User blog comment:Zaffie/Worst News For A Long Time (or, Everyone Feel Sad Please)/@comment-930988-20110401192237/@comment-1839575-20110404221431

Ugh, I hate how everyone likes the film. It makes me sad and depressed. But, hey, each to their own. I'm just a book lover.

I don't hate EVERY anime or manga... for example, Miyazaki's work as a general rule I adore (the exception is, of course, Howl...) and even though I haven't found a manga that I like YET, I'm sure I will.

Yup, I know that lots of cultures read books backwards, and I don't have a problem with them at all. It probably is insulting, but IF I was living in one of those places, or even visiting, I'd obviously be a lot more courteous about what I called their literature. I only call them backwards books because I live in Australia, and so it's easy to identify the books by the way you read them, instead of calling them manga, which, as you said, is a generalisation and could apply to things I like... for example, my friend's awesome drawings could also be called manga. So I just find calling them backwards books is a quick and easy way to make people understand what I am talking about.