Another all-nighter... NOT
I guess I just can't take it tonight. Will finish the entry I am editing now (Shotaro Ishinomori) and go to bed.
Truth is I wasted a lot of time searching for various information and in the end watched more than half of the movie Tokiwa-so no seishun, based on the events and persons who worked for Osamu Tezuka in his atelier in 50's. Such a nice movie - beautiful piano music, too. It was very nostalgic; although I did not live at those times, somehow it makes me long for them coming back, the old days of paper and ink and no computer graphic. Back then, it seemed so innocent and sincere. I suppose fandom was nothing like today, too. I wonder whether any of those early manga authors has ever guessed what phenomenon would manga become. I bet none of them could have been able to imagine today's fandom, so passionate and constantly feuding and sprouting pages and pages of essays on this-or-that theory or pairing. It scares me sometimes, the amount of time and passion fandom invests into all this. And it makes me long for the old lost days of ink and paper.
Truth is I wasted a lot of time searching for various information and in the end watched more than half of the movie Tokiwa-so no seishun, based on the events and persons who worked for Osamu Tezuka in his atelier in 50's. Such a nice movie - beautiful piano music, too. It was very nostalgic; although I did not live at those times, somehow it makes me long for them coming back, the old days of paper and ink and no computer graphic. Back then, it seemed so innocent and sincere. I suppose fandom was nothing like today, too. I wonder whether any of those early manga authors has ever guessed what phenomenon would manga become. I bet none of them could have been able to imagine today's fandom, so passionate and constantly feuding and sprouting pages and pages of essays on this-or-that theory or pairing. It scares me sometimes, the amount of time and passion fandom invests into all this. And it makes me long for the old lost days of ink and paper.