Yoneda Kou Poll: How To & Instructions
This post contains the instructions for the poll that I mentioned in my last post (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read there first). The aim is to collect a bunch of questions for the survey that is being conducted in celebration of Yoneda-sensei’s 10th anniversary as a mangaka this year. Since it’s very likely that only questions in Japanese will be answered in the 100 Q&A section that will be part of the fanbook coming out this November, I’m offering to translate the 10 favorite questions of the fandom which we are going to determine in this little poll.
So here’s the plan:
Step 1.) Think of a question you would like to ask Yoneda Kou.
Step 2.) Submit it to the poll by sending it as an ask to my side blog @tadayoedo-shizumazu. You can send regular asks, or anonymous ones if you’re shy, I don’t mind either way. But you have to do it in the time frame specified below.
Step 3.) I will close submissions of questions either after 4 days OR after I have received 30 different asks. Whichever comes first.
Step 4.) I will publish the asks I received (the ones that qualify according to the instructions in this post) on my side blog.
Step 5.) You can then vote for your favorite questions for one week by liking them. You may reblog the questions if you want to promote them, but only LIKES count as a vote.
Step 6.) After the end of the voting period, I will close the poll, announce the 10 winner questions and translate them into Japanese for you. I will post the translated questions on both of my blogs, so you only have to pick out the ones that you like and copy&paste them into Part 3 of the Yoneda Kou survey when you answer it.
That’s it. It works out pretty well in my head, but we’ll see how it goes. ^^;
All of the announcements will be made on my main blog @domeyashiro, so you don’t need to follow my side blog to take part in the poll. I’m just doing the technical part over there, because I would like to keep posting my regular stuff here in the meantime and don’t want to mix everything up.
Regarding the questions (just common sense stuff, but please read):
Please send every question as a seperate ask, because otherwise we can’t vote properly. You can send as many questions as you like, just do it one by one. I will delete asks that contain more than 1 question.
I will not accept questions regarding Sensei’s personal life (number of children, her age, stuff like that), because it would be a) pointless to ask them as she is a very private person, and b) considered rude. Stuff like how she likes to spend her holidays should be fine, since it’s not too personal.
I will also not accept questions about future story developments of any of her ongoing works (e.g. Will Yashiro and Doumeki have a happy ending?) because Sensei wouldn’t give out any spoilers anyway.
Lastly, and this is my personal preference, I won’t accept questions that can be answered with a simple YES or NO*, because I find them boring and just not worth the effort.
If I receive only 10 (or less) asks during the 4 days submissions period for questions, there will be no poll, and I will simply translate the questions that I got.
If I receive a question that I can answer instead of Sensei (because I’ve seen it in an interview before that I haven’t gotten round to translating yet or so), I will do just that, and post the answer on my blog.
*I will make one exception to point 4 which is whether Sensei plans to continue with Yorube Naki Mono one day. Because I love that one and am dying to know.
Submission Period for Questions (4 days, might end earlier depending on number of questions):
Start: Sunday June 11th, 4 p.m.
End: Thursday, June 15th, 4 p.m.
Time Zone: GMT / UTC
Voting Period (1 week):
Start: Thursday, June 15th, 5 p.m.
End: Thursday, June 22nd, 4 p.m.
Time Zone: GMT / UTC
I’m posting this ahead of time, so word has time to spread around the fandom. I’m also doing this for the first time, so let me know if you notice that I’m forgetting something important. LOL
I hope we can have some fun together! ^^ I’ll make the next announcement for this poll on Sunday when I open submissions!













