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kamidai
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There are no words for how much I want this magazine. 
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s.alsa-man1991
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You guys need to read Manly Guys Doing Manly Things. In fact, everyone should. Now. I don't think my pile of shame is particularly big. My videogame one, on the other hand, is enormous. I grossly underestimated first year in college's ability to suck all my time. |
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Gasero
 Posts: 939 Location: USA |
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I felt bad watching fansubs of Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece.
But then Viz and Funimation started releasing the official subs and I fully support them now. Thanks Crunchyroll, Hulu, internet, and new media. |
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Youkai Warrior
 Posts: 505 Location: Sarayashiki |
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Brian, you give some good answers, you really do, but I have to disagree with you on one thing: There is lack of creativity is some mediums. I've seen it. Every medium is going to have their small pile of rubbish. Besides that, again, you do give good answers.
That flake of the week would make a good, crazy anime rap song. I'd say someone should perform it at a convention, but I don't know if they were condemning anime, or if they were praising it or just simply rapping about it? |
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Zade
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Hmm... I can't help but disagree with you Answerman. I don't know whether you really meant that, but I don't believe a person's ability to be "creative" (to create good stories/plots/ideas) has anything to do with their ability to write good. To be honest, it sounds like your just advocating style over substance.
This seems like sophistry. Seriously, just how good do you believe someone could make "two characters at a table for ten pages?" While, sure, someone could make that entertaining, do you really think they could make it, you know, unique or impressive? It'd still be generic in my book. Yet you advocate and practice refining your work. Which means you recognize writing stuff to write makes it generic... So I don't understand... Seriously though, assuming you can't pick both, which 1 do you think is better? Continually presenting new content? Or making something great? Or alternatively style or substance? Last edited by Zade on Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:15 am; edited 6 times in total |
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rockman nes
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I know he didn't mean it that seriously, but this is the first thing that came to mind when he said that.. |
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Imperial_Commander
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lol I love blowshimselfupdude! I wonder if he posts here, he seems like that kind of person (not meant as an insult!) |
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eyevocal
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Erm...Trapeze does occasionally have boobs. To be precise, they can't show the nurse Mayumi (made with real footage of the idol Yumi Sugimoto) without at least one look at her cleavage. Her chest may be realistically sized and not made of water balloons, but service is service.
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enurtsol
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Even within the animation industry, the saying goes like "your first 10,000 drawings will be crap, so might as well get 'em out of the way" (meaning keep drawing, and then draw some more). The more you do something, you become more and more polished and grind the rough edges.
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Zade
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You know, the most damning thing about me believing in quality over quantity is that, even in practice, I'm probably wrong:
http://www.cracked.com/article_17221_6-writers-who-accidentally-crapped-out-masterpieces.html |
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Vapors
 Posts: 139 Location: Bay Area |
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Don't be too impressed. The flake simply lifted DMX's "Where the Hood At" and placed in anime here and there. Seriously, he didn't even bother to rewrite some of the lines to match any anime theme or mention any characters or shows, just the word anime. It's a simple copy and paste. Lazy! |
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Spinal Cord Fluid-kun
 Posts: 36 Location: Mainframe |
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I'll start to feel bad about reading scanlations when they start publishing stuff I like (crazy dark f***** up s***), The whole viz+ikki thing was such a disappointment (RIP Pulp), The closest I can get is the stuff by D&Q and Vertical, I really hope Velveteen & Mandala does well for them but I fear the average mango consumer will be too close minded to even give it a look.
Lol. 
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CG-LOVER
 Posts: 355 Location: East Lansing, MI |
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Hmmm, I'm not so sure about the Answerman's answer to the scanlation question. I think that it it isn't licensed and you read scanlations then I guess you could get away with it. But if you like it and it does become available here then I don't see why you shouldn't buy it. Now if you thought it was a piece of sh*t and you hated it then there may be some room for debate there.
My oh my what a perfect Answerman question, because I just bought two titles specifically because they were in my pile of shame! They are Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Akira, the two titles where everyone says if you haven't watched these you're somehow not a true anime fan. If anything I bought these to shut them up. A couple of other titles in that list are S-Cry-Ed and Ghost in the Shell. |
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sirkoala13
 Posts: 134 Location: Muscle Tower, U.S. |
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Would the answerfans question include anime we've seen very little of and haven't gotten around to? I've done that alot, a perfect example of this would be Durarara. I can;t remember that well, but I think I saw the first episode sometime in the early summer, and I'm still only saw up to the 8th ep.
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Maigraith
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Both substance and style are important in writing. It doesn't matter if you have the greatest story ever, if what you write reads like crap no one will want to read it and it will quickly sink to the bottom.
...you haven't read many of Asimov's short stories have you? or any good short stories in general? |
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