So I’ve not posted in about two weeks. Their was a reason for that. I’ve been really busy playing an awesome game called Borderlands. I’ve also been busy fending for myself and hanging out with a good friend who just got back from vacation. Long story short I’ve been busy enjoying myself in DC.
Anyway back to the subject of this post. The other day, Thursday night I believe, Lauren was visiting to prepare for her first day at work in awhile, she missed two days in a row because of illness and MLK Jr. Day, and found a documentary about Manga (Japanese Comic books) called “Manga Mad.” We proceeded to watch this documentary because both Lauren and I are very interested in the concept of fandom, however in less then 5 min it was clear that even though it was on Hulu it wasn’t any good. Everything about this film was terrible from the quality of the interviews to the voice overs which needed subtitled because of the accents of the translators, to the cinematography if you could call anything about it cinematography. It was poorly filmed and worse of all poorly cut. About half way through the movie they start to recycle footage, and numerous times they jump from subject to subject only to come back to it later. Did I mention that they focused on the Hentai and Erotic part of manga way to much… even to the point of having interviews about pedophilia and why lolicon isn’t pedophilia… (The interview will leave you dumbfounded and def doesn’t send the right message).
After watching this abomination of Otaku culture… which basically makes Manga seem weird and doesn’t really explain any of the fundamentals (really missing when, and why) Lauren and I have taken it upon our selves to rectify this problem… (I think.) Neither one of us is an expert at making documentaries, but at the same time It would be hard to do much worse then what was shown in Manga Mad. We are already planning to Film at Katsucon next month and are hoping to put together a solid documentary about american Otaku.
@Lauren if I spoke out of line let me know. =P
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