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.

I misread the word "insufficient", but the word "degrading" does indeed
appear in the statement.  Which is all beside the point - it's still
pretentious to think that Japanese comics are somehow ultimately so superior
to American ones that they need an entirely new word to describe them.  The
ONLY reason I use the word manga in place of 'Japanese comic' is that it's
more terse.

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> I'll give you a hint: it's not because we think "comics" as a word or as a
> genre are insignificant.
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How old are you?  As I said before, there's nothing degrading or
insufficient about the word "comic."  To demand that we don't call them
comics is like demanding that we come up with a new word for "film" in
reference to Japanese cinema, since "Seven Samurai" and "Ran" are obviously
*so much more* than films.   By saying that, you're basically ignoring all
the American comics that are superior to the dreck surrounding them.  More
importantly, you're ignoring the exceedlingly high amount of manga that is
pure dreck.  Most manga sucks ass; as do most American comics.  Remember
Sturgeon's Law.

Fata Morgana
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