Manga! Manga!

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• The general consensus among readers in Japan today seems to be that comics have as much to say about life as novels or films. But surely one of their greatest accomplishments is to render visually fascinating the most improbable subjects - such as mah jongg, chopping vegetables, and even school examinations. This is done by exaggerating actions and emotions to the point of melodrama, and by paying loving attention to the minute details of everyday life. As the Japanese describe them, their comics are very "wet," as opposed to "dry"; that is, they are unashamedly human and sentimental. (查看原文)

  Karuto 5 回复 1赞 2011-03-19 11:55:09

• Over fifty years ago, Sergei Eisenstein, the Russian filmmaker, perceived a link between the ideogram and what he called the inherently "cinematic" nature of much of Japanese culture. The process of combining several "pictographs" to express complex thoughts, he said, was a form of montage that influenced all Japanese arts, and he added that his own studies of ideograms had helped him understand the principle of montage on which filmmaking is based. More recently, artist Osamu Tezuka has said of the drawings in his comics: "I do not consider them pictures. I think of them as a type of hieroglyphics... In reality I'm not drawing. I'm writing a story with a unique type of symbol." The genuine need of manga for Japanese people... After hours of study comics provide an instant escape into a fa... (查看原文)

  Karuto 2011-03-19 14:01:10

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