I like manga and anime and I have no racial prejudice against Japan, but there is one thing that pisses me off about them: their manga monopoly. It's rather stupid if you ask me that only Japanese can make manga. I know, it's part of their culture, but you certainly don't see Americans holding a monopoly on rap (it occurs in many places outside the US now).
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Anonymous2005-07-29 6:03
2GET
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Anonymous2005-07-29 14:31
LOL at ignorance of the European Comics scene.
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Loiluipesisoa2005-07-29 14:50
I'm not talking about European comics. I'm talking about manga. Are you saying that the Europeans have found a way to make manga? If so, then by all means, tell me about it.
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Anonymous2005-07-29 17:40
fuck manga
french comics >>>>>>>> manga
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Anonymous2005-07-30 7:55
Like hell if I'm going to read garbage designed by White people to cash in on the Anime trend. East Asians are taught a secret technique to draw manga- it's always painfully apparent when a given piece of fanart was drawn by some White person.
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Anonymous2005-07-30 21:50
there's no monopoly. no one is stopping a white person from drawing like a japanese person. japanese style comics is more localized to japan. where as exposure to rap is worldwide.
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Anonymous2005-07-31 0:54
Korea and China/HK have comics that you can say are about the same style of manga. Asia local comics in general I find to have the same style as manga.
The problem with the western comics that try to do manga is that they try to kill off all the culture in it and just take the style. That is where it goes totally off.
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Anonymous2005-07-31 1:52
So in the end, it's the culture that matters not the style. US culture is inferior.
American 'artists' suck at manga. Dreamwave/ Pat Lee is crap with their so called manga style. Only Adam Warren and Joe Madureira are for teh win.
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Anonymous2005-08-01 11:14
Manga is just the japanese word for comics. We have plenty of those here. If you mean style, a number of comic book artists do manga-similar works. Just like every other artist, most of them suck no matter how good they think they are. But, you do get a few gems here and there. Of course, some japanese comic artists suck, too....
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Anonymous2005-08-01 15:10
Whats worse is Japanese comic artist trying to imitate US comis style
I would say it does. What culture would you say the US belongs to if it doesn't?
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Anonymous2005-08-02 23:02
oh noes racism
stop jap
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4koma2005-08-02 23:54
It's all in your mindset. It's not like they're the only ones who can write a good story, or use good (or even manga-styled) art. Look at manwha, it's the Korean equivalent of manga. The Japanese can never make manwha any more than a Korean or American could make manga. It's simply that way because... their comics are so distinct from ours that we use their term for them. To apply the "manga" label to non-Japanese comics would be like calling "comics" conspicuously by their German name for no reason. It's just that Americans are starting to see manga as some kind of brand. It's not a monopoly, it's a definition.
American comics are no more manga than a random American is Japanese. It's not a monopoly, it's a simple observation.
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Anonymous2005-08-03 14:58
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Watered down, greased up Western European culture.
Take UK, Spain, or Germany. Remove valuable cultural elements and monuments. Add McDonalds.
So what would happen if an American who happened to be a very good artist and writer made a work in the style of manga and probably better than many Japanese manga and they decided to call it manga? Would it simply fail to be manga? Who decides what counts as manga?
So what would happen if an American who happened to be a very good artist and writer made a work in the style of manga and probably better than many Japanese manga and they decided to call it manga? Would it simply fail to be manga? Who decides what counts as manga?
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Anonymous2005-08-05 0:01
isn't Megatokyo called a manga?
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Loiluipesisoa2005-08-06 13:27
I've heard it described as such, though I'm not really sure if it generally accepted as a manga or whether it's just a few people calling it one.
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Anonymous2005-08-07 6:20 (sage)
"Manga" is just a word. Whether you call a non-japanese comic "Manga" aswell or not neither changes the art nor the plot.
Oh wow, I thought you meant Monopoly with manga at first and it confused the shit outta me. I gotta get out more.
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Anonymous2005-08-15 2:42
Manga monopoly: You landed on evangelion, do not pass Go, do not collect 200 gil
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Anonymous2005-08-24 21:27
Unless a american was raised in japan (which he wouldent be american) there is no way in hell the best drawer in USA could imitate Manga. The drawing yes, but never the writing.
Indeed, Japanese culture is one of the reasons why manga is so different. Although 'manga' is just the Japanese word for 'comics', it's so different from what we call 'comics' that it justifies using a whole other word. That's why Japan has a monopoly on manga, because nobody can do Japanese graphic novels quite like the Japanese.
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Anonymous2005-08-27 19:31
Even if the US was able to copy the manga style they can never copy the manga variety.
Can you find a US comic that deals with medical doctors? Bakers? How about a nightclub? None of the US comic publishers would never consider a comic series about those situations AT all.
Not to mention accuracy in the manga. IE Yakitate. Eventhough some of the things are over the top in that series, the author made a tremendous effort to make sure the terminology and use are accurate to the baking bread world. Can you find such a thing in a US comic series?
Shut the fuck up asstard, you know NOTHING about the Japanese manga industry, so to hell with you!
btw post this shit in the anime/manga boards DIPSHIT
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Chris Logan Hanssen2007-10-07 22:17
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Most commonly, it describes incorrect, misleading, false language and statements. Literally, it describes the feces of a bull. As with many expletives, it can be used as an interjection (or in many other parts of speech) and can carry a wide variety of meanings.
Bullshitting is usually when one makes statements that are false, or made-up. Usually people describe other people's action of making a lot of statements as bullshitting in arguments, when one is making up rules or making examples that are not anything to do with what they are discussing or when one is making statements by using examples that need different rules to be applied, so this person is bullshitting
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