Also I'm glad you don't do genre mashups. I'm really starting to hate that stuff. It tells me right away that you probably didn't have a vision or direction for the story and are just trying to throw in random tropes to keep the reader interested.
I've read a few of the "Techno-Magic" stories and I'm seriously to the point where I just hate the entire concept.
I will say this to counter my statement for discussion sakes, and you may agree or not. I do think ONE genre, manga, allows you to have whatever you want in it. Dragons, people flying, demons, sci-fi, horror, all rolled into one package. And it works. But I do think all of the above doesn't work if you don't understand what your story is about, either. So I do agree that you must have some vision even if you're going to do a cross genre extravaganza. Vision is the key to anything you write today.
True, but I think that's because most manga, like most comic books aren't "about" anything in particular. You can team up with gods and robots, fight aliens one week and demons from hell the week after that. There's a very fluid continuity. But in a series with established rules it's going to be hard to also establish a parallel set of contradictory rules. I CAN work if you have a story that you want to tell, but if you're just on staff to churn out serialized pulp it's going to be more difficult to make it actually good.
True. Most sitcoms do that and they don't really follow continuity with the work itself (Family Guy and American Dad are big examples of that), and manage to create a world that is unique to that artist and their beliefs and thoughts and emotions. So, I do agree and I would only make that argument in the case of manga. I think haven't really set up rules for my work. I don't really live by that rigid type of thinking. I don't want everyone to do what I do, because it takes a lot of dexterity. Companies to me always had rules with their art. George Lucas has them, too. To summarize, I just don't ever leave the door closed to have fun with my work and be intellectually curious too. To have that sense of dichotomy.
I don't blame you for not wanting to talk politics too much, but I think everyone should have at least a rudimentary interest in politics if not necessarily a passion for it. It's been demonstrated, to my satisfaction at least, that the forces in this world who want to dominate it's free people rely primarily on the apathy of it's citizens to do it.
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
True. I think it's good to have a set of principles. It helps creates solid foundations. I think to be aware of what's going on is good. But to be inundated every second turns me into the left. But apathy is not my aim. I'm doing what's best for my soul, too. I have been on twitter the last week, (cause of the glorious Musk buying it up), but I'm mostly trying to use it to promote my articles and thoughts about writing. It's easy to get involved again, but it feels soul sucking. I just want to make art again. That's the point. It flares up my Aspergers in a bad way. Even if you don't have autism, twitter can turn your functioning brain into tunnel vision. I guess that's how I look at it. But I will fight for anyone who is speaking out and practicing their freedom of speech and their politics.
Also I'm glad you don't do genre mashups. I'm really starting to hate that stuff. It tells me right away that you probably didn't have a vision or direction for the story and are just trying to throw in random tropes to keep the reader interested.
I've read a few of the "Techno-Magic" stories and I'm seriously to the point where I just hate the entire concept.
I will say this to counter my statement for discussion sakes, and you may agree or not. I do think ONE genre, manga, allows you to have whatever you want in it. Dragons, people flying, demons, sci-fi, horror, all rolled into one package. And it works. But I do think all of the above doesn't work if you don't understand what your story is about, either. So I do agree that you must have some vision even if you're going to do a cross genre extravaganza. Vision is the key to anything you write today.
True, but I think that's because most manga, like most comic books aren't "about" anything in particular. You can team up with gods and robots, fight aliens one week and demons from hell the week after that. There's a very fluid continuity. But in a series with established rules it's going to be hard to also establish a parallel set of contradictory rules. I CAN work if you have a story that you want to tell, but if you're just on staff to churn out serialized pulp it's going to be more difficult to make it actually good.
True. Most sitcoms do that and they don't really follow continuity with the work itself (Family Guy and American Dad are big examples of that), and manage to create a world that is unique to that artist and their beliefs and thoughts and emotions. So, I do agree and I would only make that argument in the case of manga. I think haven't really set up rules for my work. I don't really live by that rigid type of thinking. I don't want everyone to do what I do, because it takes a lot of dexterity. Companies to me always had rules with their art. George Lucas has them, too. To summarize, I just don't ever leave the door closed to have fun with my work and be intellectually curious too. To have that sense of dichotomy.
I don't blame you for not wanting to talk politics too much, but I think everyone should have at least a rudimentary interest in politics if not necessarily a passion for it. It's been demonstrated, to my satisfaction at least, that the forces in this world who want to dominate it's free people rely primarily on the apathy of it's citizens to do it.
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
-Pericles
True. I think it's good to have a set of principles. It helps creates solid foundations. I think to be aware of what's going on is good. But to be inundated every second turns me into the left. But apathy is not my aim. I'm doing what's best for my soul, too. I have been on twitter the last week, (cause of the glorious Musk buying it up), but I'm mostly trying to use it to promote my articles and thoughts about writing. It's easy to get involved again, but it feels soul sucking. I just want to make art again. That's the point. It flares up my Aspergers in a bad way. Even if you don't have autism, twitter can turn your functioning brain into tunnel vision. I guess that's how I look at it. But I will fight for anyone who is speaking out and practicing their freedom of speech and their politics.