[ SECRET POST #211 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #211 ⌋

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

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Comments

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

4. Manga has a distinctly different style from American comics. They may mean the same thing, but they're not interchangeable as styles. Compare Superman to Fushigi Yuugi-you won't find flower petals and gauzy hearts in the former. :P

Also? You're not the boss of who gets to call their graphic storytelling what. If an American living in America draws in manga-style and calls it manga, they have the fucking right to call it manga. The end.

10. Subtext is fun, but I can never see Flanders as gay. It goes against his whole fanatical squeaky-clean shtick. XD

11. Word. I hate "TRUE FANS OMG WE'VE BEEN AROUND LONGER ALL N00BS ARE FUCKTARDS" elitists in any fandom.

15. Ugh. People like that need to be kicked in the face. I'm sorry your life's such a mess.

[shahrizai.livejournal.com]

4. Yeah, but Ghost in the Shell and Berserk are much more similar to American comics than to Fushigi Yuugi. Manga is not an art style, it is a word describing the country of origin of a comic. Fushigi Yuugi's style is shoujo.

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

Point taken. Also, I forgot about Astroboy.

I still stand by my "SP is not the terminology police" comment though. :P

[emileesaurus]

4. I'm not sure that "American comics" have a style, per se. Sure, there are overall unifying artistic themes found in genres like superhero comics, just like you'll find the same themes in a good deal of shoujo romance manga, but there are many, many different genres of each. One Piece and Dragonball, for example, are much closer to what I would think of as a traditionally American style of cartooning/comics, but they're still very much manga.

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

...again, point taken. >.> See, whenever I think of American comics I think of Marvel and newspaper funnies.

[emileesaurus]

Unfortunately, so do most people. The US comics market doesn't have as many really mainstream genres as Japan does. :/

But anyway, the US borrows a lot from Japan as far as art is concerned, and vice versa. It's nice! It makes for wonderful art on both sides. I'm all for drawing inspiration from wherever one finds it, but I only wish there wasn't such a stigma on the word comics.

[nighteevee.livejournal.com]

Comics are not an eclusively American medium. I can guarantee you that you won't find a lot of men in skin-tight body suits in the mainstream European (by which I mean oldskool French-Belgian) comics either. If the art defines the distinction between manga and other comics, Miyazaki's work certainly don't qualify *g*