grab bag of randomness~

[askerian]

-Naruto manga: Once again, I have nothing much to say except for eeeee uzumaki/namikaze family. ;^; waugh.


-Bweee!! They're making a sequel to Avatar the Last Airbender -- and I don't mean a second live-action movie, I mean the original authors are coming back with the story of the next avatar after Aang, who is a girl. She looks really badass from this... okay, this lone concept picture which might be totally misteading. But! Water Tribe avatar! IN A STEAMPUNK WORLD. AND PEOPLE PROTESTING BENDERS. be still my heart. God please make it not suck. *_*

Q: The new “Avatar” is a woman. What inspired you to change the sex of the protagonist of the series?

Michael DiMartino: It’s not so much about changing because we had Avatar Kyoshi before Aang. We’d established that the Avatar can be male or female and we just thought let’s explore one of those more in depth, because Kyoshi was a popular character with a lot of fans and it seemed like a great opportunity to not retread what we’d done with Aang, who was a great hero, we all loved him, but we really wanted to try something different. And we have so many great female fans out there, who really responded to Katara in the first series, we thought we have the fan base who are really going to enjoy seeing the Avatar be a female.

Konietzko: Mike and I, we love those characters too, and we’ve encountered countless fans who are male who really like those characters too. We just don’t subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can’t have an action series led by a female character. It’s kinda nonsense to us.

nnngh ♥♥♥♥♥♥


-... no, you know what, i'll make a separate post for this one. >______> i've got drabbly silliness on the brain.

Comments

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

I usually read at OneManga. Was DEVASTATED that they're closing. Very much wish they would open up a pay-site if they're so worried about profit. I wants my manga! D: D: D:

[askerian]

uh, where did you read they were worried about profit? they're closing because the manga publishers are talking lawsuits at them, there's not exactly a choice there. if you mean the manga publishers should open a paysite, well, perhaps, but that's not gonna happen for a while, and also it would be way too easy to save the pics and redistribute them anyway so in the end that wouldn't change much for them.

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

Sorry, misplaced phrasing. I did mean the publishers. I thought it might work like ePubs for eBooks, but I'm really not very familiar with the technology/whathaveyou. I just know I'm greedy and don't want to wait a year or more for the (lost the word here..) booky things to come out.