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Fri, Jun. 18th, 2004 10:47 am (UTC)
>I read Mars in the week around Wiscon (some of it while waiting in >the airport), and adored it, despite some misgivings about gender >issues and a general embarassment about how *girly* it all was, which >tells you all too much about me.

Except for the part about Wiscon and the airport, me to. Were we separated at birth, or is our reaction symptomatic of how an early exposure to feminism and both political and personal issues with gender roles leads to both critical reading and an automatic bristling at anything which society dumps into the "appropriate for females" basket, even if there's nothing inherently wrong with it?

On another subject, great post!

When I show people manga or anime for the first time, their first comment-- always-- is that the characters don't look Japanese. They have a really hard time reconciling the characters being Asian with their eyes not having epicanthic folds. The hair colors don't help. I generally give them the standard story about Osamu Tezuka having been influenced by Disney and it them becoming a convention, plus hair colors making it easier to distinguish characters, but even people who are familiar with the idea of genres having conventions (like sf fans) seem to have a really hard time with it.

And once they get over that, THEN they have a hard time with the tone shifts and the concept of chibi. Not the cuteness so much.

(Regarding non-sf fans having trouble with conventions, my Dad once read a fantasy novel where the characters travel from Los Angeles to Magical Alternate Los Angeles. He had no problem with the cops riding on giant butterflies and so forth. But what completely destroyed his suspended disbelief was that the characters there spoke English. He kept insisting that since everything else was different, they should speak some fantasy language. I kept saying, "It's just a convention, like the way Tolkien's characters aren't really speaking English, but we couldn't read the book if it was written in Hobbit." But for some reason he could not wrap his mind around it.)

Yes, YUU YUU HAKUSHO is available, and I'm pretty sure I saw SLAM DUNK in a bookshop the other day. The first volume of HIKARU NO GO also just came out, and PRINCE OF TENNIS is supposedly available but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
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