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This has nothing to do with Megatokyo, so stop being a wise ass.Kishi wrote:Yes, kindly knock off the Megatokyo shit.
Is the style similar? No.
What the hell do you have against it?
What the hell does my style have to do with me being Japanese? WOW, I do vertical comics! Whoopdy-fuckin' do! It doesn't mean I'm trying to be Japanese.j-man wrote:Are you Japanese? If not, stop kidding yourself.
Thought you guys had open minds. Oh well.
I don't think they are talking about the vertical panel orientation. I think they are talking about the character design style -- particularly the facial expression conventions you've used -- and the character names. It's not as specifically derrivative as a comic like Megatokyo, which looks exactly like the work of one particular Japanese artist named Ken Akamatsu. But it's definitely playing in the same convention sandbox as a lot of other Japanese comics.
I'm not sure if we can really pick on folks anymore for doing this, though. Back in the day, most or all of the white kids trying to draw "manga-style" were usually embarassingly hardcore japanophiles. You had to be! Anime was still a cult thing, and only the hardcore would be familiar enough with the style to even bother trying to ape it. But these days, this Japanese stuff is everywhere. These kids are growing up watching primarily Japanese cartoons and reading Japanese comics. It's only natural that the work of a whole new generation of cartoonists is going to look like Manga by default, because that's the style they're being exposed to the most.
I'm not sure if we can really pick on folks anymore for doing this, though. Back in the day, most or all of the white kids trying to draw "manga-style" were usually embarassingly hardcore japanophiles. You had to be! Anime was still a cult thing, and only the hardcore would be familiar enough with the style to even bother trying to ape it. But these days, this Japanese stuff is everywhere. These kids are growing up watching primarily Japanese cartoons and reading Japanese comics. It's only natural that the work of a whole new generation of cartoonists is going to look like Manga by default, because that's the style they're being exposed to the most.
It's only natural that the work of a whole new generation of cartoonists is going to look like Manga by default, because that's the style they're being exposed to the most.
Which is really hard on me (and I'm sure others as well) whenever I draw something that isn't suppose to be anime/manga at all, yet some random dude says it lools very anime/manga, a style of art I don't wanna overdo (since I've been cutting back on my anime watchin' and focusing more on American cartoons like the good ol' days).
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I agree. But I will still harp on his art, not because it's Japanese, but because it's bland and unoriginal.Esrever wrote:I'm not sure if we can really pick on folks anymore for doing this, though. Back in the day, most or all of the white kids trying to draw "manga-style" were usually embarassingly hardcore japanophiles. You had to be! Anime was still a cult thing, and only the hardcore would be familiar enough with the style to even bother trying to ape it. But these days, this Japanese stuff is everywhere. These kids are growing up watching primarily Japanese cartoons and reading Japanese comics. It's only natural that the work of a whole new generation of cartoonists is going to look like Manga by default, because that's the style they're being exposed to the most.
And CM August, I love it.
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I wasn't even going to talk about the comic itself, but since we're on the subject, might as well. It plays off of clichés, and the characters are fairly two-dimensional. I'd go as far as to call them static, but that would require a general idea of their personalities, which is not really defined beyond "pathetic, male" and "violent, sociopathic female", as well as "intelligent and more or less not having a defined gender". There are almost no redeeming qualities.Protodude wrote:Sure, the art was pretty bland, but what I disliked about it the most was the "me too" japanese styled humor it presented.
No effort whatsoever. D-
He may be from the SatAM cartoon, but Cluck was awesome.
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