The AMV Feedback Project: Reaching New Heights of Obsession!

[thefourthvine]

My annual bout of vid-meta came on early this year. Also, it's another feedback project. And, further, it's on a topic that's not going to be of great interest to many of you.

There is a specific person to blame for this, and that person is not me. I'm a totally innocent party, here. (As you will see, I fought this whole thing like - well, kind

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[thefourthvine]

Hey, I didn't watch anime at all when I started watching vids. I didn't even know for sure what it was. (Since my Discovery of Vids, vids tend to come before canon and may in fact replace canon. Vids are easier: short enough that I can re-watch a bunch of time, with helpful lyrical and musical cues to make up for my visual lameness, and a certain common "language" that persists through most of them and acts as a further help to parsing the data. Also, vids are faster: it takes a major act of will to get me in front of the TV long enough to watch a whole show, not to mention associated downloading/burning, since we don't actually have the ability to receive broadcast television. But vids you just click! And watch! It takes about five minutes!) And yet the shiny drew me in, is my point. It could draw you, too.

Don't get me wrong it was kind of interesting, but I really need to do something about my procrastination tendencies...

Can't help you there. This LJ's mission statement reads, in part, "...to further the cause of procrastination for all fangirls." It would be wrong for me to make procrastination less easy for you. *is principled*

[ratcreature]

I don't read fanfic or watch vids before I have seen all of the source if at all possible, i.e. the exceptions are things like superhero comics, but even there I bought a ton of comics and downloaded a view gigabytes more on top of that (in addition to reading overviews) to get a grip on the characters before getting seriously into the fanfic.

So for me sampling fan creations without the source is not an option. I won't even read crossovers without having watched at least some of the source, not even by my favorite authors. I mean, seeing fiction in a fandom by a favorite author has caused me to check out a series, a good example for that is Traders, I've seen a few SGA people post Traders fic, then saw an author I really like post an SGA crossover I wanted to read, which in turn caused me to watch five seasons of Traders in a marathon...

I never try any anime, because I hate the art style of both anime and manga (though I hate manga more), ever since I first saw them appearing in comic stores in the mid-80s.

[thefourthvine]

I don't read fanfic or watch vids before I have seen all of the source if at all possible, i.e. the exceptions are things like superhero comics, but even there I bought a ton of comics and downloaded a view gigabytes more on top of that (in addition to reading overviews) to get a grip on the characters before getting seriously into the fanfic.

Wow. Cool. You and I are the total polar opposites in our approaches to fanworks and canon. (I mean, for me, it's even a part of the fun, a game, to see how well I can reverse engineer the canon using only the fanworks. By the time I broke down and watched due South, I had successfully reverse engineered almost all of the Kowalski era, and for some of the eps, I'd managed to get it down to nearly a scene-by-scene recapitulation. I was still surprised by some things, but only a few. And reverse engineering is so fun!)

I never try any anime, because I hate the art style of both anime and manga (though I hate manga more), ever since I first saw them appearing in comic stores in the mid-80s.

I know for you art and style would be a massive issue, since you're so very much much much more visual and artistic than I am, but - really, anime and manga style has changed a lot since the '80s; I've seen some of the stuff from that era, and I consider it nigh unreadable/unviewable. With manga, because I am made of suck when it comes to visuals, I have to pick my canon veeeerry carefully (so I can follow it at all), but some of it is lovely. And with anime, well, it's all over the map; there are a few commonalities, but I really wouldn't say there's a single anime style any more. (Assuming there ever was. I really don't know much about early-era anime.)

Which is, of course, not in any way meant to say that you have to try anime or manga, let alone like it - not at all. Some source types are not for some people, and it's just one of those personal preferences that can't be changed.

[delurker]

With manga, because I am made of suck when it comes to visuals, I have to pick my canon veeeerry carefully (so I can follow it at all), but some of it is lovely.
So true! The FMA manga is very easy to follow, but Fruits Basket is incredibly hard. (So many people! Who often look quite similar! >.<)