Kind of like how Twilight has created a "real" version of the vampire that leads tweenagers to leave disparaging reviews on Bram Stoker's anime page, or the complaints that The Hunchback of Notre Dame is nothing like the Disney version. Or people even assuming that it was a disgustingly grimdark story inspired by Disney and riding on its coattails. It's an adaptation masquerading as the original and enjoying an atmosphere of preference.
Why does the original have responsibility to resemble the derivative? That doesn't make sense. And there's nothing wrong with people enjoying one version more than another--that's a matter of taste. But to me, deciding to act like the inspiring source doesn't exist--which is what happens when you refuse to recognize any differences between what you've produced and the source, and then authoritatively call your product "professional-looking manga" and the like--is sickening.
Forgive me if I intercede (or something along the lines of cut in [in probably a bad way due to wording]) but I'll take note that (well, the whole basis of this post is on the bolded part) there are differences back then, and differences now.
Back then, the concept
was new. There was no backing, no background, and generally a hard and vague idea of what its origin was about (creation of manga and its..err, realism[?]). Compared to said reviews--those (reviews) are just utterly wrong because those things in that context
had a background and origin to base on. (I mean bloody hell. Disparaging Bram Stroker because of...THAT?! Yeah, more than enough to irk consistent knowledge)
Related to the thread, that's what I'm mad about--it irks me that people replace what they see instead of what they understand as conceptual fact. Things that 'are', to them, that is. That, and probable unsorted information regarding how I notice a
great culture change regarding how people
value information...is unsettling.
I don't know how to word it better but the gist is: I am annoyed at how people assume things 'are' how they are today, and take it as that instead of delving back into the past and in the very least appreciating the roots at which what things exist now,
are now. I am irked at how superficial thoughts go, nowadays, but that's connected to mass media--and countered by me being happy in the library awaaaaay from all that.