From: chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (James Chiu)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: R.A.M awards '92
Date: 24 Jan 1993 02:45:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsee.berkeley.edu
Summary: AMG
Keywords: H-For Hentai

In article <rec.arts.manga.9301231452.AA19047@syzygy.socs.uts.EDU.AU> axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au writes:

>>honorable mention:
>>Ah! My Goddess (a slow down second half cost it the title)

>Best of '92?  A bit too uneven for that, IMHO.  I think Fujishima
>has just about breached his audience's tolerance for do-nothing
>stories.  I'm not really in a position to give the guy advice, of
>course. :-)  But I think most people would agree that he could be
>doing a lot more with the characters.

It's time K1 OFFICIALLY gets laid. Speaking of which... wasn't SOMEONE suppose
to write SOMETHING around here?

>>***The Best New Manga Title for 1992
>>Deep and Beautiful Asia
>>no contest here, most new titles look weak and unsure compare to this one, 
>>no new title can compare with it for artwork quality, the story, while 
>>might be confusing, can be contribute to its 'grandness', beside I 
>>believe this is actually the author's first long length original story.

>I find fantasy manga hard to get into, but his world is so rich, the
>characters so exotic, the conflicts so nifty, that I'm sucked in.  And
>I don't even understand it! :-)  The masterly artwork is a big attraction,
>too.

I find this serie a bit too... well, weird. It would probably make more
sense if I read it in it's original chinese form... 

>an enormous amount would obviously be lost in the translation.  It even
>seems to lose something in the Chinese->Japanese translation. :-)
>(Actually, I don't know, I'm just guessing from some of the seemingly
>unorthodox names and terms.)

>>***The Best 'Alternative' Manga Title for 1992
>>Dr. Kishiwada
>>simply funny, and if I can describe what it is, then it is not 'alternative'.
>>if anyone who read the parts about the Ninja Science Team w/o busting to 
>>laughter then you have some nerves in the wrong places of your body!

>Heh.  Well, non-otakus might not find it funny, but I don't know how
>many of them read r.a.m. :-)

Dr K. always seem to have this psudo-twight light zone-ish thing with it's
presentation. Most interesting.

>>***The Manga that ought to be finished 2 years before 1992 but isn't
>>Akira
>>I don't think Otomo know how to end this better than the movie version, 
>>that is why he keep putting off to write the ending, (please don't
>>give me this 'he had no time with his other project' junk, he has
>>plently of time, he just chose to do other things....)

>Yeah, I know.  With this kind of lethargy, I wouldn't be surprised
>if Akira #6 is his last manga.  Well, it was a pretty good 10-15 years
>for him, I'm sure. (Maybe he'll continue writing Legend of Mother Sarah,
>though I don't think anyone cares less.)  IMHO, Akira is a vastly
>overrated manga, especially the early stuff.  But to leave it hanging
>just when it was getting good, that sucks.  Someone in the US might
>like to call Epic to find out what's going on, because there's been
>no word from Young Magazine for a long time.

Speaking of which... when are you going to scan in the final pages of the
epic...?

> >Izumi Matsumoto (who knows what he is up to, and who cares?)

>Quite. :-)  But his former assistants live on..

And some doing quite well in fact... :)

> >***The Worst over-hyped manga story in 1992
> >The missing #3 and #5 of Video Girl Ai

>Nahaha!  Well, it's no laughing matter.  There really has been a big
>crackdown on suspect mangas... 1st-hand reports have it that the super-
>depraved stuff, which used to be rather bountiful on bookstore
>shelves, has been removed completely.  I guess it's no great loss to
>humanity, but it's a great loss to my conversation-piece bookshelf. :-)

To this day I fail to see what all the fuss is about...

>>***Worst Americanized Manga Title in 1992
>>Ranma 1/2
>>classic + colorization + adaptation = trash 

Sad thing is that some people actually like it. :(

> Iain Sinclair    axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au