part 353 whalers on the moon

[aphanon_meme]

We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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[(Anonymous)]

"You know, I don’t really understand the people who own any merch or form of literature (I’m really focusing on manga) from Japan or other countries if they don’t understand the language.

Like, I know that there are people who are multilingual, but to the people who aren’t ??????? How are you supposed to enjoy it if you don’t understand it?

Are you wait for the writing to speak to you?"

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[(Anonymous)]

You would enjoy the pictures? Or the item itself? Idek what the issue is

[(Anonymous)]

I have French movies and I don't know the language very well. I enjoy them for the acting performance, and because I like the subject matter so I at least get a gist of what's going on in them.

[(Anonymous)]

Are subtitles not a thing in these movies?

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, they're French imports that haven't been released with English subs

[zeetee]

I have a random Japanese volume of Fruits Basket, one of the bilingual Cardcaptor Sakuras, and a Quebecois Tsubasa. I love them because I like languages, I like seeing the different interpretations of the stories, and I like having random stuff from other countries like coins and books and clothes. At any rate, I own english versions of all three so it's not like I'm lost '3' More egregious is the old Chinese children's textbook I own moooostly because of the cute little illustrations, haha :'Da

(And in the case of the Fruits Basket volume it informed and cemented my dislike for Tokyopop's utter mishandling of the whole thing, oh my god how could you take a book with such wonderfully fine lineart, blow up the images to fit larger pages, and then have the gall to crop off the edges of the original artwork anyway?!)

[(Anonymous)]

People can scan those books and scanlators can scanlate? I don't see the issue of owning them, tbh.

And what if I want to enjoy the pretty pictures, eh? Eeeehhhh?????

[(Anonymous)]

Well, at the last convention I went to, my roommates bought a trove of Tiger & Bunny R18 doujins and they had a massive reading party. They just made up whatever lines they wanted and read it that way. Sometimes they didn't even bother to read right-to-left. And none of them read Japanese at all, and they only asked me what one thing actually was. It was hilarious.
So you can definitely do it for the lols, man.

[(Anonymous)]

I "read" comics even before I learned to read. Just looked at the pretty pictures and imagined what's happening.

[yuuago]

I wish I could read all those doujinshi I have piled up, but I have zero interest in learning Japanese. I really wish they were in a language that I have interest in learning.

That said... there are plenty of things to appreciate other than the text. They're comics, so there is the art, for one thing. Some of them are absolutely gorgeous!

And the way the doujin itself is put together is something that I can appreciate too... this part is a little bit more difficult to describe but doujinshi aside, basically I love collecting books that are especially pretty and/or have a lot of thought put into cover/presentation/how they're put together, how they look, etc. And that comes through with doujinshi too. Sure, a lot of them are designed in a relatively unremarkable way, but with others it's really clear that someone went the extra mile with considering not only what the art looks like, but how the overall thing is presented as an art book, and that's really cool.

Also, with a lot of them - or at least, a lot of my favourites - it's pretty easy to follow the plot, especially if it's a historical setting.

... I also own a couple of books that aren't in English but also aren't comics; one in French (which I really struggle to read) and one in Old English (which I can't read at all). And a Japanese volume of Hetalia too. But this is because I enjoyed the English translations and wanted to have a copy of the original version too, for sentiment's sake.