What is work?

[quietprofanity]

ON NOTICE!



From here

Yeah, this is old. I just felt like it was time to do it. Also, feel free to ask why any of these people/things are on the list.

Comments

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

"Manga commercial" is a term I just made up (I would have put something more descriptive, but the letters were packed too tight). It means an anime that covers a portion of the manga series but makes no effort to stand on its own or come to a logical conclusion if they don't reach the end. I consider examples of this to be Loveless and Kare Kano, which don't end but just stop (as opposed to the anime versions of Gravitation or Ouran Host Club, which don't cover all of the manga's ground but don't leave you with a "OH HEY WE RAN OUT OF EPISODES SORRY ABOUT THAT" feeling at the end and actually bother to wrap up some of the major storylines). When I complained about this someone told me, "You should think of Loveless as a commercial for the manga." Well, no, I shouldn't. An adaption should stand on its own, and I'm not going to sing the praises of something when it can't even bother to be complete.

And I liked the yaoi meme for a long time, but I do think it's getting tired, except for the rare occasions when a n00b walks into it and seriously answers the question. It's kind of a beaded pony by this point. [lame rimshot]

[a-trill.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I see. Yeah, unfortunately one of my favorite anime is kind of like that. It's a beautiful anime, but then it just stops, leaving all kinds of things unresolved, with the apparent expectation that you can just read the manga to find out what happens. Which was especially frustrating because the manga wasn't available to me the first time I watched it.

It's always amusing when someone tries to answer the yaoi question seriously. Especially if they go on for paragraphs about it. But I see what you mean, it is rather overused aside from that.