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Nele Noppe

Boys' Love vs. Yaoi: An Essay on Terminology | The Mark of Ashen Wings - 0 views

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  • The defining characteristic of boys’ love, I’d argue, is that it is a narrative about the romantic or erotic relationship between two or more male characters that has been created with the intention of appealing to a female audience.
  • This broad definition of boys’ love has the advantage, to academics, of expanding it beyond its traditional application to Japanese or other Asian media (usually manga and anime) to encompass non-Asian genres such as slash and to permit the analysis of books about male/male relationships written by women that have otherwise been left out of such categorization
  • Subgenres within boys’ love, then, would include those various categories based on setting, source material, age of characters, status of presentation, plot type, and the like.
Nele Noppe

Roundtable: Should manga be flipped? - 0 views

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  • On the authenticity question—a translation is always going to be a translation from another language, and as we are talking about sequential art, it's not like we shouldn't expect there might be changes in the visual translation as well as the textual. There's always a divide between what fans desire and what will bring a product to a wider audience.  Hitting the balance enough to satisfy both parties is nigh impossible.
Nele Noppe

AmazonFail, Amazon.com Discriminates Against GLBT Content, boy's love manga affected - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 16 Apr 09 - Cached
  • For those of you who missed this fast-spread news over Easter Weekend, Amazon.com is being targeted for discrimination. Adult content, with particular emphasis on homosexual titles, began disappearing from Amazon’s search results and individual listings have had their Sales Rank (how well they’re selling comparatively on the site) removed.
  • As my site caters primarily to a manga reading audience, yes, yaoi was/is affected. There were several yaoi titles that no longer came up when I searched for their names or authors (Kitty Media titles in particular) and the pages no longer had sales rankings.
  • It was a blatant matter of discrimination, and whether by fault or intent, it was an issue that had to be dealt with head on.
Nele Noppe

Thought Police Can't Protect Real Children - 2 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 08 Apr 10 - Cached
  • would have established the catagory of "nonexistent youth"
  • The banning of fictional depictions of child abuse would likely be as meaningless as the banning of fictional depictions of car chasing with the aim toward reducing motor vehicle accidents in real life.
  • If content alone was the issue, war footage and horror films should be banned as well.
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  • Content in itself is not the issue--Child pornography has been outlawed because the methods involved in production involve real children in possibly abusive circumstances. How the material was produced is what makes it criminal, not what impression it conveys on the audience. 
  • Child pornography involving real children being sexually abused is horrid beyond words. For that very reason, I find it reprehensible to mix together such acts of human misery and suffering with illusionary fantasy that exists only in the author's imagination. Widening the definition of child pornography to include fictional material belittles the gravity of real sex abuse.
  • Many convicted criminals also cite the Bible as their inspiration of conducting astonishingly savage acts, and yet few would attribute the Bible as the root cause of such criminal behavior. Why?--Because free societies accept the principle that people are responsible for their own actions.
  • It is very dangerous to restrict the actions and rights of citizens based on the principle that some limited number of individuals may act irresponsibly. This is the equivalent of removing knives from the household kitchen because someone used a meat cleaver to commit a crime. Again, this logic is unbelievably reckless as well.
  • Furthermore, crime statistics published by the Japanese police themselves show no causality between the proliferation of erotic material and sex crimes. The crime rate has dramatically decreased since WW2 while the availability of erotica and violent fictional entertainment has risen by leaps and bounds during the same period.
  • It is easily imaginable that an endless cycle of accusations and denials will unfold regarding establishing the "true age" of fictional characters. Authors and publishers will more than likely attempt to proclaim that the characters look young, but they are actually above the age of 18. Physical attributes vary between widely depending on race and ethnicity, not to mention fictional non-human characters.
  • Publishers and authors are extremely proficient in adapting toward new regulations. If graphical depictions are banned, then abstract or comedic depictions will increase.
  • Either an ever increasing set of symbols will be deemed to be inappropriate to be linked to a core human attribute--human sexuality--or the futility of the ban will lead the law to become impotent over all.
  • Even today, numerous adult manga publications have self censorship standards that are mind-boggling. Authors have complained about how some editors have insisted on having all female characters appearing in their works be endowed with large breasts because drawing women as they appear more like in real life was deemed "too childish looking." 
  • Banning the fictional depictions of minors involved in sexual situations will make a fundamental core human attribute taboo.
  • Such a ban will stifle creativity and impoverish the cultural landscape.
  • The value attributed to works of literature and art change over time. The works of modern art and literature from the last two centuries are filled with examples where they were deemed to be vile, corruptive trash by contemporary authorities, but now these same works enjoy high status as priceless cultural treasures.
  • A culture grows richer through addition, not by subtraction.
  • A ban on fictional depictions of minor engaged in sexual situations has the very real potential to brand individuals as sex offenders even though they have had no sexual contact with real people. I believe there could be no legal justification for destroying people's lives simple because they drew doodles on paper, but the proposed ban would create such a legal precedence. 
  • I am absolutely certain that history will not look back kindly upon such a ban, and it will join a long list of colossal failures of regulatory policy, such as the prohibition of alcohol in the US between 1920 to 1933, various sodomy laws, the comic book code, and bans on socialist literature in Japan during the prewar era. It is important to note that all these failed moral crusades were led by virtuous and diligent individuals intent on making the world a better place. 
Nele Noppe

Are we on the verge of the new digital world of iManga? - 1 views

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  • What excited him most, however, was not access or audience or fluidity. Size matters, he said. He'd always dreamed of a way to enlarge his drawings so that readers could appreciate each and every detail in his work. "Costs a lot physically, but if you can just touch the screen and enlarge an illustration? Wow." A few days later, a writer friend at a dinner party in Manhattan told me of an older author he knew who was reading more now--mainly because of her new e-reader'sfont-size enlarger. Ed Chavez, Marketing Director for Vertical, Inc., publishers of Japan-related books and manga, agrees that screen size counts a lot. "The iPad takes care of the limited screen of the iPhone, which adds an element most have not considered in Japan: a new platform for manga distribution."
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