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OTAKU_RESPECT

                                               May 10, 2012


The Japanese tendency toward classification,
toward slotting things into their boxes.

The fear of individuality, the constant
search for an allowed, approved move.

An acceptance of genre, a willingness to
proceed by very small steps.

They approach the material with more
respect, because their egos are off of the
table.

When you make an anime of a manga,
you don't throw away everything but
the title and write your own story--
as is done regularly in the Hollywood
world.  "The book was different from
the movie" is such a common comment
it's become stupid to even say it.

    The equivalent inane remark in the
    anime world is "the anime appears to
    be following the manga pretty well".
                                              LUCKY_MIRROR
                                              OTAKU_CONSUMED

               Because of this greater respect
               for the material (for the audience?),
               perhaps their commerce deserves more respect?

                                   I look down on commercialized
                                   culture not out of a desire to
                                   be a true red marxist or the
                                   snob to end all snobs, but
                                   because my experience has been
                                   it doesn't work.

                                                   (But there are times
                                                   and places where it
                                                   does or did: 30s/40s
  So what works depends on who                     Hollywood.)
  you've got working; the social
  character of groups determines
  what groups can do:

      Social groups are not interchangeable units,
      because Human beings not interchangeable units...

        Connect to:                            (And yet, what about
        The co-operative                       the thought that
        Balinese...                            individuality can get
                                               in the way?)
                         THE_ROAD_OF_BALI
                                               The actual Hollywood Syndrome is
                                               a problem with over-reaching:
                                               daring to be great when you're
                                               not that great.




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