Comments on: BL publisher promises to publish books | Scourge of the hentai threatens Vietnamese teens

By: Hisa

Hisa — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:37:22 +0000

@Vietnamese outrage
Ichigo 100% is of course extremely perverted… Yeah, right. It’s 15 plus. -_-
I just can’t understand the outrage, what are people afraid of? That teenagers wil turn into sex monster while reading Manga that are not even hardcore? I can understand if someone is outraged to find Viewfinder in the normal manga section but not this.

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By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:53:08 +0000

Shhhh! Careful with that, people from the overpriced textbook printers cartel might hear you! ;)

By: Lori Henderson

Lori Henderson — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:03:48 +0000

I think you’re partially right about the e-book readers. They do need to mimic the reading experience as much as possible, but I think appealing to students will get them into the mainstream faster. My oldest daughter is only in 6th grade, and the books she has for class are huge and heavy. My supervisor at work was complaining about the cost of college texts for her son, for just used! If schools were to embrace the e-book format, then sales would skyrocket. Sony’s new e-reader, the PR-700 is getting the technology closer to such userability; a touch screen for flipping pages with your finger, and the ability to make notes in the text.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:40:05 +0000

Hay–>

Understandably, Vietnam hasn’t really been an open country until relatively recently. I’m just more bugged by their use of “hentai”. This is all the fault of the English-speaking internet. =p

Tina–>

Nah, it would be more like… let’s say Superhero comics became very popular in Japan. So a Japanese publisher hires a well-known Japanese author to pen a story that would appeal to Japanese sensibilities, but he turns in a script that apes all the cussing of a Grant Morrison comic.

What’s most important isn’t necessarily getting all the facts right (although, that is very important), but writing in a way that is relevant to target readers, more than a foreign product could be. Otherwise, there just seems very little reason for a publisher to go through that extra trouble when they can easily pick up a license. (Unless they just want to own the story outright.)

By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:03:42 +0000

I don’t know…there’s scores of mangaka from Japan who write about Europeans and Americans and get it completely wrong…but that’s just laughed at [mocked] and enjoyed. ^_-

As for the ‘make it like a real manga’ thing…I’ve never been a fan of this. Unless you’re making your book for the Israeli or Japanese market– the book should be bound on the left and read clockwise.

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MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Yaoi, yaoi, yuri, more yaoi — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:02:48 +0000

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By: Hay

Hay — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:44:27 +0000

Vietnamese news: “The covers of these comics are often illustrated with scantily-clad characters, including female characters wearing only underwear.”

OH NO! BECAUSE YOU DON’T SEE THAT ON LIKE 60% OF ALL THE MAGAZINES IN A STORE.

People are waaay to sensitive.

Teenagers are always interested in sex. It has been like that forever, and nothing will change that.