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Challenge #3
In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.
This one's easy: I had not initially imagined that I would enjoy reading manga, largely due to two factors.
My plan was to go into museum conservation and so, unlike many of my classmates, reading manga in Japanese wasn't a motivating factor for my desire to learn the language. I was, however, a big fan of western comics and those are in color. While I did just fine with black-and-white comic strips (Calvin & Hobbes, Boondocks), I felt like longform illustrated storytelling would lack something in monochrome.
Then I got to Japan and discovered that there was far more out there than was available in the States (thankfully, this is nowhere near as true now), and that was all she wrote (or drew, I suppose). Now I'll read a black and white manga as readily as a full color graphic novel.
これで以上です。
In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.
This one's easy: I had not initially imagined that I would enjoy reading manga, largely due to two factors.
My plan was to go into museum conservation and so, unlike many of my classmates, reading manga in Japanese wasn't a motivating factor for my desire to learn the language. I was, however, a big fan of western comics and those are in color. While I did just fine with black-and-white comic strips (Calvin & Hobbes, Boondocks), I felt like longform illustrated storytelling would lack something in monochrome.
Then I got to Japan and discovered that there was far more out there than was available in the States (thankfully, this is nowhere near as true now), and that was all she wrote (or drew, I suppose). Now I'll read a black and white manga as readily as a full color graphic novel.
これで以上です。
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