[ SECRET POST #372 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #372 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

EARLY BECAUSE I CAN

COMPETITION CONTINUES &rarr SEME - UKE - BADASS

Secrets Left to Post: 13 pages, 303 secrets from Secret Submission Post #054.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 (linking back to the page) ] broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Sunday, January 13th, 2008.
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: 21

[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

*puts on East Asian Studies minor with a focus in Japanenese art history hat*
*... yes, really*

While I will agree that most manga really is pop culture trash, there's so much of it that -isn't- and is at a quality level equal to the works of Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore. Ever read anything by CLAMP, to pull a name out of a hat? and I don't mean Rayeth or even X, I mean stuff like Clover.

I'm not saying it's BETTER than American works, just different, and you shouldn't dismiss the entire genre becuase 90% of it is crap. 90% of American comics are crap, doesn't stop 10% of it from being art.

Furthermore, the roots of manga can be traced back to Hokusai (he actually coined the term) who is one of the most famous Japanese artists of all time. ever seen the Great Wave? You know, that big huge Japanese wave that's in a bajillion commercials and has been parodied to death? Kinda the Mona Lisa of Japan? Yeah, that's Hokusai. And even before him, the Japanese were doing sequential storytelling pieces with art and text. The Tale of Genji, for instance, is one of the most popular examples, where fans of the work through the generations would make illustrated versions. And that's not even going into the little parody cartoons of buddhist monks as anthropomorphic animals like frogs, or how the manga "style" comes out of the old Japanese "hook for the nose, line for the eyes" style of extreme simplification of facial features.

So yeah. Manga has roots in Japanese classical art. Bitches.

Re: 21

[i-like-tuesdays.livejournal.com]

Tale of Genji! I had that in mind while posting, but I wasn't really sure how I could phrase it/what it was. Your explanation was perfect though :)

And... East Asian Studies? Really? HELLO YOU ARE MY NEW HERO.

Re: 21

[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

Well, I changed my major to English but I have enough EAS credits to be a minor.

designed it myself. the major/minor, that is.

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*head... INFLATING...*