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Super Rats · Power Level: Recoome Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 204

It would still be people who don't normally visit there influencing the outcome.

adam_omega · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject:

ActionJackal! · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject:

That discussion makes me sick. "OMG ITS NOT MANGA IF IT DOESENT COME FROM JAPAN (unless it comes from korea or china) AND IF ITS NOT MANGA IA M NOT INTERESTED IN UR CRAPY AMERICA COMIZX!!!1"

I guess it wouldn't be an anime board without a zillion stupid semantics debates, though.
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Captain · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:13 pm Post subject:

Pseudome · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:22 pm Post subject:

I can only imagine, that as American manga (ooo, I bet I pissed off some otaku somewhere with that term) is released in more copious amounts, the general public will eventually become oblivious to a title's origins. Or better yet, simply indifferent.

There will always, ALWAYS be purists who will decry anything that is a derivative of the original. Kinda like how some people who are totally into American animation decry Japanese animation because it's a derivative of American animation. Hmm...Looks like this whole argument is just one of those big, vicious cycle thinggies, isn't it? How moronic. Er, I mean, ironic. Er, maybe I was right the first time. Wink

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Patachu · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject:

Silly Americans, mangas are for Japanese!

IronMouse · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject:

Perhaps the reason why they've resisted having a thread on American manga is that there are still alot of fans out there who harbour prejudice towards American manga. They may not be prejudiced against manwha or manhua, but they just believe that American popular culture is inferior. And let's face it, alot of big anime-watchers watch anime because of the exotic "otherness" or it, rather than looking for something to identify with.

And even if American manga succeeds, it still remains to be seen whether people will be willing to lump it into the same category as Asia-made manga. After all, American manga so far has shown it self to be so different that it probably belongs in a category of it's own.

And I think it's so ironic that the manga by Seven Seas are drawn by Filapinos, which would qualify as "Asian" manga. And yet because their target market is America, they're lumped into the "Americna manga" category. Oi.

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crispy · Power Level: King Cold Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 1479

I think we should just call it Amalgamanga , cause it's basically all an amalgamation of the cultures of where the various artists are from.

Pseudome · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

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LynxGriffin · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject:

Bonus points if you can say it five times fast! Laughing

...Actually, I just tried it, and it's easier to say "Amalgamanga" than it is "Amerimanga" Confused

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Rivkah · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:08 am Post subject:

pushav · Power Level: Nappa Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Posts: 35

Have you guys noticed this trend?.........

the funny thing is that you have people who don't like american manga but the draw in the manga style hoping to get published thinking that it will be popular but their property will get diliked by someone else who has the same dreams and comic values who only likes manga from overseas. I find it ironic.

What goes around comes around.

Super Rats · Power Level: Recoome Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 204

No. Why would someone who aspires to make American manga dispise the idea of American manga? Unless of course they haven't had their daily handful of meds.

Super Rats · Power Level: Recoome Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 204

I like the sound of "kokusai" myself, but personally, I don't see the need to call my manga influenced comics anything other than "comic" or manga-comic, whatever. Fans are always going to want to make distinctions on whatever, e.g., Hollywood, Indie, Italian cinema, French cinema. There's no real way of getting around that habit of fandom, which is why as stupid as it is a debate over semantics it isn't semantics for many potential customers who for better or worse, valid or invalid reasons, calling an American comic a manga (without any qualifiers or modifiers) rings false.

Trying to force fandom into accepting American made stuff can be called manga is like trying to get someone who doesn't like you to like you. I think one thing American manga needs to do before it takes flight is to drop this whole what is manga debate by just not flat-out calling itself manga.