Is it over yet?

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Pata has some final observations on Anime Expo, including the ubiquity of Naruto and the sharp improvement in fanart.

Naruto continues his run on the USA today booklist, dropping to #107 (from 86 last week). And he has company: vol. 28 of Rurouni Kenshin appears at #150.

ICv2 informs us, with an apparently straight face, that “41,000 unique individuals” attended Anime Expo. Yes, from what I hear, they were pretty unique.

Fangirl backlash from Tainted Blog. Some nice pushback from Anime Bento, while JP Meyer explains why hatin’ on the fangirls (and boys) is just playing into society’s patriarchal norms. I’m with JP on this one. If you don’t like the way someone acts, do them a favor and tell them so. If you don’t like the way they look, STFU. They may not like it either.

Hating on Hot Gimmick, on the other hand, is perfectly acceptable. Great comments thread with this one. Speaking of HG, remember LJ poster Thomas Yan, who read volume 1 and asked if it was going to get any better? He got a couple of answers, and some suggestions for alternatives, in comments. Here’s Mely’s take:

Hot Gimmick is the one I call “The Manga of Deep Feminist Shame.” It does not get better. Skip it.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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2 Responses to Is it over yet?

  1. Jack says:
    July 6, 2006 at 7:55 am

    Hot Gimmick: I read it too because of the great covers and nice art — the story made me sick to my stomach as well. I didn’t make it past the half-way point for the first volume.

    Is it over yet?! SDCC is coming! (then it’s over)

  2. Tina Anderson says:
    July 6, 2006 at 2:47 pm

    Ah the 24/7 manly menstrual fest that is Tainted-Blog. “So stop writing your fanfics slashing every male character known to man together…” wow, this reminds me of my own reasons on why explained that No—chicks who slash and brag on ‘trends’ aren’t really BL fans. But then I guess that makes me one of those elitists choking on her own vomit. ((^__^))

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