Art sketch

Pony

Daily sketch in drawing class today. Got it done within 10 minutes.

I find it a bit hard to talk about new subjects in my blog. Bleh.

I wonder if there’s people like me that kinda dislike the new people to manga. You know them. They read Tokyopop manga, Naruto, Bleach, and any long series/only the licensed manga series in a bookstore. And then they like it tremendously. [When infact, the series has no real plot value and it goes on and on forever. ] But I do like some licensed series like Chobits, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Pet shop of Horrors, there are many I used to like, and dislike. I once read the first volume of Naruto. It was funny, but the rest of the volumes were dissatisfying to me.  Not like anyone can recall the ninja sterotype again. Another one was bleach. I really thought it was cool and all, but after the 100th episode/15th manga volume, I gave that series up straight away. It’s totally illogical for Ichigo to still hold on to life after being brutally whipped by some espada [ What's with all the Spanish names after the 10th volume or something? ] that is way higher in rank. But then again, most story plots like that make the main character “invincible ” that it totally destroys the whole plot/the reader is screwed.

But anyways, I kinda wish I could tell newbies to the manga sensation, to not always relie  on the bookstore for manga.  Every day, there is a new manga series on the web, current manga being translated, and way more varieties of manga to be read on the internet. Now I don’t promote mangas that are already licensed and all that crap that made crunchyroll “not fun” [ As in, buy the manga rather than reading a licensed one online, but then again, I'll only buy a manga if it's really good. Heck, go sue people who put free movies and video episodes online. ], but the internet is really, a bigger source of manga than a Barnes N’ Noble. But then again, it’s still quite easy to read licensed stuff online anyways. [ I won't go that much into that topic since I assume it's been discussed epic-ly a thousand times over. ]

Advantages: Free, bigger pages, updates quicker than licensed ones.

Disadvantages: Font may be messy/ scan messy, sites like mangafox.com have too many ads on them

Now, how to move the new generation of readers online…

Hah, I guess it wasn’t that hard to talk.

~Crystal