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So Nick Simmons released a statement about his plagiarism charges saying, in effect, that it was a homage, he's sorry we're offended, and all manga looks the same anyway.
And then there were (trolling) comments about how he's right, manga does all look the same, what's the problem and I had some kind of fannish!rage blackout, fired up google images, and started planning a really epic rage!post about how manga is not a genre, you can't lump an entire country's creative sequential-art output together like that, and all manga doesn't look the same, dammit.
That was 24 hours ago. I'm feeling much better.
But now I've got these nicely edited images so you're still getting the picspam.
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And that's mostly really mainstream stuff, you know? And I barely tapped that, never mind most children's manga, salaryman manga, josei manga, horror manga, historical manga, hentai, boyslove, biographical manga, and the underground stuff. Plus it's pretty light on the shojo, really. And it's all Japanese, never mind the work coming out of South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Indonesia, etc that also gets tagged (from the outside) as 'manga'.
And it's mostly (color) cover art, not the even more diverse interior b&w art.
Mostly (how many times can I use that word?), this exercise has served to remind me that I've totally got the figure based on that picture of Seres, I should figure out which box she's in and get her out. And I forgot how much I liked One Piece (which is hilarious, considering most of the crew watches me while I sleep). And I still have that ridiculous crush on Usopp (why?).
The images are pretty big and my layout doesn't really support that, so here's the format=light version
So this post isn't completely ridiculous, here. Have some links:
The Face of the Other by Mark Thorn
Are Anime Characters Caucasian or Japanese? on Youtube
Naruto 10th Anniversary Tribute Drawn by Other Popular Manga Artists | Holy heck it's been 10 years. I started reading Naruto when I was 15 and the first, like, 20 chapters were all that was up on Toriyama's World. Yikes.
Also, a signal boost: PSA: "Can I talk to you?" troll
And then there were (trolling) comments about how he's right, manga does all look the same, what's the problem and I had some kind of fannish!rage blackout, fired up google images, and started planning a really epic rage!post about how manga is not a genre, you can't lump an entire country's creative sequential-art output together like that, and all manga doesn't look the same, dammit.
That was 24 hours ago. I'm feeling much better.
But now I've got these nicely edited images so you're still getting the picspam.
~
And that's mostly really mainstream stuff, you know? And I barely tapped that, never mind most children's manga, salaryman manga, josei manga, horror manga, historical manga, hentai, boyslove, biographical manga, and the underground stuff. Plus it's pretty light on the shojo, really. And it's all Japanese, never mind the work coming out of South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Indonesia, etc that also gets tagged (from the outside) as 'manga'.
And it's mostly (color) cover art, not the even more diverse interior b&w art.
Mostly (how many times can I use that word?), this exercise has served to remind me that I've totally got the figure based on that picture of Seres, I should figure out which box she's in and get her out. And I forgot how much I liked One Piece (which is hilarious, considering most of the crew watches me while I sleep). And I still have that ridiculous crush on Usopp (why?).
The images are pretty big and my layout doesn't really support that, so here's the format=light version
So this post isn't completely ridiculous, here. Have some links:
The Face of the Other by Mark Thorn
Are Anime Characters Caucasian or Japanese? on Youtube
Naruto 10th Anniversary Tribute Drawn by Other Popular Manga Artists | Holy heck it's been 10 years. I started reading Naruto when I was 15 and the first, like, 20 chapters were all that was up on Toriyama's World. Yikes.
Also, a signal boost: PSA: "Can I talk to you?" troll
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I grabbed Genshiken off the shelf last night and started reading - perhaps not the best choice. The Shibuya craving is pretty intense.
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I grabbed Bleach, but when I read that I always get inspired to re-watch Prince of Tennis, which is a *bad* idea. ^^
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Which I do recommend by the way, in case you haven't read it yet. More the manga than the anime, but that is cool, too.
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Lolol curling icon ftw!
Al;dkgadgja I always get these random urges to rant about certain scenes. Like when they were doing the death march, and Hiruma pretended to be perfectly fine! Or the game against the Nagas!
I'm such a sucker for Crowning Moments of Glory (TM TVTropes), and IC21 is chock-full of them.
... great, now I've talked myself into re-reading it.
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...me too.
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Hiruma! Habashira Rui! Takami! Kid!
How up-to-date are you? The last thing I read was the game against the Nagas.
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EDIT: There's also the Manga Fox page.
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[Btw, they totally flagged the blog entry that I ranted about earlier!
3/4 of an hour after I commented with the link to my entry, the same admin having already commented without doing anything?
I think it's time for a "Bazinga!"]
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