• Jakdracula@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I don’t care for any of it. I don’t like comic books and I don’t like Star Wars either.

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    3 months ago

    like most things, some of it is very good but the vast majority of it is extremely poor. I wouldn’t say I like or dislike it as a rule but I’d say on average I dislike it by far, and when it’s bad it has a way of being very intolerably bad.

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    Yesterday I drove by Düsseldorf, which is Germany’s most Weeaboo city, and they had this ugly fucking mural at their train station.

    I don’t mind most anime/manga based media, but media about anime/manga makes me really uncomfortable. Defining yourself by the fact you like Anime is just a lot weirder than defining yourself by the fact you like JJBA or InitalD.

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    3 months ago

    I find that there is far too much of it in my Lemmy feed. I have a very long list of blocked communities which I have blocked, tediously, one at a time as they appeared. Obviously a lot of people like it, but it’s not for me.

    I wish there was a setting similar to the one that blocks NSFW content, but for anime and manga.

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    3 months ago

    Yes I despise it, I hate the influence it’s had on making everything over sexualized and cliched

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    3 months ago

    Those are pretty broad categories. It’s like asking “Does anybody dislike cartoons and comics?”

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      To my utter dismay, I’ve learnt that there are some people who find that question entirely sensible and normal.

      I know people who will refuse to watch anything animated or comic related

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      It’s like asking “Does anybody dislike cartoons and comics?”

      I have to disagree.
      Comics is a huge, world-encompassing category of media in which events & stories are depicted through (generally) simplified art with text insertions. Manga (for example) is a subset of comics, being both specific to a single country as well as existing as a certain style of comics.

      Personally I’d add that manga tends to exist under fairly tight conventions in terms of how things are visually portrayed and in terms of how information and context is given towards the reader. For example, kind of like emojis, there’s a bunch of facial reactions and certain simple phrases that instantly tell you what mood or reaction a character or the author is trying to impart. This kind of thing isn’t surprising to me either, as Japan tends to heavily codify cultural tradition, even in a relatively new-ish field like manga. There’s also the fact that an enormous tradition in manga came out of aping or riffing on the early creators, primarily Tezuka Osamu I’d say.

      So, point is-- one can dislike a certain niche or branch of comics, but that certainly doesn’t have any special impact on how one likes comics in general. Personally I’m not a huge fan of manga, and superhero comics bore the tights off me, and I’m not as much a fan of underground comics as I used to be, but overall I’m a huge fan of the comics medium, and of course love me some BD, part of why I try to make a new post daily.

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        Manga is the Japanese word for comics. There are many different styles and inspirations by a myriad of artists.

        It’s like saying all cartoons are the same as Disney, or all comics are basically Superman.

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          Yes, “manga” is the Japanese word for comics, but in terms of the overall, world genre of comics? It specifically refers to comics within a certain style, ~99% of it being Japanese-made.

          It’s like saying all cartoons are the same as Disney, or all comics are basically Superman.

          Yes, those are some nonsensical falsisms. Thanks for randomly stating them?

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    Me.

    I’ve tried. I won’t say it doesn’t deserve to be liked, but it does absolutely nothing for me.

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    I’d say I’m just uninterested, not dislike. The part I hate is when I see people dedicate their whole life into them and fail to function as a normal human.

    Vtubers on the other hand, I absolutely despise. They are basically YouTubers/streamers with an anime character and get much more views for no reason. I guess that’s free market for ya

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    IMO it’s simply a medium to convey ideas. There’s bound to be anime or manga worthy of distain. But you can say the same of film or books. Perhaps one might dislike the general trend of those industries too but I don’t think that makes it fair to judge future works based on the prior disliked works.

    TLDR: Judge works, not mediums.

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    Most of it because it’s never ending. 1000 episodes? Fuck me that’s just an animated soap opera.

    Tell your story and fuck off.

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    I am very selective with it. I like a few here and there. I can’t always watch it or follow it all the time.