Re: Manga vs Comics.


to megami@usagi.jrd.dec.com
from Chae An <chaean@hom.net>
subject Re: Manga vs Comics.
date Tue, 01 Jul 1997 01:04:34 -0400
At 02:16 PM 6/30/97 +0000, Chris and/or Meryl Jefferson wrote:
>At 01:41 PM 6/30/97 +0000, [Henry J. Cobb:hcobb@slip.net] wrote:
[...]
>>My only compliant is that AMS is written without the cheater Hiragana
>>(Even though the Kanji aren't that tough).  What sort of audience does
>>Kosuke Fujishima think he's writing this silly little story for anyway?
>
>A bunch of Otaku who pick up they're copies of AFTERNOON when they're done
>inhaling noodles at the ramen stand, that's who. Complain though one might,
>the Three Goddesses have made Kosuke Fujishima a reasonably wealthy guy.

        I believe the Afternoon is a shounen manga magazine.  "Shounen" is
young teen (male) to teen, while "seinen," or young adult, is the next
category up.  So the target audience is probably anyone from 10 to 18 or so,
although that certainly is not the exclusive target.

>>(Note that it is NOT in general possible to write Japanese in pure
>>Hiragana, because they've got too many homophones and lack civilised
>>touches like spaces and punctuation.  So it isn't entirely a plot to
>>annoy gaikokujin ;-)
>
>Clueless gaijin here knows not a whit of Japanese, so inquiring mind wishes
>to know: what is the big difference between Hiragana and Kanji?

        Hiranaga and katakana can basically be thought of as phonetic
alphabets, in that each character represents a sound.  If you want to write
"tsunami," you write "tsu" and "na" and "mi" in either hiranaga or katakana.
The katakana is generally reserved for foreign words, or when you want to
emphasize the word, as in bold type.  The Kanji for "tsunami" are two
"pictogram characters" originated from Chinese characters.  Unlike the
hiranaga or the katakana, each Kanji actually has one or more meanings which
may depend on context and usage.  Each Kanji also generally has two or more
"pronounciations" depending on context and usage.  Confusing stuff. ^_^

>>They do a much better job at stocking SM, which does have the cheats,
>>but last I saw, they still had the 14th volume of the AMS manga.
>
>Gosh, last I heard they were up to volume 17 in Japan and Bell-chan was
>going through an "I've lost my Powers, eeek!" storyline.

        14 is the latest tankouban, or collected manga volume.

>Chris

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