Dramacon Volume 3 Book

This series has not aged well.

I read the first two volumes right in the thick of my weaboo stage, but never got around to reading the last book. A recently made acquaintance forced it on me the other day, and here I am.

The biggest flaw in the book, is how it expounds the virtue of Original English Manga. There's this one particular author who's used as a success story; best selling, mobs of fanS, they're turning her mangas into a movie!!

This angle is understandable, considering A) DramaCon is a OEL, and B) It was published by TokyoPop, the only manga company to bother with OELs.

Oh, and TokyoPop has since gone bankrupt and shut down operations in North America. Other OEL artists who got contracts with other companies, suffered similar fates.

So that only shows how dated the series is; it comes from a time when people genuinely believed they could get into the business. Now, as far as I know, it's more if you want your stuff published, build up a fan following online, and then go from there (See: Teahouse).

But I digress.

Other low points of the manga includes pairing up the only dark skinned characters (which is just... wat), overwrought storyline where a mom almost disowns her daughter for wanting to accept a publishing contract that she was offered, and the general "pocky is the best, lol yaoi" etc etc silliness of weaboo culture.

Also, the romance where she keeps getting mad at the guy for no reason and running away? And the awful art where a side profile of her face is just an eye + blank space + a point that's supposed to be her nose.

DramaCon is a series with very limited appeal, and I apparently fall out of it's target audience.