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Sometimes, reading through posts about how a fan analyzes a series, about how a character differs in the manga and the anime, how this event wasted a chance for character development, how this detail in the world-building is lacking and the mangaka seems to rely on artistic license too much, it makes me feel like those fans have put much more thought into the work than the mangaka has.
It's like, I feel it's highly possible for a mangaka to produce a new chapter as a means to an end. Just to get on to a part that s/he thought up. They write/draw scenes that are the way they are because they simply want it that way, or the characters act the way they do because that's what they wanted the character to do (and of course, we accept it as canon because it's their work) and not because they were trying to be consistent or idk.
But when you ask fans, they can somehow give you the next scene and tell you why it would be like that based on the previous chapter and a few extrapolations here and there, and they can make it sound so plausible and well thought out. They can analyze characters so well, it's as if it was for a project for school... which is something I couldn't do even if it was required. o_o
I mean, it's like they can churn out this narrative and upon reading those narratives, I can't help but going 'did the mangaka even realize this. Did the mangaka really draw that because she intended for the readers to realize that?', or better yet 'why didn't the mangaka did that? What were they thinking?!'
Maybe it's because I don't put that much effort into analyzing a work (mindbreaking, I'm afraid is something that I tend to avoid causing myself too much) that I find it so amazing how other fans know their series so well, almost as if having mastered a skill or a thought so much so that they can turn it around in their heads without much effort when trying to reach a conclusion.
I'm not quite sure if I'm making any sense, but I am positive of one thing. Fans are amazing. And scary.
It's like, I feel it's highly possible for a mangaka to produce a new chapter as a means to an end. Just to get on to a part that s/he thought up. They write/draw scenes that are the way they are because they simply want it that way, or the characters act the way they do because that's what they wanted the character to do (and of course, we accept it as canon because it's their work) and not because they were trying to be consistent or idk.
But when you ask fans, they can somehow give you the next scene and tell you why it would be like that based on the previous chapter and a few extrapolations here and there, and they can make it sound so plausible and well thought out. They can analyze characters so well, it's as if it was for a project for school... which is something I couldn't do even if it was required. o_o
I mean, it's like they can churn out this narrative and upon reading those narratives, I can't help but going 'did the mangaka even realize this. Did the mangaka really draw that because she intended for the readers to realize that?', or better yet 'why didn't the mangaka did that? What were they thinking?!'
Maybe it's because I don't put that much effort into analyzing a work (mindbreaking, I'm afraid is something that I tend to avoid causing myself too much) that I find it so amazing how other fans know their series so well, almost as if having mastered a skill or a thought so much so that they can turn it around in their heads without much effort when trying to reach a conclusion.
I'm not quite sure if I'm making any sense, but I am positive of one thing. Fans are amazing. And scary.