Huh, this just took an interesting turn. If you're unfamiliar with the tropes specific to manga, what sort of 'hybrid' are you achieving exactly? I'm not trying to be confrontational here, but if you endeavor to blend art forms or styles, it seems that a minimal fluency in the language of those forms would be necessary, otherwise it really is nothing more than cultural appropriation, no matter how much ink you spill explaining that it's not.
That said, I don't think it's necessarily important to repeat those tropes specific to manga -nevermind that this is usually how one would go about defining the borders of identity, by recognizing and then subverting recognizable tropes- but as an indicator of familiarity, not being literate in manga tropes suggests that perhaps you've not read very much of the stuff. And having a blindspot in your reading is nothing to be ashamed of -we all have them- but for a creator, particularly someone interested in hybrid forms who also seems to be sensitive to charges of cultural appropriation, that's something of a credibility gap.
Now I want to know what manga you've read, now I'm curious what your entry point into the medium is, and most of all, now I really want to know what exactly it is that you connect with in the manga you have read which suggested to you the idea of hybridization. Unlike manhwa or other pan-asian manga hybrids which developed organically over years out of subcultures of artists and creators, your hybrid seems ... not to put too fine a point on it, opportunistic rather than strictly organic. Thoughts?
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Huh, this just took an interesting turn. If you're unfamiliar with the tropes specific to manga, what sort of 'hybrid' are you achieving exactly? I'm not trying to be confrontational here, but if you endeavor to blend art forms or styles, it seems that a minimal fluency in the language of those forms would be necessary, otherwise it really is nothing more than cultural appropriation, no matter how much ink you spill explaining that it's not.
That said, I don't think it's necessarily important to repeat those tropes specific to manga -nevermind that this is usually how one would go about defining the borders of identity, by recognizing and then subverting recognizable tropes- but as an indicator of familiarity, not being literate in manga tropes suggests that perhaps you've not read very much of the stuff. And having a blindspot in your reading is nothing to be ashamed of -we all have them- but for a creator, particularly someone interested in hybrid forms who also seems to be sensitive to charges of cultural appropriation, that's something of a credibility gap.
Now I want to know what manga you've read, now I'm curious what your entry point into the medium is, and most of all, now I really want to know what exactly it is that you connect with in the manga you have read which suggested to you the idea of hybridization. Unlike manhwa or other pan-asian manga hybrids which developed organically over years out of subcultures of artists and creators, your hybrid seems ... not to put too fine a point on it, opportunistic rather than strictly organic. Thoughts?
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