i mean, the japanese were influenced by american animation and comics. a lot! and it's totally cool that inspiration goes back and forth. but they have their own kind of style. inspiration, not copying. it's the type of storytelling, in many cases, that make manga different from american comics. changing the art style is just an art style. if i don't like a story, i don't care how pretty the art is. :P
I know. I'm all for getting inspiration, but these kinds of things reek of "Well that manga thing is pretty popular these days. Guess we'll have someone who doesn't draw very well in that style make a comic in that style so we can sell stuff."
Most Amerimanga try to unsuccessfully ape the visual style, but not the narrative style, which really differs much more than the art. I've seen these Shakespearean manga things before, and I was amused/appalled: they're simultaneously trying to cash in on preteens who can't get enough of them 'Japanimation comical books' and on preteens who don't really like that 'reading' thing very much. I suspect that it is not the attempt to cash in that bothers me so much as the reminder that the latter demographic exists.
That having been said, I feel that this is the definitive comic version of Romeo and Juliet.
I am glad someone else feels this way. It's why I cringe when I see American cartoons trying to be anime. Not because I dislike anime, I rather enjoy the good ones, but because- like how I enjoy the anime style, I also like American cartoon styles! I can't stand when people confuse a style for popularity. The vast majority of the time, people like anime shows for their stories. Not because they have big eyes and go: WAI WAI WAI KAWAII.
It's like with computer animation. Pixar has a handful of hits and Disney was all: IT'S THE 3-D and threw away their 2-D studio. No, it's because Pixar can tell a coherent story, Atlantis.
And Hamlet was an overweight, perpetual grad student. Get it right, people.
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i mean, the japanese were influenced by american animation and comics. a lot! and it's totally cool that inspiration goes back and forth. but they have their own kind of style. inspiration, not copying.
it's the type of storytelling, in many cases, that make manga different from american comics. changing the art style is just an art style. if i don't like a story, i don't care how pretty the art is. :P
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they don't even color it JAP-STYLE. make up your mind, guys.
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That having been said, I feel that this is the definitive comic version of Romeo and Juliet.
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It's like with computer animation. Pixar has a handful of hits and Disney was all: IT'S THE 3-D and threw away their 2-D studio. No, it's because Pixar can tell a coherent story, Atlantis.
And Hamlet was an overweight, perpetual grad student. Get it right, people.
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