Forum - View topicWhat the heck....different manga...same exact intro
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x_Hisoka_x
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I decided to check out Escaflowne from my school library and started to read it. 'Girl gets sucked into another dimension/world'. Hmmm pretty cool story line. The next day I picked up the manga called MAR. 'Boy gets sucked into another dimension/world.....' .Wait...didn't I see an anime that was like this. Oh yea it's called Inuyasha. Why the heck do they keep using this damn dimension sucking plot to start off anime/manga. It's really starting to bore me. I'm sure there's tons of manga/anime that start like this. Why is this such a popular intro?
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HitokiriShadow
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I guess because people like it. It allows them to put a sympathetic and understandable character into a fantasy world.
Besides, its not like they are all the same. Aside from going from Japan to some other time/place, things can go anywhere they want from there. It's not like all of these Girl/Boy Goes To Alternate Time/Place stories are all the same. It's just a premise, just like anyone wanting to be the best [insert title/job occupation here] ever titles. |
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marie-antoinette
 Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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The more manga you read, the more similar plots you'll see. It gets a bit ridiculous at some points and you have to hope there is a deliberate homage-ness something because the ideas are so similar.
But usually how those ideas are carried out is different, which is a good thing. The person sucked into a new world storyline is definitely a bit one, I can name a fair number of titles off the top of my head for that one: Inuyasha, Escaflowne, Fushigi Yuugi, The Queen's Knight...it's definitely popular. But each of these series has it's own spin on things, which is good (and which leads to someone being able to like one quite a bit, be mildly interested in another, and dislike yet another...as I do for those titles mentioned). |
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zliplus
Posts: 27 Location: St. Jerome's, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
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Furthermore, the alternate dimension trick is extremely common in all literature, not just manga. Consider classic works like Alice in Wonderland or the Wizard of Oz. It's the simplest way to place a distinctly human character, perhaps with distinct cultural traits, into a strange world which would not otherwise produce such a person.
In the examples I've mentioned, the dimension trick places a human into a fantasy world lacking (normal) humans. In the mangas already mentioned (and most mangas employing this technique, I think), the fantasy world generally includes other humans, but the main character is distinguished by his or her cultural situation (often a Japanese schoolboy/girl). |
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kolibri
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This is exactly it - it's not necessarily the concept, it's what you make of it that counts. I mean take any mange genre like shounen, shoujo, BL... pretty much all stories have a similar structure and certain character types. But a good storyteller and great art will make every story different and interesting, sometimes even great. Obviously if you do it badly you'll end up with soulless copies... but those seldom become very popular. |
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I_AM_L
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D. Gray-Man is probably one of the most stereotypical manga, but it's still pretty good. I almost threw volume 2 out the window when Kanda said "I can't die until I find that person."
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kolibri
Posts: 712 Location: Vancouver |
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True, true - I get huge Sasuke-flashbacks from Kanda... Still, I love D.Gray-Man, I love Naruto - neither very original but still done extremely well and very entertaining. |
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jak000012
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MAR is exremely good, i love that show.
  
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x_Hisoka_x
Posts: 260 Location: Formerly: Anime_Newcomer |
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yea im really enjoying the manga. I love the whole Arm premise. I didn't know there was a show though...I'll definitely have to check it out.
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Eruanna
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It isnt just manga. Its a pretty common theme in practicly every form of fiction.
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