Forum - View topicNEWS: Harvey Awards Induct Manga Creator Rumiko Takahashi Into Hall of Fame
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MFrontier
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Congratulations!
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dm
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This is one of those news stories where my reaction is "You mean they didn't do this years ago?"
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Fluwm
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Um... wow. That's pretty overdue.
I can only imagine she's one of the first manga artists they've inducted, otherwise... oof. |
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MagicPolly
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I think that might be the case, I can't find a full list of their hall of fame anywhere but Tezuka was only inducted last year. I've never read any of her works, but on reputation alone I know she more than deserves this. |
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Dayraven
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The current Hall of Fame award list is here. If’s been run since 2017:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Harvey_Award_winners#Harvey_Awards_Hall_of_Fame Replacing an older one which ran 1989-2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Harvey_Award_winners#The_Jack_Kirby_Hall_of_Fame That one seems to have been heavily US comic book focused, and mostly awarding 1940s-1960s founder figures. |
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Apterous
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What... what is this list? It seems they have no idea what "mangas" are, but at least with Rumiko Takahashi it seems they're trying to catch up. |
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RockSplash
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I don't understand your problem. Lesbian Experiance is a personal manga about social issues and stigma, MHA is THE hot manga right now, as well as being very good and a love letter(and criticism) of comics, and Atelier...I have never read it, so it seems fine. These all seem like real manga. |
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Saiphaz
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I'd argue that the issue here is that those choices are rather arbitrary. Yes, Lesbian Experience is a manga about social issues and stigma, but by no means it's the only one, let alone the best. If there's anything that Japan is good at, is at tackling social issues like bullying, inadequacy, society rejects and crushing expectations from family and society at large. MHA is THE hot manga, whatever you mean by that, but if popularity alone was enough to get you there, why wasn't Kimetsu no Yaiba, a bigger "THE hot manga" than MHA given how badly it crushed the big manga of SJ in 2020, not there? A prize is something you give to outstanding works of the genre. Just being manga doesn't cut it. And you don't even know the last one, which should tell you a bit about how weird the choices here are. I've read Atelier, a fine little manga and one I quite enjoy reading, yes, but nothing that out of the ordinary. As you can see, neither popularity, nor quality seem to be the metrics for this award. Then what is? Don't misunderstand, I've grown up with Takahashi's works, and I completely understand why she deserves recognition for her works, given that she's the most prominent mangaka of Japan, second probably to only the god of manga Ozamu Tezuka himself. Her defining manga are legendary, having shaped entire genres for generations to come, pretty much every work of hers has a sizable following, and she has dabbled successfully in many genres, from romance, comedy, shounen, sports, mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc, which is something that even the authors of multimillionaire shounen hits like Naruto, Bleach or even Dragon Ball only wish they could say. Moreover she has true passion for the craft, still penning manga despite her age and the fact that she has enough money to live three lifetimes in luxury without having to lift a finger, while other mangaka haven't touched their "ongoing" series in years. This is why I find her being awarded with this prize baffling, given that the selection criteria are weird. Is she being awarded for her outstanding professional trajectory? Is she being awarded for her last couple of series, which have enjoyed only moderate success? For the Inuyasha sequel? Or is she being awarded because they want to start giving manga prizes and her name was the first that came in Google when they searched for "popular mangaka"? Because that, among other rather more dubious reasons, would only be an insult to her and her fans. |
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mrmoviemanic1
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Such a well-deserved honor, this woman is responsible for so much joy in my childhood.
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Dayraven
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Most of the US awards are clearly lifetime awards (many going to people who were inactive by that point), rather than what-have-you-done-for-me-lately ones, so I’d assume Takahashi’s is the same. |
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