I admit I consume anime and the occasional manga on a pretty superficial level, bit this is also, because most do not really touch me that much and it doesn't really get any "better" by watching more anime - the contrary since stereo-typical clichees are obviously copied by many mangaka over and over. I don't k now what motivates the mangaka. Maybe they find a certain idea hilarious and go with that - as an artist. Maybe others have in mind to have their manga turned into an anime.
Actually I just watched "Age of Hero" (or sth.) Sci-Fi space opera type. But the actual hero doesn't suck as much as they usually do. In fact even though he's depicted as "primitive" or "under educated" he's quite likeable. Despite his (again) "I like everyone on this ship" but he IS for a change quite consistent (esp in his supa-powers), since he was brought up with a task and the plot follows this through. Well, he gets lost in the end and they could obviously not do without him re-appearing in the very last minute(!) of the show. Kind of spoiling the end (as so very often). This (anti) happy end was absolutely unnecessary, since he had done his task - humankind was safe - the wars were over and he was no longer necessary for human kind ("tribe of iron") to move on peacefully.
Being an artist, I see truth in that. There is an urge, suppressing it isn't good for my state of mind. And I think many pop-starts show in their lives off-stage how doing it for fame and money or rather being forced to or feeling obliged to results in mental damage as well.Bookworm wrote:in the end they get to the conclusion that an artist is an enthusiast - literally meaning, he's possessed by a god. So it's some kind of higher power which turns man into an artist and urges him to create art. If it's like that, a true artist can't be bought with money, since there are stronger forces present in his life.
But There are also humans who enjoy stacking shelves - not their entire life for sure, but it's a simple task that allows their minds to wander off to where ever. I believe potentially we are all artists, not that one NEEDS to be one, but much creativity is "extinguished" at young age through so-called "education", which "streamlines" the children for this type of society we are living in. I don't call it a civilisation, since I do not feel this word applies to this world - yet.
Only recently I read that Nick Kershaw's song "the riddle" shall - according to himself - not make any sense at all. He was under pressure to write just another song and that's what it turned out to be. I never understood, why some artists had few brilliant songs and the rest of their album(s) were so banal, so boring, so irrelevant and deprived of emotion or meaning, till I learnt about their contracts which forced them to produce certain numbers of records per year...
That's culturally and psychoplogically an interesting thing in itself. Is it presented by male and female mangaka alike? I mean if kids watch that often enough, doesn't it have an effect on how you perceive adults? And since lots of Japanese adults watch that too, do they perhaps feel obliged to adapt to such a depiction?Bookworm wrote:The perverted father, who in the end gets beaten up by his daughter or his wife (or both of them simultaneously), strangely shows up in quite a number of different stories.