{"id":70,"date":"2007-10-14T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T07:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/index.php\/2007\/10\/14\/mixing-east-with-the-west\/"},"modified":"2007-10-14T15:54:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T07:54:31","slug":"mixing-east-with-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/2007\/10\/14\/mixing-east-with-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixing East with the West."},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, I can’t help but enjoy John Jakala’s slew of ideas with regards to mixing mangakas with amecomi.<\/a> :3 Actually for the past two weeks, he’s been enjoying the idea of mixing eastern stories with that of the west. My favorite was the Yotsuba with Calvin and Hobbes (soo cute!) and now, even drabbling with the idea of Takeshi Obata drawing Batman. Well, why not!? Although I highly doubt they will ever drabble into creating something like that, it’d be amazing if they were commissioned to do something like it. Just make sure you have someone like Jeph Loeb as the genius to write a story for Obata, I’m sure he’ll pull it off. I mean, he made go<\/em> interesting! There’s so much he can do! (obviously, I’m a fan. lol.)<\/p>\n

What was interesting was Ed of Mangacast<\/a> pointing out which of the American counterparts would draw something from Mangadom. Would you see Frank Miller drawing something like Monster or maybe Vagabond? Would you imagine Jeph Loeb writing something like Liar Game? I know a Filipino comic artist, Elmer Damaso, is drawing Speed Racer for Seven Seas (Yay, Mer!), but I guess he counts now for the American manga industry. Going back to Seven Seas, imagine Madeline Rosca drawing Card Captor Sakura and other youthful Clamp stories. It’s quite interesting, and perhaps if America’s doujin community is as nurturing as the Japanese market, we could have seen the likes of these experiments in the West.<\/p>\n

Another interesting mix is the study on the concept of Superheroes being similar in both the West and the Japanese.<\/a> Many manga fans have scrutinized the American heroes saying they don’t compare with their American counterparts. Some of my comic reading friends think that manga charas don’t compare with their superheroes. Well, read and weep, disbelievers! This article fleshes it out for you how they can be similar too… in some aspects. :3<\/p>\n

Lovely weekend reads that made me wish that there was a Kinokuniya nearby for me to flock and oggle over books for. *prays December*. Well, this three day weekend allowed me to catch up on some fun reads, including some highly sought after Metal Gear doujins! (Yay!! Snakey-wakey schmex!!) *sigh* I hope next week, I don’t get eaten by work again. :3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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