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*laughs* Narrative cohesion is a cliche like a car with 4 wheels is a cliche.

There's a difference between "pandering to" and "aimed at". What kind have people can fully appreciate the likes of Lucky Star and Genshiken unless you're speaking on the same level? I like Kill la Kill and it's pretty hard to imagine most people "getting" Kill la Kill that aren't already in that target demographic. And considering that I'm IN the target demographic, it's worth also considering the fact that I might not appreciate disruptions in tone and story in order to play into the interests I've been stereotyped with.

Imagine if you're at a rockin' metal concert and they stopped a song DEAD partway through a solo and the guitarist walked up and threw a bunch of Suicide Girls gift certificates in your face before walking back and struggling to find their spot back in the song.

That what it feels like to me.

I certainly don't get that impression and I have no idea where you get it. It frankly sounds offensive to the countless people who put a lot of effort to defying that very idea... like Miyazaki.

It's ethnocentric to expect a story to follow it's own rules it's established? That's AMAZING. I've never heard that one before.

I'm not sure "universally appealing" is the best way to describe male idealism.

Your description is precisely why I don't like that character archetype; because it lowers it's female characters to a level preferred by low male audiences. There are females reading All You Need Is Kill too, and not all males appreciate the distraction.

UUUUUGGGGHHHHH that was stupid drawn out.

No, you're right, there are a lot of bad ones, but I'm not generalizing all instances of the trope, I'm talking about the trope itself.


Sure, but those tropes aren't exactly "old" if they're still being played straight to this day.

It was less the Japanese cliches that bothered me than it was the nonsense plot and the romance that overwhelmed the climax. That's definitely not just a Japanese thing.

I'm disappointed you think this was just about what I like.

That kind of casual dismissal is a much more frustrating trope than anything in All You Need Is Kill.

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Hyperbole.

I still need to read Cerebus, but the rest of those are great. Preacher is my favorite series of all time, actually. I didn't think the ending was a cop out, I thought it was fitting, considering the rest of the story. I'd add Watchmen, V For Vendetta, Punk Rock Jesus, and Fables to your list, too.

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I haven't read any of those. I am not really interested in the content of Swamp Thing tbh, but since it's Alan Moore I may have to give it a shot at some point. I read part of Sandman and it didn't really do it for me. It's been a while since I read a comic, but the last good one I read was Batman: Year One.

Year One, I remember when that hit the shelfs. Frank Millers stuff would fly off the shelf, his work on Daredevil propelled that character like RDJr did for Iron Man. Klaus Jansen and Miller worked together alot, but not Year One.

Idk Monkeypunch, I was hoping all along theyd reveal John Wayne as the God, it would have made sense, and then....well, it ended B-rated stupid. my 2 cents, many more agree with you.

Cerebus was in-credi-ble Issues 1-25, High Society, and Church & State I & II. Skip the other 175 issues as Sim goes on a literary form of mental masterbation writing, droning on and on pointlessly. The art crowd might dig the last 175 issues, but those first 125 issues were an inarguable masterpiece.

Has anyone read The Matrix Comics?

They are awesome, and expand the universe. I believe there are two volumes comprised of short stories by different authors and artists.

No I missed that but heard it was good

Jango Fett: Open Season was a really nice 4 part mini-series. Objectively I wouldn't say it's great in terms of artwork and story, but still decent for a comic. It was more the content that was interesting, the Mandalorians.

Neil Gaimans 1602 is the next TPB Im gonna read. Hes like an R-rated version of Alan Moore, who is NC-17.

There's nothing R-Rated about 1602. You're going to be terribly disappointed if that's the reason you're reading it. It's fantastic reading though.

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I see you have a Preacher av, we might have discussed this already Im not sure, but I wanted to ask - Did you like how Preacher finished? I was seriously let down but seem to be the only one. It reminded me too much of the ending to Inglorious Basterds, where QT wrote himself into a hole and copped out with his "homage to drive in movies" ending

Haven't even finished it yet mate. Only read the first 38 issues. Loving it so far though, i'll come back and tell you what i think when i'm done.

Oh Dude! Dont let me discourage you, its a fantastic series Yeah Ill definitely want to chat about it when youre done.

I've been reading Amazing Spiderman from the start as well haha. Read the first 20 issues. Really interesting seeing all of the characters introductions and the differences from how i know Spiderman. I really like Stan Lee's simple writing as well; he's no Alan Moore but he does make the stories fun even though they are corny as hell.

Year One is one of the best comics ever written, I think I like it more than The Dark Knight Returns.

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The most popular foreign comics in Japan are Korean and Chinese. Overall the US comics are not a large medium compared to Manga or Korean or Chinese language comics. Their international influence is not that great either. Japanese comics are enormously larger as a medium, in fact, there is no country that is remotely close to Japan in that area of cultural production, their dominance in Comics and Animation is overwhelming.

Also, I should add that I am Brazilian so I don't have any cultural connection with American comics in particular. I read mostly Japanese comics because they are very well made and have genres that I like: historical, slice of life, science fiction and high fantasy. I don't like particularly the superhero style but I enjoy American 4 panel comedy comics liek Cyanide and Happiness and Hagar the Horrible.

I have brought the Sandman books. I will read then at some point.

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The little girl is an essential element of Japanese culture. Its widely used in manga of all types aimed at all demographics. Its common in Japan for manga aimed at adult males to feature little girls aged 8-17 as main characters. I personally view this as something great because little girls are an excellent way to create characters that are vulnerable and reflect some of man's nature without the vener of masculinity and it's associated stoicism.

In this case we have a collection of 4 panel comic strips that are very funny but still very realistic depiction of high school life in Japan. Its the original source material for the now popular genre of anime, "Cute Girls doing Cute things". However, this manga is more realistic and subtle than most current incarnations of the genre

After reading through its 700 pages I felt refreshed and "healed" by the daily "adventures" of these girls. Although the art is of relatively low quality.

Thoughts on +Tic Nee-san?

Haven't heard of it. I will check it out.

I just brought it, As a big fan of the movies.