"Asian-Nordic media share this ability to shift from tone-to-tone within a single work, while americans offer seem obsessed with this idea of tonal consistency, where each work has to fit neatly into a tonal box or audience become confused by it. With Jansson, the adjacency of zany comedy and melancholy, of short gags and long adventures, of simple drawings and complex emotions, it's these very contradictions that empower the work." - matttt - comic & manga history
"Tove had first visited Japan in 1971, when the books were first being printed there, and she noted the similarities between finnish and japanese culture. Upon release, the japanese public embraced the moomins in a way, the same things that seem to alienate american readers, the cuteness, the siliness, the mixture of genres appealed to the japanese public." - matttt - comic & manga history
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