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NEWS: Bleach Ends Watchmen's 11-Month Run as #1 Graphic Novel

My beef isn't with just Watchmen, per se. It's more with what the American comic industry did after Watchmen came out, which was try and copy that and the Dark Knight Returns. The dreary darkness and hopelessness of the current American scene is really stifling. Everyone wants to write the same things over and over. It's my main reason for dropping just about everything Marvel and DC are doing right now. I just don't want to read so much overly depressing stories, as good as they may be. I'd rather read something that lifts my spirits and Bleach is doing a really good job of that as of late.

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animehermit, as anyone will tell you, Japanese anime are not cartoons. 99% of those who frequent ANN just follow the trends and don't treat anime as the series cultural event that anime fans from Japan take them in.

The recurring problem I've seen from those who post here on the forums are fans who are into anime simply for the popularity of the genre.

I can tell you that if you head over to the forums at Megatokyo, a community that has dedicated itself to Japanese anime, which has serviced the online community for over 20 years, a lot longer than ANN, that you'll find yourself getting flamed and banned for suggesting such a thing.

Shows such as Bleach, One Piece, Pokemon, Digimon, Naruto and others like that just show how stupified American anime fans have become.

There is just so much anime out there that is considered more serious than those I mentioned. I just think that ANN needs to do more in getting its facts straight than reporting that Bleach Volume 27 has spent 11 months as the top #1 book when the manga volume mentioned had only been released last month.

I wish I could see into the future like ANN does.

Colonel Wolfe wrote:

some nonsensical BS, in triplicate

not even gonna bother

Colonel Wolfe wrote:

animehermit, as anyone will tell you, Japanese anime are not cartoons. 99% of those who frequent ANN just follow the trends and don't treat anime as the series cultural event that anime fans from Japan take them in. The recurring problem I've seen from those who post here on the forums are fans who are into anime simply for the popularity of the genre. I can tell you that if you head over to the forums at Megatokyo, a community that has dedicated itself to Japanese anime, which has serviced the online community for over 20 years, a lot longer than ANN, that you'll find yourself getting flamed and banned for suggesting such a thing. Shows such as Bleach, One Piece, Pokemon, Digimon, Naruto and others like that just show how stupified American anime fans have become. There is just so much anime out there that is considered more serious than those I mentioned. I just think that ANN needs to do more in getting its facts straight than reporting that Bleach Volume 27 has spent 11 months as the top #1 book when the manga volume mentioned had only been released last month. I wish I could see into the future like ANN does.

... So... if I happen to like one of those anime your posted, I'm stupid? And anime fans have just recently become stupid for liking popular series? And anime is not a form of animation to be lumped with anything else because it comes from the holy land known as Japan? And Megatokyo's forums have been around since I was 3 years old, and in that case they SO set the standard to how we all should deal with people who aren't obsessive.

You, good sir, make me laugh for posting some weird otaku rules in an thread that didn't even call for them.

In the spirit of the thread I just can't help but wonder: What would Rorschach do?

But why do we even need to keep only to American and Japanese comics? V for Vendetta for example was originally published in England under an old, now defunct comic publisher, and titles such as Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis are in the same non-fictional vein as Spielgelman's Maus. Persepolis is a title that's I'd love to see at #1 over here and I think the whole country could benefit from reading it.

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But why do we even need to keep only to American and Japanese comics? V for Vendetta for example was originally published in England under an old, now defunct comic publisher, and titles such as Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis are in the same non-fictional vein as Spielgelman's Maus. Persepolis is a title that's I'd love to see at #1 over here and I think the whole country could benefit from reading it.

Yes, I agree. I will also like to see the French TinTin and the English Eagle on that list, though that will never happen.

Damn it.

littlegreenwolf wrote:

britannicamoore wrote: The Xenos wrote: 42nd Street Borders: Manga women's breasts draped across every shelf, every display, littering the aisle. Was offered shojo love and shonen love, but not American comic love. Top selling American comics; like coke in green glass bottles, they don't make them anymore. Oh my God. It's time we have a thread for Rorschach's Adventures in Anime. Seriously, the idea is amusing me to no end. I'm wanting to draw up some fanart now. But what section to put the thread in? Would something like this even be allowed?

That would make an excellent webcomic. Someone please do it.

LeoKnight25 wrote:

I also have to say, in defense of Watchmen's age, yeah, it is 20+ years old but, so what? Has anything in the American comics scene before or since been as thought provoking or deep as that, with the exception of Art Spiegelman's Maus?

Um, Sandman, The Preacher, The Fountain, and Kabuki?

Also, Fables is a pretty fun title. Nowhere near Watchmen in its depth, but it does a fair job deconstructing and retelling age-old tales. I especially recommend 1001 of Snowfall, which is a supplementary issue with insanely beautiful art.

Well, again, I never said that ANN Members were children when it came to anime. Only that when it comes to anime that the vast majority of anime fans are only drawn to simplified anime.

Unfortunately, this includes such anime as Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, Naruto and the like.

It's just funny how anime fans seem to defend those same simplified anime that they look at as being repetitive and boring.