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minakichan
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This says something about the state of OEL today.
I'll let you guys figure out what that something is. |
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Dranxis
Posts: 591 Location: Ohtori Academy |
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Congrats to Fred Gallagher and all, but like everyone else I think there are better OEL manga out there to pick up. Plus, Megatokyo has a very "American anime-fan" sense of humor, I dunno how well that would translate overseas.
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Ranmah
Posts: 294 Location: Stomp'n on Tokyo Tower |
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Yeah! it just shows you that hard work will bring big rewards. When this book comes out, I'll be the first one to buy one.
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GATSU
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Ranmah: What hard work? The guy uses a half-assed doujin style and relies on otaku jokes. And his comic already got kicked around by two publishers. I'm guessing the only reason Gallagher's getting published in Japan is he blew the right people.
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Thinkersblock07
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Wow! Congrats to Fred! It's such an amazing leap for him!
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testorschoice
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Uh, please don't cast unfounded aspersions. The first publisher, Studio Ironcat, folded due to alleged embezzlement in the upper management that had nothing to do with Megatokyo. As for the second publisher...did you not noticed it was DARK HORSE who help pushed this Kodansha deal? Dark Horse even sells Megatokyo on its website still. Instead of being "kicked around" by two publishers as you falsely claim, Megatokyo has been supported by THREE publishing companies: Dark Horse, CMX, AND Kodansha. Not to mention the editions in German, Polish, Italian, and French.
According to the news article, Kodansha approached Gallagher, not the other way around. Do you expect people to take you seriously if you make an unfounded claim of sex for favor? |
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Kibate
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and so the flaming begin
seriously, he may be just an "otaku" like us, but he still managed to get some popularity. It doesn't involve magic or anything(maybe not even talent), he just done the right thing at the right time and managed to hold onto it until...now, that's what most mangaka/comic-artist do. I've seen already A LOT of really great artist in the web that would blow your mind if you saw these in a regular comic book, but for some reason they can't get it done. The ability to draw pretty picture isn't the only thing someone requieres to become popular |
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smoochy
Posts: 367 Location: Texas |
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I'm not the biggest fan of Megatokyo, but from his point of view this probably feels like the ultimate wet dream.
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Tempest
I Run this place.
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Megatokyo is a megahit in terms of OEL properties, You can count on one hand the number of OEL's that have sold more than 20,000 copies. Megatokyo was a megahit in terms of web-comics traffic wise, but it's traffic growth has slowed down while other's have overtaken it by far. Alexa Comparisson this one's fun too Should be noted though, Alexa is often a little (sometimes very) inaccurate. Personally I thought Megatokyo was better (funnier) back when Largo was involved, but regardless I remain a fan today and visit the site 3 times a week. -t |
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britannicamoore
Posts: 2618 Location: Out. |
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im so happy for Fred. I love his OEL manga.
EDIT after thinking a bit about it...(this is one of those life questions) Why is it everytime someone in our community rises up and gets a good opprotunity or something happens to expose us in a more favorable light ; we bash ourselves even though a good majority of us wish for the very same thing. How many anime fans have had ideas they wanted to get translated into japanese? Considering how well this goes he might be able to get it adapted into a show. (which I would love btw!) I'm sure more than half of Answerman's flakes ask how to do what Fred's doing. ....and GATSU. Why all the Megatokyo hate. You've got to admit that (regardless of his art style) he's stil getting a major chance here that not many OEL manga artists/authors can say they've gotten.
that it's getting better? or were you going to say something along the lines of: it's ripping off real authentic japanese manga so much that its good enough to grace there store shelves? If that's not what you were thinkg I'm- you left it open for me to guess.[/b] Last edited by britannicamoore on Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:28 am; edited 3 times in total |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
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Why don't you share your insight with us instead of giving vague, worthless comments like this one? |
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DKL
Posts: 1956 Location: California, USA |
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Oh man, I'd kill to see an anime adaptation...
... Well, mainly because I haven't been keeping up with the comic; I'll get down to reading it all one of these days... for serious. That said, this is cool news. |
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linlinchan
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Sorry, in my mind I just can't make sense of how it meshes with the Nisioisin and Otsuichi work that dominates Faust. Some of the other international stuff that's run in the magazine (those Taiwanese comics, Thom Jones' "Cold Snap", etc.) worked because they have a popular and accessable, yet stylish, highbrow (I GUESS that's the word I'm looking for, but it feels a little wrong, sadly) sort of feel, but I don't see Megatokyo that way at all. |
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The Xenos
Posts: 1519 Location: Boston |
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I'm sorry. I'm sticking to my guns here. Unless you're living in Japan and publishing there, you're not a manga-ka. If you're in America, you're a comic book artist or, even better, a cartoonist. You're not Japanese. Get over this fact. And I don't mean to attack you or single you out. There are many who subscribe to this school of thought and I keep telling every single one of them they are simply wrong to use that Japanese term for themselves. For goodness sake's, what's wrong with speaking in English terms? I think Megatokyo and moreso its fans and imitators are some of the worst when it comes to this redefinition of terms that I argue to be baseless and cheap. I have two friends who currently have or are about to have webcomics up and running. Never mind a number of artists I follow on various professional and amateur levels. They don't call their work manga. I like how one of them says he more prefers the term cartoonist for his work. Hell, even I once did an Evangelion parody webcomic years ago and that sure the hell wasn't 'manga'. I keep saying it, OEL manga is a myth purported by people trying to hawk their product as Japanese. Get over it, Fred, you're not Japanese. I'm glad you're being published in the country you love so much, but it's still not authentic manga. Of course, this isn't the first time I've commented on your using that term. animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=334612#334612
Now there's an amazing graphic novel series. Both the wonderful publisher (Oni Press) and creator (Brian Lee OMalley) use the proper term. Manga isn't a style. Manga isn't a publishing format. It has too much variety to fit one style or format. Manga is just comics originally published in Japan. Anyone who claims it to be more than that is redefining the term for their own gain or just never understood manga to begin with. |
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pluvia33
Posts: 194 Location: Dayton, OH, USA |
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Manga is comics. It's as simple as that, just the word in a different language. Saying manga is only comics originally published in Japan is an American redefinition of a foreign word. But on topic, it's interesting news. I might look into buying the JPN edition when it comes out.... |
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