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daneford:
I find most manga pretty generic, not my thing really. There are exceptions of course :)
Primate:
The pacing of magna drives me crazy. I know it's just a cultural difference, but it doesn't take long for the drawn out action scenes and glacial development of characters to break my suspension of disbelief and make me wish I was reading something faster.
I've also given up the idea that the magna craze in the U.S. is going to crash anytime soon. When the section for magna in my local Borders ballooned from one stack to six a few years back, I figured the supply had surged ahead of actual consumers. However, the movement doesn't seem to dropping off, so I'll concede that I was probably wrong. Although I got to wonder how small lingy's town is if there's only one shelf of the stuff.
Sideways:
--- Quote from: Primate ---The pacing of magna drives me crazy. I know it's just a cultural difference, but it doesn't take long for the drawn out action scenes and glacial development of characters to break my suspension of disbelief and make me wish I was reading something faster.
I've also given up the idea that the magna craze in the U.S. is going to crash anytime soon. When the section for magna in my local Borders ballooned from one stack to six a few years back, I figured the supply had surged ahead of actual consumers. However, the movement doesn't seem to dropping off, so I'll concede that I was probably wrong. Although I got to wonder how small lingy's town is if there's only one shelf of the stuff.
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Yeah, pacing in Anime/Manga is usually VERY frustrating.
DragonBall Z.
Jeebus. I watched a few episodes, and I think about 10 punches were thrown in this one epic fight... in a total of about 4 episodes... so that's almost an 1.5 hours.
The length of an average Hollywood film... and 4 punches get thrown.
Most of the time it's the protagonists floating in mid-air, breathing heavy, having internal monologues about 'power levels'.
Most boring stuff I have ever seen.
mosfet:
thats why I liked it in comic form in Japanese. When you can't read the long dialogues and monologues, its actually quite fast paced! :)
Nettle:
yes i guess that would be a benefit of not being able to read the language... *raises eyebrow*
yeah, i agree. it's annoyingly slow... and they ramble on about nothing for ages and ages... That's on one hand. But on another hand, have you noticed that most (not all i'll admit) are like totally and utterly hyperactive characters?? or they'll like, hit each other over the head for no reason. Or they'll completely overreact to something, things that just don't happen in Western style cartoons/comics. Like... falling over backwards when someone finally understands why they've gone all chibi and are waving their arms like an insane thing. And... those little sighs...
I dunno, they just don't seem to express themselves very well without having 'sound effects' etc. I'll confess i've read webcomics which have manga style illustrations. But if i try and read a real manga, it just makes me want to stab something with a fork.
Oh, and half the time they seem to be completely sexist.
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