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NEWS: Infinite Stratos Novelist Yumizuru Confirms More in the Works

and then wish death on the author.

I understand hate for something but is some-one holding a gun up to your head and forcing your watch, read or worship it??

Indeed, it would be awesome, but why stop there? Why not include the author of OreImo and Yumizuru dead after committing erotic asphyxiation together?

You people have serious issues, grow up punks. Wishing harm or death to someone just because they wrote something you dislike is completely unnecessary and moronic.

Its just a really shitty show.

That also sold like hotcakes. I wouldn't hate it so much if it didn't embody so much of what is wrong with the fandom today, and I wouldn't hate it so much if it had been a failure.

Not "meant for our market", huh. True, but it still affects us. If Japanese Otaku refrained from buying crap like Infinite Stratos and instead bought titles that are actually good then the overall quality of Anime would increase and we Westerners would have better shows to watch. So it does affect us, and therefore I do have a right to be annoyed that the Infinite Stratos Light Novel series is getting more books? Instead, why not give a chance to a bright up-and-coming novelist with big fresh ideas, or an established author who can actually write characters properly? Or a guy who understands physics and robots better than the grade-school experience-level of Yumizuru?

Those poor sellers still sell; someone out there is still buying them.

Actually, I am wishing harm on people who are a cancer that is hurting the Anime industry's quality, reputation and popularity. Unlike the average Forumite, I actually care what happens to the industry that makes the works that I am a fan of. If the only authors in the industry were of good ability then it stands to reason that the works the industry creates would be of good quality.

In the end, anime is just another medium. Fiction has good works, and it has Twilight. Film has 2001 and it has Transformers. Music has country. Though I see the argument that anime can be corralled in and improved upon because of how tight of a business it is, how narrow the focus of the demographics are, whereas those other forms of media produced world-wide, anyone can try to make gangster rap, but only Japan can make anime.

Are ya sure-sure? Have ya heard Japan try gangsta rap?!
And which side of the (music) tracks do ya put country?

enurtsol wrote:

Are ya sure-sure? Have ya heard Japan try gangsta rap?! And which side of the (music) tracks do ya put country?

The operative word was try, but there's definitely more out there than just rappers in America.

Approaching this issue you meet some immediate roadblocks: they sell to the Japanese first and foremost because they're the ones willing to buy the product for the exorbitant prices charged there. Without being there and voting with yen, your vote might as well not count. Sure Japan tosses out a Badlands Rumble once in a very long while, but that's one instance out of thousands. We are essentially voiceless, and buying FUNi's Baccano BDs doesn't raise the volume because you're shouting through a tunnel layered in sound proof foam, full of middlemen and contracts. Japan does produce more "cerebral" anime, but they don't sell big, so of course they're not made in large numbers. But that's how music, book publishing, television, and Hollywood are too. Except they're so vast and wide that it's that you can't take it all in like you can with Japanimation.

Remember how you've been banned or put under moderation before? Thinking like this is why that happens. Come one man, demonstrate a capacity to learn!

If you are sincere, your priorities and sense of perspective have become worryingly distorted. Besides, shouldn't you be calling for genocide against the people who buy Infinite Stratos? They're the ones who create the market for it and things like it, which is the whole reason they exist.

Configspace, if Otaku spent the money on good titles rather than bad titles, then it would make a difference to everyone.

I'm not calling for Otaku to be killed. As an optimist, I hope that they can simply be 'persuaded' to watch good stuff if the industry pulls up its socks. Heck, if the industry got better and stopped pandering to Otaku then maybe - just maybe - the average Japanese could get behind Anime as a normal medium, and we would see a new golden age of Anime. Authors like Yumizuru are not going to get us there, I can tell you what.

I'm not calling for Otaku to be killed. As an optimist, I hope that they can simply be 'persuaded' to watch good stuff if the industry pulls up its socks. Heck, if the industry got better and stopped pandering to Otaku then maybe - just maybe - the average Japanese could get behind Anime as a normal medium, and we would see a new golden age of Anime. Authors like Yumizuru are not going to get us there, I can tell you what.

Replying to earlier comments about my statements:

I was speaking about writing LNs that sell, I never said anything about anime.

Configspace: RE: Japanese mental health/otaku

I wasn't saying you are mentally ill for liking a show. I'm saying that the Japanese otaku fanbase has a very large proportion of people that have separated themselves entirely from the real world. I'm sure you've seen plenty of pictures of some of the crazy stuff they do. And with the internet, this has caused the "Tail to Wag the Dog" in the last 10 years.

It's resulted in lots of stories development being figuratively castrated. They don't want to "upset" anyone, so they won't definitively pick a girl, or have them dating, or even come up with a conclusive ending. All for fear of fanbase backlash.

And with the serial nature of manga especially, they feel beholden to caving into these demands, instead of having the courage to write the story they want. Not that I can totally blame them when it's their paycheck on the line...

Fencedude5609 wrote:

and then wish death on the author.

Or in dragon695's case, wish the death of two authors where one really had no relation to the other besides being LN writers.