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• Message 1. Posted by Gekidou (U14218272) on Sunday, 15th November 2009 permalink

  through out my entire school, there must be what one or two people who like anime and manga, and everytime some one else sees it they basically shudder at the thought of it? I personally think its a beautiful art form with the fact you can do so much with it comedy, romance, horror. So why is it that so many people don't like it? what do you all think?

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• Message 2. Posted by Tuesday (U14003517) on Tuesday, 17th November 2009 permalink

  I quite like it... Some of it. I'm not keen on the more typical huge-eyed style that all looks the same. But there is plenty of manga out there with much prettier, different looking art. I think the reason people dislike it so much is it's (mostly) unoriginal and ridiculously popular. There are so many people out there who just draw in manga style and don't do anything different. So for other artists it gets frustrating seeing that a piece they've spent hours and hours on doesn't get any attention whatsoever, while a two-minute scribble of an anime girl gets twenty comments and faves. Not to mention people get sick of seeing the same picture over and over again. .
  Another problem is (and I did this myself), wannabe manga artists usually end up skipping learning to draw properly, such as anatomy and perspective, and jump straight in with drawing anime people. So the end result is, it doesn't look very good.

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• Message 3. Posted by Researcher 14003517 (U14003517) on Tuesday, 17th November 2009 permalink

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• Message 4. Posted by Comet (U7734547) on Tuesday, 17th November 2009 permalink

  Because of preconceptions. I grew up in they heyday of Pokémon so, for me, that's what a lot of people immediately think of.
  
  Also there's the whole quasi-culture that's built up around it--people often don't just like manga, they like japan on the whole, would refer to themselves as 'otaku' and the like, not realising that within the country this has very negative connotations.
  
  I despair that shoujo and shounen are now so popular. When I first go into manga it's was mostly read by young men, so there was plenty of seinen to go around. Dark Horse picks up most of it now, although sometimes Viz does too. Tokyopop is a lot cause.
  
  And I should shut up.

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