectors such as myself. Less stressful/tiring this way. -g- |
| for me.... I have a reading comprehension disorder and reading anything from books to even manga takes twice as long and can be frusterating, so I simply don't unless the story is so intruiging to me I want to put the effort in. Also translations etc can be a issue for some who dont speak jp fluently lol |
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| Reading is considered as an active action while watching something is more passive. Watching is also a much more easily consumable way rather than reading. Watching a motion picture like an anime show is more visual and easier to remember, compare with written works or drawings like books or manga. Reading requires your imagination to interpret while watching a show is able to help you visualize the situation easier. Most, if not all, anime shows are produced in a concise manner to fit into a certain time frame (eg. per season for an X number of episodes) and air time (eg. within 20-24 mins); while manga comes from the original author(s) who draw and write the story for as long as they wish to and/or their publishing company that they contracted to. Reading requires conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, interpretation) to understand the entire story, a segment, or even a page of drawing & dialogues by which the authors are trying to convey to their readers. You also require longer and better concentration span to read especially for long series. In simple term, reading requires more time, energy and effort. This is probably why there are lesser people reading books than those who watch shows, movies or anime. Personally, I spend a fair amount of time reading (like manga, books, journals, etc), and watching stuff such as anime, TV shows, movies and documentaries. Every individual is different. For whatever reason it may be - reading or watching - it's up to you. Additionally, since this is a anime-related website, it is very natural to attract more anime fans. I wonder what does the OP prefer or like - watching or reading? |
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| It could be that MAL users aren't interested yet, or they might be using another database website exclusively for manga that I'm not aware of. Honestly, people who don't read manga or light novels are really missing out on a beautiful way of telling a story through a different medium than anime. Personally, I find manga, and just recently light novels with Mushoku Tensei, to be great forms of entertainment. I'm not bogged down by a 24 minute episode or a 1 hour and a half movie. I can read at my own pace or binge read as much as I want. I can enjoy the masterfully drawn panels, admire the art style, and reread certain chapters over and over again in such a shorter period of time. Of course, I can do that with anime, but it doesn't feel as good. Anyway, you don't find more MAL users with manga simply because anime is more accessible and widely available, or they are too lazy to update their read manga on here. |
| Television is a "native format" to me. I've been watching television since I was a small child, that means I have a deep, instinctive understanding of how it works and how to process it. But I never read any comics as a child, so manga is "okay, there are some pictures and a few words" and this doesn't translate effortlessly into "story", it needs work. I can't follow anything it's trying to convey through things like panel placement, I don't even have an instinct for which order to look at the panels in. So if I want fictional reading material, I'll read prose. Because that's another thing I've been doing since I was a small child. |
logopolisMay 14, 12:40 AM
| It's called myANIMElist for a reason haha. |
| People lack culture unfortunately. :( |
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@deg The epic comics version of Akira is colorized, I don't know about any other manga in color though.
| It's in the site's name like others said. I don't want to sound like a broken record either lol. But I think you "anime onlies" reading this should give manga a try it's very fun and engaging. @Saiunknown Look into the colorized versions of Jojo's, I don't know if they were official or fan-colored but I think they did a good job. Maybe other older series similarly have colored pages. |
| Because manga don't have sound and motion. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| I read manga whenever I am bored. But I do not display it on this site... |
| Some people don't like reading. I used to be one of them so I can understand why some don't read manga |
| Most people that I've met/talked to who read manga don't even use MAL. They just add stuff on the website they read. But also anime in general is always gonna be more popular, at least on a western site like MAL. |
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| I would assume it might be because they have short attention spans... |
| Some people do really develop a complex of superiority because they read manga? Lol. |
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Some people do really develop a complex of superiority because they read manga? Lol.
| @zaako nobody was implying that btw, just fyi. |
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@zaako nobody was implying that btw, just fyi.
| @DesuMaiden You can smell it in the post of the OP. |
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I would assume it might be because they have short attention spans...
| @DesuMaiden You are correct. That's exactly why. Reading requires immersing yourself in a story and imagining it on your own. It's very different from consuming video content that you pay half attention to while you browse your phone or play a game or cook or do anything else. |
| beacuse anime on itself is more popular than manga, it's a more accesible medium that takes less work to consume and the result is often better than the source material for some. Both anime and manga have strenghts and weaknesses (like every single artistic medium), and it's just that the set of advantages of anime have a broader appeal |
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