As I am told by some humans that I do not read anime blogs decent, I decided to prepare the effort and read some of them today. The reading makes me realize how much I have been lost, be it from blogs, sites or even the newspaper. Here are a few articles that I have been reading for the past week, with a little bit of commentary from me.

1. Manga Mania

As much as I want to complement WSJ’s usual high standards, the view presented by the editorial is particularly myopic. In that case, movies made in the United States should never be used as a cultural diplomacy, as we know how much porn is run from the big brother country. Sorry for the crude reference, but to state simply the extreme case of anything is anything but mature from a well respected newspaper in my opinion. One has to accept that there are things that are extreme, and some that are mainstream. You can label anything you want, but the writer sounds a lack of respect for fans.

2. The Future of Anime

I do like the scoop, but it fails to mention that traditional media is often entrenched too much in their traditional ways to switch. whether they are still earning huge profits in the old way, is there really any economic push

to a completely different path where they are merely another company vying for a pie when they already have a huge pie. I am somewhat glad that he does note the point in which the dynamics have to change with the proliferation of the Web as a distributor in the future. The very fact that the Net has given the culture a “free for all” in terms of copyright infringement and the incident of the ODEX fiasco has brought fair use, downloading to the forefront. It’s a pity that I do not have the linguistic skills to detail my thoughts on that as yet. I might pen something in the future on business directions, but I am no Jerry Yang.

3. Are more original anime more creative

I really do like how the blog mentions about that theme, as there is often confusion on whether original are definitely more creative or not. The definition of creative behavior is subjective in itself. Do you mean animation style, story plot, pace or many of the complex factors that is within an animation company’s scope. I really do not think that it is a very crucial question to be bothered about. To me, creativeness is just a vague instance, let’s bother about quality. whether there is no quality to talk about, creativeness is nothing. Period.

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