Nako

You should probably be made aware that this site is closing down.  Not much point in making suggestions.

i hope u finally have the time to take care of yourself, thanks for everything

As the current rating system does not work/is wayne by default,

I suggest adding a new rating system additionally to the current rating system.

In contrast to the current rating system, which fails to give a reliable approach towards the value of the story

while being but a mirror showing how "pleasant" the reading is for the "voting" people,

I believe an index that shows how much people would be willing to pay to own the tankobon

could provide a more realistic approach towards the true worth of the story (at least if the people aren't all trolls).

As with the current popularity and star ranking, I get the feeling that many people don't realize that they'd have to pay hundreds of dollars to legally own said high-rated (but also badly created) and long-lived series, especially those genric harem manga with low to no plot/character developement or those nonsensical Moe-manga with the obligatory all-female cast within a school setting.

And I bet that many of those people would not be willing to pay for them if they ever get serialized overseas.

However, that creates a silly oximoron, as they are seemingly well-recieved enough for high popularity and star rankings but would not be as popular if e.g. Yen Press was to release them for 15-20$ a volume.

That's why I'd like to suggest a rating option of how much people would be willing to pay per volume [if the series ever gets serialized overseas], something like: "nothing/wouldn't buy,  5$, 10$, 15$, 20$" as voteable options, averaging them as a number similar to the star count, maybe even shown on the left side of the star bar.

This could provide a better approach towards a realistic rating based on the quality of the story rather than just the reading "appreciation" and a better filter option to offlist all the manga that are just hyped up.

P.S.:

Of course, it would be nice if Batoto could also feature an option to list the current number of volumes released so that people can use their brains to process the amount of money they'd have to spend on the entire series and rate accordingly

Ohh man, how weird, the image looks somehow really familiar. Gives off a "light yaoi"/shônen-ai feeling? Do you have any other memories of it? Like, can you tell if one of the characters in the image is the main character or if it had any fantasy elements or anything at all? The coat designs aren't the most conventional, which is why I'm asking about fantasy, could be some super star stuff as well I suppose.

I feel like I might've read some of this back in the OneManga days... :'O

Over much of human pre-history, the most important social unit was a hunter-gatherer group of ~50 people (~range 25 to 150). Men often lived apart from the women and children, and inheritance (of family names for example) was typically matrilineal. Women provided most of the calories by gathering and processing plant foods. Pregnant/nursing women received supplemental nutrition from the gathering & food processing of their mothers/aunts. Men brought in nutritionally richer foods with less regularity. Solitary or closely related groups of male hunters brought in most of the small game and fish. Whereas larger groups of (mostly) males brought down occasional large game. Large game would be shared communally. Small game might be shared preferentially with close relatives/families or contributed to communal stocks for processing into preserved/smoked meats and fish. Although much of this is inferred from hunter-gather societies that persisted into the historical period, most has been checked with excavation of prehistoric sites, locations of various rubbish piles and dwellings, microscopic plant remains, stable isotope composition of human remains, sizes and wear patterns on tools, etc.

(Note that Homo neanderthalensis differed in having a much larger fraction of the diet provided by large game (stable isotopes, analysis of semi-fossil feces), with healed rodeo-style injuries from close-contact hunting appearing in both male and female skeletons.)

By analogy with late-surviving hunter-gather societies, although there were some lasting bonds of affection between men and women, commonly a child wouldn't know who their father was. Adult men might feel strong protective bonds toward their sister-sons (nephews) instead of their own sons. Just what mating patterns emerged in those social circumstances awaits more extensive (and cheaper) work on nuclear DNA extracted from pre-historic human remains.

Note that human female scent preferences are consistent with a biology shaped by these sort of living arrangements: liking men who smell exotic (different immune markers) when fertile versus preferring the scent of related males when pregnant or nursing,

Well, regardless of the religious debate which I see as subjective in this case, keep in mind that the natural state for human relationships is one female one male. Every culture in history has practised this predominantly, even in Muslim countries it's a small minority of couple that end up in that polygamous state. The reason for this is simply the natural order of things, male physiology has evolved so we are excel at going out an getting resources, whether it be wrestling bears to the ground for their meat or chopping wood for the fire. Female bodies have evolved to lead less active lifestyles, and be around the home more for the children. It's just a fact that women have less of the chemicals and hormones that make men good at building muscle, hunting, and just generally being aggressive. And I'm not disparaging women here, they historically have done just as much work around the home, taking care of children, gardening, making clothes, etc. as men have done getting the raw materials there. It all comes down to biology, and the fact that when they're pregnant and when there are newborn babies around, women have no way of defending themselves or getting food. And studies have shown time and again, that preserving this natural order of things leads to the happiest and healthiest families. So the idea of polygamous relationships (specifically talking about Anime/Manga now) can be funny, it can be hot, whatever you feel like I got no problem with them here. However out in the real world, it's a really bad idea all around. 

The practices you describe are from the historical period, with permanent housing, settled agriculture, and domesticated food animals. That's a rather short portion of the ~200,000 years Homo sapiens has been around. Even then residence and mating patterns often didn't correspond to the recent 'ideal' nuclear family. For example, in Japan/Yamato women tended to stay in their natal households with 'husbands' coming for overnight visits. Not until widespread urbanization did Japanese women adopt the practice of moving into their husband's household. Men of military age living in separate camps/dorms include numerous western examples, such as in Celtic societies, documented for ancient Ireland/Erie and some Greek city states, such as Sparta. Also in England as late as Shakespeare's time, most procreative sex was away from the home out-of-doors, rather than in the presence of other family in the small houses and large shared beds typical of most of the population.

Here's a hypothesis for you:  Apparent reproductive monogamy, combined with co-residence of small extended families in distinct households, was a social innovation adopted to reduce conflict over access to mates in dense urban settlements--where such conflict might be particularly dangerous and damaging to the social fabric.

I don't know of any statistics/surveys showing most women ending up as mistresses.  Also polygamous societies tend to have more unattached 'surplus' young males available as cannon fodder/suicide bombers/etc.

That said, with the relaxation of divorce laws in western countries, the practice of serial polyandry has become much more common:  (1) marry the sexy bad guy and have a couple of kids, (2) realize he's an unreliable cheating asshole and get a divorce, (3) marry somebody more reliable and sweet to help raise the kids and maybe have another one. Complicating matters a bit is that fertile human females tend to prefer the company of 'exotic' males (very different immune, HLA, markers) when most fertile, versus preferring the safely of related/HLA-similar males when pregnant, nursing or on hormonal birth control pills.

Long-term monogamy does seem to be less common than various moral authorities would suggest. Perhaps more frequent divorce has replaced frequent death in childbirth and large infantry battles as sources of turnover among marriage partners.

I'm not exactly against monogamy, but it's practice lead many suffering to women. Women tend to fall for capable men. A trait easily find in a married man. Most women end up as mistress, or worst lead to life of despair due to unfruitful love. As mistress, not only you don't has any rights, your children's well beings would entirely up to you. How many women end up as prostitutes or any dishonest works because of that. Though, they're scumbags who use polygamy to leech on their wives, but at least those women can live their live, head high, without to hide their marital status.

Hang on, let me see if I've got this straight.

You're arguing that most (as in over 50% of (which I'm sure you have statistics to back that up because it's quite an astonishing claim)) women fall for already-married men, and they end up as mistresses and eventually turn to a dishonest life, all because of the system of monogamy? It's not the patriarchy, the glass ceiling, the wage gap, or other forms of systemic sexism that keep women from having equal rights as men? Or socialized gender roles that tell women that their value is attached to their marital status, which is so ingrained in our culture that it would look completely ridiculous and laughable if you wrote out that post but made it about men instead of woman? Or the fact that we haven't gotten to a point in our culture where it looks just as ridiculous to say that about women as it does to say it about men?

I mean, if that's really what you're arguing, then sure, I guess monogamy would be a problem if that was the case.

Around a year or so now......like from around late last summer or so to now, mostly through the efforts of a very small number of scan groups (one or two main ones) that (I believe) do that and only that.......soft-core (borderline H) Korean webtoons.

Mmmmmmmmm......................................yeah, they're all pretty much garbage. To each their own and all,  but I've never had much patience for those cross-over type stories myself. For me, they have too much sex to maintain hardly any semblance of a decent story, and the story is too weak to make up for the watered down, over-censored sex. If I want hentai I'll just go get some hentai 

1. Regarding "I Am a Hero", those missing chapters were uploaded to Batoto but are currently locked for some reason. I don't personally know why they were locked (AKA the chapters are unavailable to the public) but I could ask around if it helps. As for the uploader, KidCongo is not a part of Illuminati-Manga and doesn't know anything about their uploading habits, he just tends to upload chapters a lot for people/groups (I've never really asked why).

2. Regarding the missing 1st chapters, I've visited the website of the group that did http://vatoto.com/comic/_/comics/chuan-yue-xi-yuan-3000-hou-r19542 and they don't even have a download link for chapter 1, leading me to believe that the uploader only added what he could to Batoto and didn't have the file for chapter 1. As for the series info, I've taken what I could from other sites (though, even MangaUpdates is blank so I can't be sure of the validity) and filled it in.

As for trans-trans, the group states on their site that chapter 1 was done by a different group (that hasn't uploaded the chapter to Batoto) so it's not their fault and they're not trying to troll, it's just that chapter 2 is all they personally have to offer

Yup, mine's doing the same.....it's probably something to do with that cloudflare or whatever thingy Grumpy's implemented recently. Oh well, it'll probably get cleared up. Maybe.

I use to be able to click on my logged in name "my content" and get a list of threads I have posts in. But now after a delay of a minute or two, it comes up with nothing like I have never made a post ever.