The Phases of the Moon on Neo Venezia…
“Why is it that slow, slice-of-life series like Aria are extremely popular and adored in the blogosphere, yet never transfer over to the rest of the anime-watching crowd that feeds on a steady diet of Naruto and Bleach? Are bloggers really such a different breed of fan?”
The sequences of my reactions were:
1. Wait, extremely popular?
2. Aria is extremely popular among blogs? Really?
3. Blame Jeff Lawson. (And Momotato.) But really?
4. I guess we’re proto fans–people who read Moonphase and stuff like that; and Aria is popular among Japanese otaku too, and…
5. What does the average anime fan think about when they see the word “moonphase” anyways?
6. [Thanks MueySanri:]
7. … Nah. Ok let me bang up a few sentences and get this out of here.
8. ???
9. Do people even read blogs? I know people barely write blogs covering purely anime, so that’s no surprise that the blogs have little penetration into the average narutard demographic.
10. How about things like Anime Insider? Do we even have marketing data?
11. Oh dear this comment is way too long. Maybe I’ll write a post on it.
12. On second thought I’ll just rewrite this and keep it short.
13. What the hell is a shoujo…anything anyways? I mean, it means “girls” of a certain age. But what does that mean in this context? Didn’t we already beaten this to death a while back? Again? And again? I lost track. Maybe someone can bring up those dreaded 3-letter thing called OEL and distract us. Guh marketing.
14. Maybe all this fangirl nerdrage can be summarized simply by lamenting upon the poor distribution of accurate information within anime fandom. It isn’t that bloggers get things right or anime magazines get things wrong, and it might be too much to ask of us to get stuff right. But can’t we at least all be wrong together? Is that what this is an attempt of?
15. Maybe a certain someone of the industry should start reading and blogging. Nerdrage has a strangely addictive effect on you…
16. Hmm, I notice how I sidestepped the whole “slice-of-life” thing. If Wikipedia has already declared it a mangled metaphor then we really are in no place to discuss this. I guess I won’t.
17. How the hell am I suppose to blog about this?
18. Profit!
That graphic is exactly what I think of when I think about Moon Phase, albeit not when I think about MOON PHASE.
I think reaction 8 sums my reaction to this post best. :P
Maybe you could do what you did for mecha in your last post for slice of life. Or something… :/
Tempting as that may be, slice-of-life is not really worth writing so many words for.
I don’t get why people are so hung up on the narrative style.
Because “nothing happens”? :/
That’s the thing–I’m more tempted to write about people who are hung up on slice of life narratives and their “nothing” that is suppose to happen, than those shows themselves.
And that means LOL time to trolllll
why is no one watching babylon 5 all my friends on usenet and internet forums think its unanimously the best i dont get it everyone just watches lost and friends and sex and the city what is wrong with people can’t they see what they are missing it can’t be that we’re just a bunch of nerds with peculiar taste can it
/me goes back under his bridge