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britannicamoore/Cowboy Cadenza/Zac:

Good God...Save it for the next Nymphet thread would ya?

I know they reeeeaallly push that Princess Ai. Is it as big a hit as they make it out to be?

britannicamoore -

It's perfectly okay for somebody to write about whatever subject they like, from whatever standpoint they like.
But it's just as okay (and just as necessary for free speech) for others to be able to freely express criticism of - or outrage at - those words, to be able to persuade others of their viewpoint and to call into question the morality, ethics, intelligence or insight of the author.

You seem to want artists to have complete freedom of expression but to deny that freedom to their readers.

I think the flake should watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VjSfnhCNm8
Note: There is no copyrighted content in this video, it's a video of Crispin Freeman explaining Alucard to a fan with the same opinion as the flake.

There's a wonderful quality to badness, and I don't think TP would be the same for me without DJ Milky. It's all part of their crazy "Let's try this!" mentality that has resulted ina lot of good thing, and a lot of things that most people have forgotten about after the experiment failed It keeps things interesting. Plus, Princess Ai-money from books and merchandise means TP can experiment elsewhere like those nice Twelve Kingdoms novels, pushing out more Slayers novels, the occasional 70's or 60's manga like Lupin, and trying out some quirkier OEL books. Just like Naruto [which is obviously a way bigger cash cow mind you] for VIZ.

In summary, while I argue about OEL manga not being actual manga, I am not against it. It's American comics by new creators. I'm happy to see that. I just hate that the company and even fans think it needs to be called by a Japanese name to be accepted. That disgusts me. That in order to sell American comics in America, you need to call them by a Japanese name.

Speaking of which, I actually do have a problem with a good deal of the fan base, notably for manga and American 'manga'. This mentality that anything Japanese beats anything American and for something American to be good it has to imitate Japan is just sick. It's delusional and plain not healthy.

It's weird how this all started. All I did was mention to the person who wrote about Dramacon did they realize that actions expressed by fictional charcters in a ficitional world were not on par with what real people do.

Speaking of which, I actually do have a problem with a good deal of the fan base, notably for manga and American 'manga'. This mentality that anything Japanese beats anything American and for something American to be good it has to imitate Japan is just sick. It's delusional and plain not healthy.

I was in a thread about Rob Liefeld the other day and someone said they feared for the generation of kids raised on that. I said they're old hat, the 90s Image craze is over. Now we have a generation wanting to make manga and turn Japanese.

Well, if you want to breathe some kind of sigh of relief -- they're all sold under "Graphic Novel" within retail bookstores. It completely eliminates the "Japanese" vs "American" mentality as it allows them to sell the "two" types of products side-by-side.

Unfortunately, "quality" did play a factor in determining a "manga" vs a "non-manga" -- as noted by the lesser degree of anti-OEL material. Nice to know that some fans are giving the domestic stuff some attention.

britannicamoore wrote:

It's weird how this all started. All I did was mention to the person who wrote about Dramacon did they realize that actions expressed by fictional charcters in a ficitional world were not on par with what real people do.

Yet, the real world has this uncanny way of providing story ideas -- particularly anything involving drama. Often times, it's rather difficult to get an idea without some kind of real world example.

I agree with most of what was said about Evangelion and its popularity. I still mantain that Evangelion is one of the finer series of its genre and it's clear that the detractors are such a loud group of obnoxious meme spouters, each claiming "I've read somewhere that all the Evangelion symbolism was just there because it looks cool and is completely meaningless"

Awww. Kitty!
It's not the heat! Kitty has the spirit of Christmas & wants to decorate.

I always suspected TP pushes OEL because they're the original contractor & it's cheaper to license (contract with what often seems to be new artists) than licensing the existing Japanese stuff.

I don't doubt someone who hates Gravitation would also hate Bobobo & I'd suspect they'd also dislike Excel Saga & Dr Slump. All these titles have a huge random factor. I mean, a manager who wakes his star up with a gun? Panda Mech? I loved it. Same for Bobobo--the school of Airplane--throw everything at the viewer/reader to see what takes. It's not for everyone.

ikillchicken wrote:

britannicamoore/Cowboy Cadenza/Zac: Good God...Save it for the next Nymphet thread would ya?

Oh, get over yourself. Sorry the discussion is not to your exact liking, your highness.

It's probably why Bandai Entertainment gets away with such terrible R1 releases, like their release of Zeta Gundam.

penguintruth wrote:

I agree with most of what was said about Evangelion and its popularity. I still mantain that Evangelion is one of the finer series of its genre and it's clear that the detractors are such a loud group of obnoxious meme spouters, each claiming "I've read somewhere that all the Evangelion symbolism was just there because it looks cool and is completely meaningless"

Don't feel like putting my entire two cents in on eva but this kind of made me laugh. Most people who say that are probably talking about this quote (I copied it off of http://www.evaotaku.com/html/evafaq.html since it's the first place I could quickly find it):

Tsurumaki: There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool. If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice.

There you go, right from the mouth of the assistant director.

It was just because they thought it was cool and umm....yeah it is pretty much meaningless >.>

Now I can't say I hate eva, but when they just slap on a shallow meaningless theme, it doesn't work and they never actually meant to take it seriously in the first place; that just makes it hard for me to the show seriously.