Re: [News] Japan's New Export

"Peter Van Huffel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Fata Morgana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> > "S.t.A.n.L.e.E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> To call manga 'Japanese comics' is like calling a painting
> >> by Michelangelo a picture.  Both are true statements and both
> >> are utterly insufficient and degrading.
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> > Pshaw.  There's nothing insignificant or degrading about the word
'comic.'
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> > Fata Morgana
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> Please *read* the original statement, before replying in such a way.
> Nowhere has been said that "comic" is degrading or insignificant. The word
> "insignificant" does not even appear in the statement. Read the text
> carefully, there's not a single negative comment on "comic".

>>>To call manga 'Japanese comics' is like calling a painting
>>>by Michelangelo a picture.  Both are true statements and both
>>>are utterly insufficient and degrading.

Seems pretty negative toward comics to me.

>> Why do you think this group is called rec.arts.MANGA instead of
>> rec.arts.comics.japan?
>>
>> I'll give you a hint: it's not because we think "comics" as a word or as
a
>> genre are insignificant.

Same reason why this newsgroup is called rec.arts.ANIME.misc instead of
rec.arts.cartoons.japan or rec.arts.animation.japan. Of course we are not
going to be foolish enough to say that discribing anime as Japanese cartoons
or animation, as "utterly insufficient and degrading."

Farix




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