Shortforms sometimes makes me angry.

[urufudo]

I'd just like to take the moment to say how much I really, really hate the term "animanga". -_- Is it really that hard to write "anime/manga" or "anime and manga"? I don't know why it bothers me so much, I really don't. "Chara" also bothers me for some reason. ._.

I AM PERTURBED BY SPECIFIC SHORTFORMS. ;_; RAGE.

Comments

[commanderteddog]

I thought that animanga was a name for those silly comics that took screencaps from a series and made them into a comic. You know, a really cheap cash-in?

[urufudo]

Oh, yeah. :D I dunno why they don't just say "film book" like they do in Japan since that's pretty much where they got the idea from. :/ IT STILL ANGERS ME REGARDLESS. 8[

It also kinda makes me mad because the film books they release here suck in comparison to the ones they release in Japan, from what I've seen. XD I should flip through an Inuyasha one and see what it's like. Maybe they got better?

[commanderteddog]

What I've been trying to remember is what the old English term is for that format. o_O

I know that the current wave of books is based on the Japanese film books, but the format did exist over here in the late 70s/early 80s for comics based on movies. I remember seeing an really old movie-screenshot-comic tie-in from that era in the storeroom of my high school library. This was back in 1997. For the life of me, I don't remember what movie it was.

[yachiru]

I hate the term too. 'Course it's better than japanimation.

[urufudo]

OH GOD. Japanimation? Welcome to frigging 1992. >___<;;;