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gynocrat_rex
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IAWTC. |
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YotaruVegeta
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I cannot speak about how good/bad the Witchblade manga is, because I have not read it, but I don't think a scantily clad woman with generous cleavage was a hot contender for a Harvey.
Besides, Witchblade is not strictly a manga, is it? If I can nitpick, it's based on an American comic series. |
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GATSU
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Yotaru: If it wasn't a contender, why did they nominate it in the first place?
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testorschoice
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We have Japanese manga based on English novels, Casablanca, Shakespeare, and even the Bible. They're still Japanese manga. After all, Shakespeare based The Comedy of Errors on earlier Roman plays, but his version is still an English play. |
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GATSU
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testor: But is an American comic done by a manga artist now manga or still a comic?
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testorschoice
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Why not both?  They're not mutually exclusive. Especially in this case, since Witchblade Takeru was published in both Japan (Akita through Champion Red) and the U.S. (Top Cow).
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YotaruVegeta
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It depends on who you ask. Some people say that manga has to be purely from Japan, from start to end, just like anime. I don't say that, but that's how others would like to classify it.
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Sven Viking
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Nice choice on Perry Bible Fellowship.
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The Xenos
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Yet it was originally published in Japan under license from Top Cow / Aspen Studios / the late Michael Turner. Note that the category isn't even called 'Best Manga'. It's 'Best American Edition of Foreign Material'.
Where is it published? What language do they speak there? What word do they use? There's your answer. Keep it simple. Keep it logical. The prime example I like is when mangaka Tsutomu Nihei did a Wolverine comic mini series for Marvel. Of course do you call it a comic or graphic novel? Usually the floppies are comics and the trade paper back is a graphic novel. Er.. or trade paperback. It's also all sequential art. ... Hm. See. We got enough damn terms in English, no need to add Japanese into the mix.
Did someone just say "weeaboo"? |
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