I cannot see how this is not a good thing. More positive attention for the comic medium in general? And people are complaining? Yeesh.
It's not as though most manga -- let alone those licensed here -- are truly exempalary works of sophisticated fiction. Should these nominations actually showcase those mature stories that are often ignored, then it can only bolster the comic medium as a whole.
| Craeyst Raygal wrote: | The shame of this is that anime and manga are getting a Hugo category so long AFTER anime's sci-fi boom era.
Let's face it, with few exceptions - series like Planetes, for instance - anime is moving further and further away from the days when "make it like Blade Runner" was status quo (Bubblegum Crisis, anyone?) |
Uh, aside from missing the part about this pertaining to manga and other comics: what?
Serial Experiments Lain? Texhnolyze? Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex? Pale Cocoon? Eve no Jikan? Paprika? Denno Coil Ergo Proxy? All of them, with the exception of Ergo Proxy (and parts of the second half of Denno Coil), are imaginative works in their own right. Amusingly enough, EP is brought down by its various homages -- Blade Runner included -- and becomes a superficial, pretentious mess that skates on the thin ice of a plot with pastiche subtituted for substance.
Even anime like Cowboy Bebop, Noein, Kaiba, Infinite Ryvius, The Placed Promised in Our Early Days, Kurau and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya have sci-fi underpinnings. And it's a critical plot point in Ghost Hound.
Please take off those rose-tinted glasses. Constantly aping Blade Runner leads to stagnancy, and is a large reason as to why those types of stories have fallen out of general favor as time has gone by. |
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