From: kishik@parkcity.ne.jp   
      
   "Ping Kuo"  wrote in message   
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   > In article <3pp0gbFbdogaU1@individual.net>, Manbow Papa   
   >  wrote:   
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   >> "Ping Kuo"  wrote in message   
   >> news:250920051703259425%removeantispam*pkuo@earhlink.net...   
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   >> > worrying about the outcome in a fictional manga story is a waste of   
   >> > time, IMO, fictional world never end up wrong, it is the real world   
   >> > that does.   
   >   
   >> Come on, why do you dare to read a novel, manga or anything   
   >> that is merely a fiction, then? If you don't care whatever happens   
   >> in the fictional world? I enjoy *creation* of artists when I read,   
   >> watch, listen and/or play their works as far as I could have an   
   >> interesting experience.   
   >   
   > we read our favor manga not because to find out what happen in the end,   
   > but for the "journey" to reach it, I certainly still anticpated   
   > upcoming release of my favor manga, but I will never loss sleep about   
   > the ending, manga is too commericalized that you can hardly find a   
   > mangaka dare to do "bad end" story, that is why I find the earlier   
   > Saimon Fumi story so refreshing, however, as she aged and became more   
   > successful, she has also soften and her ending had also become common   
   > place.   
      
   Aha, by "outcome" you meant "ending". I agree with you   
   about prearranged ending. I'm interested more in the process   
   than the ending as you do. The whole process is called a "story".   
      
   >   
   > novel and art house movie had the possibility of bad ending, while in   
   > the cutthroat business of manga there is virtually none what so ever,   
   > the closest comparsion I can give would be TV programming, so whenever   
   > we start a manga story, 50% of the possible story outcome are already   
   > out of the window,   
      
   In case of Nodame Cantabile, I don't care who will end   
   up with whom. But if Chiaki and Nodame will end up being   
   separated eventually, the manga should be disappointing   
   to many readers. But I think the manga has a great value   
   already. Its satire, for one thing, looks almost like a surprising   
   disclosure from insiders of the music community. A while   
   back, in an NHK's classic music program actually, it was   
   told that Nodame attracts people in the community.   
      
   >   
   > of course, this is not about hard core horror manga, when bad end are   
   > expected.  but in that case 50% of ending is also closed, just in the   
   > opposite direction.   
      
   I have never anticipated stereotypical conclusion in any   
   episode of "Hyakki Yakou Shou". Still the manga is strangely   
   charming and scaring if showing a tendency of a bishounen   
   title.   
      
   >   
   > now, wouldn't it be great/shocking if 20th century boys concluded in a   
   > bad end?  never will happen.   
      
   If human beings will be extinct by the virus at the end of 20th   
   CB, I don't get what Urasawa-san intend to do with the manga   
   at the first place.   
      
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         / Ishikawa Kazuo /   
      
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