So this morning as I was going through various blogs and blog alerts, I noticed that there seem to be quite a few people talking about manga versus American comics and the like. A few examples:
Sporadic Sequentialist wonders why dedicated manga companies don’t send their release schedules to manga and anime news sites. A valid point. I guess we bloggers have been visiting publishers’ sites and amazon.com to get the dates for so long we’re all just taking it for granted?
A writer at comics2film lambasts “manga-style” and OEL, saying that there IS no such thing as “manga style.” He challenges readers to find a similar thread between items like Robot, Fruits Basket, and Gon. He may have a point, but I would argue that manga style is one of those things (and I hate that I’m using a definition of obscenity for this, but it’s still true): I can’t give solid rules on what makes something manga-style or not, but I know it when I see it. (There are some common aspects, like the big eyes, but for every rule there are exceptions.)
And I also heard that the Sci-Fi Channel’s AniMonday block will now be showing Titan A.E., that 2000 attempt by Fox to make an anime-style flick (I have no idea if it’s any good; haven’t seen it).
Hmmm!
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Titan A.E is not a bad movie. Not sure why they are showing it in a anime block because it’s not anime - animation yes but not anime. Seems a bit stupid to me to do that.
Yeah, it doesn’t exactly belong in an anime block but it was enjoyable enough way back whenever I watched it.
OEL was something I was going to write about this Tuesday Rumble, but it’s been postponed for a couple of weeks.