Re: [News] Japan's New Export

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, paranormalized wrote:

> On 1 Dec 2003 11:24:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Dubin)
> wrote:
>
> >"S.t.A.n.L.e.E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >> http://www.ikjeld.com/weekly/manga/
> *snip snip*
> >> 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.  Unlike Western comics,
> >> Japanese manga have a history that stretch back many hundreds
> >> of years.
> *snip snip*
>
> >Comics in their modern form were created in America.  Do ancient
> >Japanese scrolls actually look like comics?  What were they used for?
> >Martial arts?  Instructions for Tea Ceremonies and such?  I find it
> >hard to believe anything in this article at face value.
> >
> As a form of media, or as an artistic style?  If the former, you may
> be partially right, but even then, Manga is published in a distinctly
> different format: the insanely huge newsprint weeklies/monthlies, with
> the collected edition format months later.

... ancient Japanese scrolls/woodprints were often pillow books... i.e.
the same kind of entertainment that hentai manga/doujinshi have.

For what is is worth, it would be quite a stretch to look at a
lolicon/shoutacon hentai manga and call anything in it remotely resembling
Japanese art of the feudal era.

aFaics, most manga is drawn in a far less realistic way, and the
exaggerations are, well, different.  back then the japanese liked much fur
and oversized genitals (sometimes dwarfing the person himself).  current
hentai bears much more resemblance to the David (lessening of body hair,
minimization of genitals)

my two cents.

Lena