Picture Perfect Paranoia

This is an advanced notice that I won’t be around the intranets for about 2 weeks due to Finals Week coming up.

See ya next month, folks!

Apologies for showing this late gesture of appreciation (due to RL), but many thanks to those who have participated in the survey I’ve created 9 days ago. Now let’s look at the results.

My parents…
	Response Percent	Response Count
Are a bigger Otaku than I am!	2.7%	1
Also read manga. We talk and share the stuff~	5.4%	2
Don’t know I read manga at all. Shhh, it’s a secret hobby	10.8%	4
Know I read manga, but it’s not something we talk about…	62.2%	23
Know I read manga and are repulsed by it and trying to convince me to stop	8.1%	3
Doesn’t know what manga is even though I tried to explain it a million times	0.0%	0
Thinks all manga is for children	10.8%	4
answered question		37
skipped question		0

It would seem that the majority of the respondents are at an understanding with their parents, apparently keeping their interest something not to be talked about in the open. I understand where you’re coming from. Especially when you live in a country that looks as a medium like manga as the Japanese equivalent of an American comic book. Sure, some of the manga that were being pandered ti the mainstream contain comedy, hentai moments, and the like, but a deeper probe into the subculture unearthens a yet to be discovered wealth of possibilities. They have been used:

• as a medium to introduce and familiarize the young generation with the Scriptures of the Bible
• as a medium to tackle the sensitive issue of teenage pregnancy

These and other uses suggest that manga already penetrated mainstream culture, but has yet to be freed from the stigma of being “just another import”.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Stolen from MangaUpdates, because I have nothing worthwhile to post on this day.

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