Get ready for Gossip Girl - The Manga

[terry78]

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/12/11/exclusive-gossip-girl-for-your-eyes-only-manga-preview/

The ****?

 

[Mister J]

For real?

Seriously.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Wow. I've seen everything now.

Do they really think Gossip Girl's audience is the same one into Manga?

 

[Paroxysm]

You guys act like women don't read manga or something, ever heard of Shojo? More than half of all Japanese women under the age of 40 read manga regularly. Gossip Girl was also a best selling book before it was a lame tv show. I'm sure the book/tv show is a hit with all the girls in Japan.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

You guys act like women don't read manga or something, ever heard of Shojo? More than half of all Japanese women under the age of 40 read manga regularly. Gossip Girl was also a best selling book before it was a lame tv show. I'm sure the book/tv show is a hit with all the girls in Japan.

A majority of the girls I've seen who watch Gossip Girl/red the books? FAR from the Manga crowd. They are the prissy ''OH MY GOD, LIKE WHAT'S A COMIC BOOK TEEHEE?" crowd.

They'd never be caught with what's essentially a japanese comic book in their hands.

 

[Master Chief]

Expanding a medium to audiences is a foreign concept.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

I watch Gossip Girl and Naruto. Perfect.

 

[Paroxysm]

A majority of the girls I've seen who watch Gossip Girl/red the books? FAR from the Manga crowd. They are the prissy ''OH MY GOD, LIKE WHAT'S A COMIC BOOK TEEHEE?" crowd.

They'd never be caught with what's essentially a japanese comic book in their hands.

You think I don't know what? They're adapting Cecily von Ziegesar's NOVEL for MANGA FANS.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Then, do you really think Manga fans are gonna wanna read about a bunch of spoiled rich brats who do nothing but change sex partners every page? No.

 

[Silvermoth]

ha, gee looks like stereotypes are back in fashion on this board.

So it's a manga. So what? I'm sure it'll be a success, it's a recognizable product. Heaps of women read manga. I think it's interesting when a medium does things out of the ordinary and tells a Western story using an Eastern medium. Could be very interesting.

 

[katie_girl09]

A majority of the girls I've seen who watch Gossip Girl/red the books? FAR from the Manga crowd. They are the prissy ''OH MY GOD, LIKE WHAT'S A COMIC BOOK TEEHEE?" crowd.

Really now? I read Gossip Girl. I read the books even before it became a series and I own them all. And I like them. And I would, like, soooo be caught with a comic book and whatever. Like, tee hee!

Then, do you really think Manga fans are gonna wanna read about a bunch of spoiled rich brats who do nothing but change sex partners every page? No.

As opposed to what? Non-rich brats who change sexual partners every page? Aren't a lot of mangas about sex, love and romance anyway? What's your point?

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I watch Gossip Girl and Naruto. Perfect.

Poetic Chaos indeed
I'm all for expandinding into different audiences, but Gossip Girl manga? Really?

 

[Timstuff]

Almost as embarrassing as the existence of the Twilight mangas.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Why isn't this in the tv section Terry? WHY? You know better than this.

*flips table*

WTF TERRY?

Once more Terry, once more.

 

[Johann Krauss]

Well....****

 

[Watson]

AHAAHAHAHAA at magna Chuck Bass.

Plenty of girls read magna and watch GG. I'm sure it will do well.

Somewhat OT: Anyone watching this season? I kind of stopped after the episode with Serena and Trip making gooey eyes at each other. Has it gotten better? Did they f**k yet?

 

[terry78]

Why isn't this in the tv section Terry? WHY? You know better than this.

*flips table*

WTF TERRY?

Once more Terry, once more.

Because my name is Terry78, that's why.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Because my name is Terry78, that's why.

Wait, you're Terry78, not Terry. Oh man, I got mixed up. I feel like an idiot now

 

[The Lizard]

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/12/11/exclusive-gossip-girl-for-your-eyes-only-manga-preview/

The ****?

OK -- here's a question.

Most fans of anime (Japanese animation) say that just because a certain cartoon is done in the anime style, that doesn't make it anime. For example, Avatar, the Last Airbender looks very much like anime, but it apparently isn't, since it was created by and for a non-Japanese audience.

So, since this Gossip Girl comic is apparently being initially developed for a US audience and drawn by an artist who I assume is of Korean descent based on her name, is this really a "manga"?

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

OK -- here's a question.

Most fans of anime (Japanese animation) say that just because a certain cartoon is done in the anime style, that doesn't make it anime. For example, Avatar, the Last Airbender looks very much like anime, but it apparently isn't, since it was created by and for a non-Japanese audience.

So, since this Gossip Girl comic is apparently being initially developed for a US audience and drawn by an artist who I assume is of Korean descent based on her name, is this really a "manga"?

Best point on here. It will make money, but it's not legitimate manga in the sense of other prestigious volumes that were actually created in Japan.

Ex(s): Yu Yu Hakusho, Bleach, Naruto, DBZ, Inu Yasha, and many others.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

AHAAHAHAHAA at magna Chuck Bass.

Plenty of girls read magna and watch GG. I'm sure it will do well.

Somewhat OT: Anyone watching this season? I kind of stopped after the episode with Serena and Trip making gooey eyes at each other. Has it gotten better? Did they f**k yet?

Yes they have and Serena's decisions get more annoying each episode (though she should be rebounding from that after the break) and I don't like where they're taking Jenny's story, but it's still interesting enough to keep up with. Nate and Chuck have been the strongest characters this season.

 

[Alex The Great]

I watch Gossip Girl and Naruto. Perfect.

You might aswell end it

Almost as embarrassing as the existence of the Twilight mangas.

There's Twilight Mangas?

 

[Master Chief]

Yes they have and Serena's decisions get more annoying each episode (though she should be rebounding from that after the break) and I don't like where they're taking Jenny's story, but it's still interesting enough to keep up with. Nate and Chuck have been the strongest characters this season.

lol Serena's been an idiot this whole season though.

 

[Paroxysm]

OK -- here's a question.

Most fans of anime (Japanese animation) say that just because a certain cartoon is done in the anime style, that doesn't make it anime. For example, Avatar, the Last Airbender looks very much like anime, but it apparently isn't, since it was created by and for a non-Japanese audience.

So, since this Gossip Girl comic is apparently being initially developed for a US audience and drawn by an artist who I assume is of Korean descent based on her name, is this really a "manga"?

"Is this really a manga?"

That's a pretty dumb question seeing as how Yen Plus is a manga publisher and Hye Kyung Baek is a popular manga artist from Korea (who is also a dude btw).

 

[The Apocalypse]

Obviously this is the next DBZ.