With E3 in full swing, the console war has never been so fierce, with fan(boy)s all over the internet debating and quarreling about who won the show.
The conflict has become so heated that it's making it's appearance more and more often in various instances of the pop culture.
But after all the debating and the arguing, let's step away for a few minutes from the "serious business" to give a look at something a little more light-hearted.
The manga Mel Kano by Towa Oshima, is all about the increasingly popular online relationships between young Japanese people. In this internet-based setting, could the console war really not appear?
The whole chapter 16 (that you can read translated in English here) is about the conflict between the fanboys of two console developers named So*y and Nin*do. I doubt you need me to explain who those slightly censored names refer to.
Being set in Japan, Microsoft has a smaller role, but look towards the end of the chapter for a surprise :D
Give it a look if you want a bit of light-hearted fun after the E3 conferences marathon, or if you want to see a Nunchuk used as an actual Nunchaku. Hopefully you won't see yourself too much reflected in the characters portrayed. But even if you do, it's all in good fun, after all.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The Console War in Manga form
Author:
Giuseppe Nelva
Time:
5:06 PM
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Tags: console war, games, manga, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, parody, pop culture, PS3, PSP, Sony, videogames, Wii, Xbox 360
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