Here's the video which altered the otaku cult (yes, before Cutie Honey I believe).

My story for ridicule:
Imagine some young monks trying to get in the Guinness Book of World Records by making an immense mandala as big as a soccer field. An older monk looks at the young monks while they are drawing and says: “You must have a ridicule state of mind if you want to make a mandala as big as that”.

And talking about inventing new images for radicals, I always wondered why nobody picked up on my (brilliant!) alternative for the shelf primitive: NBA (players)! (http://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/1776). Guess nobody here likes basketball......

"Sun Eye Crotchet" the hero of the Miami Vice manga.

Calling 曼 "The Manga Primitive" probably makes more sense than making up some word for it. Manga is a word that is concrete, so good stories. And it follows the established practice of calling part of the Drum kanji the "Drum Primitive", and part of the kanji for Head "The Head Primitive".

And it even extends to Mandara, which some art scholars credit with influencing the art form which is expressed today in Manga. Comic Books were a recent invention in the West, but they were part of literature back to the very first written matter in Japan.

I just imagined some weird tapestry in hindu style (somewhat like a mandala), a radiant sun enclosing a crotch with an elonged eye covering the most crucial spot (hehe). Worked flawessly.
It's quite -loose- if you try to stick it somewhere with water, and if your awesome mystical state of mind consists on visualizing this mandala instead of a regular one, I'd say that's a pretty -ridicoulous- state of mind
Mandala is a good component in my opinion.

.... and by the time you read through this whole thread, it's all a moot point, since everything will have been reinforced sufficiently.


"loose" for 漫 obviously sucks as a keyword, though. Heisig musta been trippin'.

hereticalrants Wrote:.... and by the time you read through this whole thread, it's all a moot point, since everything will have been reinforced sufficiently.


"loose" for 漫 obviously sucks as a keyword, though. Heisig musta been trippin'.

Fluidity, symbolized by the water element, is the loose, non-rigid nature of mind as it transforms into the mandala.

So handsome, witty, and wise you are, dearest bodhisamaya.

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hereticalrants Wrote:"loose" for 漫 obviously sucks as a keyword, though. Heisig musta been trippin'.

How d'ya figure?

Since it's a form of art, I had the image of a painting on a wall with pac-man (日) over the crouch of this guy


For ridicule, Dhalsim (my state of mind) is pointing and laughing at the painting.

For loose, Paris Hilton is throwing a glass of water at the painting.


I just try to go with the first image that comes to mind (in this case the things in bold), and throw the radicals in with it. I try to keep it to one cohesive 'frame'. I thought the idea of "stories" was to put this into words, but some people's seem to literally be stories that would be more like a 15-second animation with a script rather than a simple image representing the character.