Forum - View topicNEWS: Land of the Lustrous Manga Wins Japanese Science-Fiction Writers' Grand Prize
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kamisu66
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I hope this will instigate a Season 2 of Land of the Lustrous. But only if Orange and most of the team behind the brilliant 1st season get on board.
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Lily Garden
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As it should!
Land of the Lustrous is best and most beautiful Sci fi/ fantasy manga I have ever read. Haruko Ichikawa's use of negative and positive space is among the best if not the best in the medium. Her distinctive style is breathtaking and unlike anything else I have seen. In a genre that often wears its influences on its sleeve to create something that feels unique is an accomplishment in itself. Hopefully this award will lead to the anime getting a second season from Studio Orange (I mean Beaststars is over so they might have the time… there’s a chance, right? RIGHT!?) |
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Top Gun
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Pay. Orange. To. Make. More.
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Triltaison
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Fantastic news! The manga is a fairly recent read for me, but it rocketed up to the top of my list. It might be my favorite manga of all time now, but I'm still waiting on the final volume to come out in English. Come on, Kodansha. Give us a release date already!
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vanfanel
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Congrats to Ms. Ichikawa; I'll need to check out that series.
This prize usually goes to a novel or short story collection, but pretty much anything (films, manga, anime, and even nonfiction works) are on the table. The movie, manga, and anime winners are: 1983 - Katsuhiro Otomo, for "Domu: A Child's Dream" 1996 - Shusuke Kaneko, for "Gamera 2: Advent of Legion" 1997 - Hideaki Anno, for "Neon Genesis Evangelion" (tie) 2004 - Mamoru Oshii, for "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence" 2006 - Moto Hagio, for "Otherworld Barbara" 2008 - Mitsuo Iso, for "Dennou Coil" (tie) 2016 - Yumiko Shirai, for "WOMBS" 2021 - Fumi Yoshinaga, for "Oo'oku: The Inner Chambers" 2024 - Haruko Ichikawa, for "Land of the Lustrous" Ongoing series are generally awarded for the year they conclude. Last edited by vanfanel on Mon Feb 17, 2025 4:22 am; edited 1 time in total |
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fathomlessblue
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It's great to see the manga having a long tail & still receiving accolades like this. Plus, Kodansha's manga wing certainly seem to treat it with a lot of respect, what with all the special editions, interactive billboards and a drone show featuring Tomoyo Kurosawa performing lines from post-anime material https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFIMy02Nhoc
That sense of reverence honestly makes the lack follow up seasons in the last eight years all the more baffling. Maybe Orange has simply been booked up that many years in advance, or perhaps there's another reason why. I'd honestly love a candid answer some day. I do find it particularly interesting that the manga won a sci-fi award, given that it deliberately askews the actual science part in favor of treating its world-building with an almost mythic, & later cosmic tone, that allows focus to be placed on more humanistic character examinations, rather than detailed explanations about how the tech works, etc. As someone who's largely become exhausted by how rigidly literal both sci-f- & fantasy (inc. the gamification of isekai) has become, it's a breath of fresh air, but I do have to wonder if that approach would be widely appreciated by the types of nerds who demand the theory about how the spaceship works, etc. that make up much of western fandoms. I could see some backlash if it ever received similar attention here. |
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vanfanel
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Japanese SF does include hard SF from folks like Johji Hayashi, Akira Hori, Taiyou Fujii, and others. But there's softer, more genre-bending stuff as well. One of the winners from the 1980s, "Death Sentences" by Chiaki Kawamata (available in English), is about the French surrealist Andre Breton meeting a young Chinese poet whose writings have a way of getting into people's minds and causing strange things to happen. With its bohemian setting and premise of a "forbidden literature" that brings disaster on its readers, it reminded me of Robert Chambers' "King in Yellow" horror stories, as well as Tim Powers's "secret history" dark fantasies (since it's "filling in gaps" in the biography of a flamboyant historical figure).
In Japan, sometimes "SF" is interpreted as "Sukoshi Fushigi" ("a little strange"). Which can be a little frustrating sometimes if you're a nuts-and-bolts type who wants zero fantasy mayo on your SF sandwich. Last edited by vanfanel on Mon Feb 17, 2025 4:11 am; edited 1 time in total |
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nyaa
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I want another season-1 season wasn't enough. Considering it came out in 2017-probally won't happen,
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FishLion
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Agreed on rigidity, my favorite speculative stories feel effortless in how the story expounds wonders and doesn't feel the need to explain them. I feel like tech explanations work best when used as a piece of a puzzle but are not the entire point of the sci-fi story. I'm glad to hear others enjoy that style because I adore works like Land of the Lustrous and can only put up with a certain ratio of jargon to meaningful thematic decisions. |
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vanfanel
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I used to read Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact magazine every month, but I drifted away because so many of the stories were just about the idea. The readership was full of engineers and scientists, and the letters on their letters page were almost always responses to the editorial or science article. On the rare occasion someone did write in about a story, it was usually to point out some flaw in the author's scientific reasoning.
There's a place for hard SF. I like it myself when it's done well, but I don't think story and character can be ignored just because you got the equations to balance. They did have a change of editor several years back, though, so maybe things have improved. Their readership would rebel if the science were put in the back seat, but no one would complain about shoring up the other aspects of a good SF story. |
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