In the category of "This makes Mugen's head hurt"...

[telophase]

Apparently Japanese manga will never make it big in America because Americans don't eat rice, among other things.

I think my favorite bit is where he says that Americans don't like teenage angst. Now, please excuse me. I have to go eat sushi while reading Judy Blume and Sweet Valley High.

Comments

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I'm not positive, but I'm under the impression Piro only calls MegaTokyo "manga-influenced," which I think is valid and not overly pretentious. But calling someone's comic book American Manga just makes me want to smite people with those hardback archive volumes of The Spirit. (Or maybe the insanely overpriced hardback reprints of Elfquest that I can't afford.)

I kinda hate movie picture books on principle. I hate novelizations of movies because they're usually written very simplistically, and they're blatently commercial. Cine-books are even more half-assed. If it's a movie, let it be a movie. If it's a book or a comic book, let it be that. If you're going to adapt from one format to another, by god, adapt, don't just cut-and-paste stills. Marketing synergy annoys Jesus.

[obviouslyanon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's true. But compared to the cine-manga, the American manga-influenced stuff isn't as bad. It doesn't make me want to permanently forget it and pretend it never existed I agree with all bad things said about cine-manga.

The article compared it to the popularity of Furuba (which I did buy :D) and used the words " American-born shojo talent" and " manga-style book". I personally don't care about the labels they use, but I dug it out of my old pile of Time stuff to make sure before you go killing the poor editors at time with heavy books.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

But calling someone's comic book American Manga just makes me want to smite people with those hardback archive volumes of The Spirit.
WORD.