So if someone sells something you don't approve of it's "taking advantage of people who are not as smart as me"?
No. I literally think it's actual false advertising, since they're treating this like a vaguely professional manga development tool rather than something that will get you laughed off the planet if you show up with it. "Impressive and professional-looking manga" my ass.
People can recognize games made in Game Maker pretty easily, right? But this is worse, because the people who manufactured it apparently didn't know things like "all manga is black and white." Or that thought clouds are an American convention, whereas the Japanese convention looks either like
this (see middle panel) or in a more modern, shonen style, like
this. Or that those two styles of school uniform would basically never be seen together at the same school, since the male blazer version is more common of fantasy private academies, and the sailor suit look is more common of public middle schools nowadays. So the correct pairing would be gakuran and sailor fuku, or two blazer-based uniforms.
Oh, and she's wearing a summer uniform, while he's wearing a winter uniform. Don't even get me started on the crowd scene where his blazer is the only dark blue one with everyone else's teal, because this device has an abysmally bad case of "everyone has the exact same face and haircut."
Oh, and the story they're telling shows that the people who put together the trailer know
literally nothing about framing and pacing comics.
Literally. Nothing.
This is what I'm trying to say: I don't have a problem with people putting their shitty manga makers up on Steam, but MAYBE, just maybe, they'd like to take two minutes doing the things that would make it look like they know ANYTHING about the convention they're supposedly working in. This is the work of appropriative piece-of-shit jagoffs with no respect for manga and the desire to make a quick buck off of people who are too young and stupid to recognize what's happening.
No, weeaboos are
not going to be all over this, because
most weeaboos out of elementary school know better.
Amerimanga by professional artists is not selling because the fans know that it isn't what they want. And I'm furious, because these assholes seem to think that we manga fans didn't learn anything about what we were reading, and can't tell the difference between shit made by Americans and Japanese people. Or that we don't care.
Yes, we can tell that you aren't actually a Japanese artist when you try to sell us "How to Draw Manga" books. We can tell you got a pen deal with Copic and aren't actually telling us anything about the tools of the trade. Yes, we can tell that you don't actually know manga conventions very well, or the history, or even who the important writers in the different genres are. We know you don't know anything about Japanese literary culture or, hell, even plot structuring.
I'm not mad because it's on Steam. I'm mad because it exists.
would be a reasonably cheap posing program if you wanted to make a 3d rendered webcomic or something.
This is a good point. If they were selling it from that perspective, I'd be fine with it. Mostly, I'm just upset because it feels like the final insult in a long string of exploitative products sold by Americans pretending to be Japanese.
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