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  • July 1, 2020 at 4:03 pm #174263
    VinzingerG

      Let’s have a discussion on Western Storytelling and Eastern Storytelling. Like for example:
      How do Easterners and Westerners tell stories?

      What are the Tropes and Cliches they mostly use?

      What are their Strongsuits?

       

      • This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by VinzingerG.
      July 1, 2020 at 4:10 pm #174268
      VinzingerG

        Strongsuits:

        -Eastern Storytelling:

        Freedom of expression and creativity

        -Western Storytelling:

        I don’t know

        July 1, 2020 at 5:13 pm #174292
        VinzingerG

          As for the Troupes, these are all the troupes I can think of

          -Eastern Storytelling:

          Battle Shonen Troupe

          Loly Troupe

          Waifu Troupe

          Harem Troupe

          Moe Troupe

          Ecchi Troupe

          -Western Storytelling:

          Popular Kid being a Jock and/or Rich Kid Troupe

          -Both:

          Superhero Trope(Both Eastern Superhero Trope and Western Storytelling Trope)

          Fantasy Trope

          July 1, 2020 at 5:20 pm #174294
          VinzingerG

            I remember making a facebook post to the Facebook Groups that I’m at about that. One person made an excellent response which is this:

            For Example.

            How Easterners tell a story:

            Buddhism, Taoism, and Shinto play a crucial role although the Easterners didn’t use them as a means of preach, but the same way that Tolkien puts Christianity in his stories. They decided to make their stories into pure growth and they’re not afraid to have their heroes lose battles and show their heroes training.

            How Westerners tell a story:

            They never have their heroes lose a fight although they do lose in a fight for only a little bit. Some of these heroes never train except for some heroes.

            July 2, 2020 at 5:02 am #174405
            Anonymous

              By western, I think you’re speaking specifically about American comics and by eastern, you seem to be talking specifically about Japanese manga.

              Franco-Belgian comics are aggressively different to comics like Marvel/DC, and comics in Korea differ greatly to Japanese one.

              There are a huge variety of comics, including mystery, historical, comedy and so on.

              The Adventures of Tintin, Lucky Luke, Asterix & Obelix, Boule et Bill, Gaston Lagaffe and so much more are all popular ‘western’ comics from Europe.

              I think it’s incredibly unfair to generalise western comics by limiting them to superhero comics, which are a very American thing. Same with eastern comics, I think it’s unfair to generalise them based off of one country’s works.

              All comics have their strengths, weaknesses (some more than others), tropes and genres, and vary greatly depending on the country’s history, culture, religion and whatever else.

              I would suggest changing your title to ‘American storytelling and Japanese storytelling’ because that seems to be what you’re referring to based on the comments you have made.

              For the record, I thoroughly enjoy American superheroes, although mainly the older stories, not so much the new ones, as well as a variety of manga.

               

              July 2, 2020 at 8:00 am #174429
              VinzingerG

                Good point and sorry about that. I didn’t pay much since I’m not good at paying attention well. But still, sorry and you’re right it’s kinda unfair well actually god level unfair because I generalized Western and Eastern Storytelling to American and Japanese Storytelling because the Western and Eastern Storytelling that I mostly pay attention to is American Storytelling and Japanese Storytelling. Thank you for making good points and reminding me. Let me see if I can rename it. If I can’t might as well make a remake of this topic which will be named Amercian Storytelling and Japanese Storytelling instead.

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                July 3, 2020 at 5:58 am #174800
                Anonymous

                  That’s alright, don’t worry about it. Thank you for understanding my point ^^

                  July 4, 2020 at 3:51 am #175159
                  sundog

                    Does Eastern storytelling just mean all Asia or some wider or more narrow region?

                    What category does European storytelling fit into?

                     

                    In any case– Western storytelling:

                    -School isn’t cool.  Being stupid is the best!

                    -Solve all problems by either killing your enemy, or standing back as they are killed miraculously by something else, so you don’t need to do it, and you can pretend to feel bad about it.

                    July 4, 2020 at 7:37 am #175180
                    VinzingerG

                      <p style=”text-align: left;”>That’s a good question and a good point although I unfairly generalized Western Storytelling to American Storytelling and Eastern Storytelling to Japanese Storytelling because I mostly pay more attention to them not everything.</p>

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