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about to mute this one because people have once again presumed i use twitter to have any sort of a conversation let alone debate
i often think about my local library when i was a teen, specifically whatever mysterious cool librarian was doing the book buying, because they had things like the original translation of coin locker babies, which fucked my shit up good at 17/18
Author Ryu Murakami, whose edgy works explored sex, violence, and youth culture, has died, his publisher said Friday. He was 74. ebx.sh/LqglYT
i find it hard to believe that people who apparently read a ton of manga/watch a ton of anime are just now finding out that japan also has 1.) uptight nerds, 2.) racist incels, 3.) obnoxious ultra-nationalists, 4.) people so obsessed with nerd hobbies they venerate corporations
i know we've all basically accepted that one of the costs of modern living is being ceaselessly exposed to awful shit 24/7, but it's still weird to live in a world where "guy self-immolates on live video for an audience of teenagers" is just another blip in the data spew
even with the myriad ways he was fucked over by the comics industry, alan moore really lucked out that his loudest and most persistent critics for 40 years have been adult fans of superheroes, just a lion lazily swatting away gnats with his tail
i feel like i must have read this at the time and then completely forgot, but either way 30 years later rivers being a big joe matt fan is a real "mr. policeman i gave you all the clues" situation
funny how the current version of this site is making me meaner and angrier than ever, but i'm also probably posting less than ever, so it probably evens out
comics vs. manga always essentially boils down to two groups fighting over which nation has the best YA books, but also there are probably more US comics readers who know about yoshiharu tsuge or kuniko tsurita than US manga readers who know about gary panter or lale westvind
the audience for anything actually interesting (and actually aimed at adults, rather than just more seinen melodrama or direct market genre junk) in both comics and manga was and remains extremely small, most of what's produced is mediocre or worse, true for anything
idly scrolling the replies/quotes to this and getting a real "there's probably no actual hope for the US" style headache
many replies (especially to the quotes) claiming the right is path to economic prosperity. buddy a turkey sandwich costs approx. $900 right now, the spending power of the US dollar is probably the last thing you want to use to prop up your rickety ideology
