Toxx Clause
Okay, so in the Comics News World today (thanks, The Beat!) it was announced that Rumiko Takahashi's new series (!!) is going to be run online in english simultaneous to its Japanese release. Blah blah, that's cool to fight scanslations or whatever, but I was more excited to find out Rumiko Takahashi has a new series. (It's running Here, by the way)
Weirdly, Takahashi was probably my biggest and strongest early influence in terms of comics. I ruined myself into nerd-dom by old Square games and Sailor Moon, but Urusei Yatsura and Ranma 1/2 were a lot more readily available in comic form (or hell, in any form) when I was 12, and even at a young age I really strongly disliked Takeuchi's style. Hell, when I look at my work I can still see that bit of Takahashi that was put there when I started drawing.
I still have a lot of respect for Takahashi as a creator, but I feel like between Ranma 1/2 and Inuyasha (even moreso the latter) becoming huge successes, she's stagnated. Her more recent work (and a lot of her older work) has a rote formula in terms of both storytelling and character development, and while that rakes in the cash, it's creative suicide.
I hope that with her newest series she decides to take some risks again and do something different, which is what brings me to this post, which I want to make before I lose interest or change my mind or something (and it even sounds really retarded as I type it so whatever but BEAR WITH ME)! If Rin-Ne manages to have its main characters be archetypes aside of the standard Takahashi Couple (Ranma/Inuyasha, the Brash Man and Kagome/Akane, the "tsundere"), I will not only read it, but I will make a fan comic. I'm talking a full-on, published-by-way-of-copy-machine, 8-16 page minicomic. I'll give her five chapters, since that's standard tankoubon length.
CAN YOU DO IT, TAKAHASHI? Can you appease the wishes of some no-name jackass in a different country????
Weirdly, Takahashi was probably my biggest and strongest early influence in terms of comics. I ruined myself into nerd-dom by old Square games and Sailor Moon, but Urusei Yatsura and Ranma 1/2 were a lot more readily available in comic form (or hell, in any form) when I was 12, and even at a young age I really strongly disliked Takeuchi's style. Hell, when I look at my work I can still see that bit of Takahashi that was put there when I started drawing.
I still have a lot of respect for Takahashi as a creator, but I feel like between Ranma 1/2 and Inuyasha (even moreso the latter) becoming huge successes, she's stagnated. Her more recent work (and a lot of her older work) has a rote formula in terms of both storytelling and character development, and while that rakes in the cash, it's creative suicide.
I hope that with her newest series she decides to take some risks again and do something different, which is what brings me to this post, which I want to make before I lose interest or change my mind or something (and it even sounds really retarded as I type it so whatever but BEAR WITH ME)! If Rin-Ne manages to have its main characters be archetypes aside of the standard Takahashi Couple (Ranma/Inuyasha, the Brash Man and Kagome/Akane, the "tsundere"), I will not only read it, but I will make a fan comic. I'm talking a full-on, published-by-way-of-copy-machine, 8-16 page minicomic. I'll give her five chapters, since that's standard tankoubon length.
CAN YOU DO IT, TAKAHASHI? Can you appease the wishes of some no-name jackass in a different country????