DatYuriThough wrote...
Prism was good. Sad what happened to it given the story was nice and it developed nicely.
Don't get your hopes up about Stretch. It's a bit of a slap to the face to the people who liked the Yuri from Prism. Not a bad Manga though.
Stretch has had some light GL subtext though. I wouldn't say that it's a slap in the face but I'm still hoping we get some development with Keiko and Ran. I suppose if they don't end up dating then that would be a slap in the face (for yuri fans at least). Just need to wait for more chapters.
Lughost wrote...
I'm reading it and I love it.
Good, because it's cancelled and never coming back ;_;
shadowhawk69 wrote...
Have you read Citrus? That's pretty good too
Yeah, I've been reading it. Imported the first two volumes about a week ago.
DatYuriThough wrote...
brok3n butterfly wrote...
Ammy wrote...
>apparently he was accused of tracing
With there being so many different artists making manga I'm sure some styles will look similar and one artist might be inspired by another. An accusation alone isn't enough to make an artist give up drawing. Are tracing accusations common to begin with?
The thing is he traced from was some well-known photographs of buildings and characters, once his publishing company found out it gave the series and them a bad name. They stopped it as a form of damage control regardless of the accuracy of the allegations. It sucks but that's business. And I'm fairly sure they aren't too common, that's why such an uproar came of it.
The other problem is that it goes against the idea of art: You're expected to create your own art and not steal from someone else, which it effectively was. It's one thing to look at something and go "Oh that looks nice, I'll take inspiration from it" but what he did was take the image, copy it and then alter it slightly to try and get away with it. Which in the eyes of the publishing community, was wrong of him to do, so just being accused of that got them a lot of bad press.
I don't even care if he did trace though. Well, unless he literally traced the whole entire thing. Which he didn't. The guy still has plenty of skill and goddammit, he knew how to draw a good yuri manga. I wish I could see the exact images in question though. I think he said that he did use the images as references but didn't trace them.