Manga is more accessible
and has a wider variety. More new IP too.
Back in the early 90s and 80s you could get 4 comic books for one hour minimum wage,
Today you can get only 1 for minimum wage in most states.
Comics are a luxury item. Its not needed. Rent, bills, utilities, gas, car insurance, food and everything is 4x times and more than they were back then also, with pay not even doubling what it was back then.
so why waste a lot of money on something not needed when you have thousands of free options in front of you.
Also people werent paying high prices for phone bills and there was no internet bill.
People really need to learn to look beyond Marvel & DC.I've actually been finding lately that the tie-in/adaptation comics that I always assumed were as bad as any other adaptation can be surprisingly decent, and much less prone to the continuity problem.
Another BIG reason. Look at the dialogue in Mangas, mostly kept short with big fonts. In comics you have characters with 10-20 bubbles with an essays worth of dialogue. Kids today have short attention spans, and have no time for that shit
IDW's Metal Gear Solid comics, for example, were a nice blend of the original game, ideas from the remake and a smattering of its own original ideas. With an art style that's really reminiscent of the original game's concept art and stuff. It even had a couple of panels where stuff that was just sorta talked about in the source is actually acted out. Just a really good companion piece.
I read those when they came out. I recall liking the writing, but finding the art style somewhat difficult to comprehend in certain panels.That was one of only two gripes I had with them. They went for a strictly no-outlines kind of technique and also went monochrome on most of the pages, so a couple of pages were visually confusing. But for the most part, it worked.
Its not too hard to figure out, really, he said. Theres a lot of dedication, passion, and craft in manga comics. And thats missing, almost entirely, from the Big Two. Marvel and DC still run the store here. They still are the market leaders. And unfortunately, there is no variety there. Theres nothing really different. Theres not something for everybody the way there is in manga.
I mean, in Japanese manga theres golf comics. Theres not one comic about golf. Theres multiple [manga] about golf. And Ive made reference on these videos to one of my favorite manga, which is about fishing. Its just about fishing. Its not about vampires fishing on another planet or witches fishing or fishing after a zombie apocalypse. This is about guys fishing. Surf casting and whatever. Fishing from boats, fishing on the shore, fishing from the banks of rivers, and the stories are fascinating, and beautifully drawn, and beautifully realized.
But here, what do we get? We get superheroes and poorly done superheroes. There really isnt anything else at the mainstream companies. Its superheroes, superheroes, superheroes.
Why, why would you want to read this crap if you had a choice of reading a genre that you prefer, be it horror, or mystery, or espionage, or golf? When theres only one flavor in American comics, of course Japanese comics are going to win the day.
He went on, The biggest problem here is that all I see American comic book creators, the people in the mainstream do, is complain about manga. Well, why dont you learn from manga? Why dont you look at what manga is doing and do that? And I dont mean draw people with huge eyes and lots of speed lines. Do more varied stories, do more complex stories. Put more effort into the artwork. Put more effort into the craft.
While he thinks comic book writers ought to look toward manga, he doesnt mean just copy it. If they try to copy it just like they did in the 90s here in the United States, theyll just get it all wrong. They dont know what theyre doing. They have no interest. Theyre just complain about it, as if thats going to get them any more readers. . . I dont see the mainstream, the Big Two ever catching up, he said.
Also isekai isn't really a manga thing. That's an anime/Light Novel thing.
There's tons of isekai manga. It's just that the most popular isekai animes are LN adaptations.
Unless we're using piracy as an example of something that increases sales (which it could be an argument for), then piracy isn't a factor since the whole rationale about manga being bigger than comics is due to the higher sales and revenue ie paid copies.
Original manga? Most isekai manga I've seen are also adaptations to the LN and don't seem to last very long, usually itself just an accessory to the anime.
Neither the title or the OP mentioned sales.
You seem to have just thrown that out there because?
And who says comic sales are even bad? Infact right now many comics are getting 3rd or even 4th printings. I know this because I am not just talking about my butt, I am actively buying comics and also watching anime.
Yeah. A new one launched just this March called Goze Hotaru which I've tacked onto my reading list but haven't gotten around to it yet.
If you stretch the definition of "original" and "manga" a little to include doujins, there's enough for several lifetimes.
How do you quantify manga being bigger than comics then? I remember this whole concept of manga becoming bigger than comics happened after articles showing just how much more manga was selling than comics. Before then people just default assumed comics was bigger than manga.
I don't know that it is bigger. But is it more popular with kids is a different thing.
How do you know this? You ask kids what they are into and they say some anime or manga.
Also manga is better at capturing motion of an action scene than the still art of an American comic.Well, the techniques are different. The above doesn't really use many such techniques that I know of, but consider for example how many comic book characters wear capes, which naturally trail behind them and imply motion. Or you'll frequently see multiple characters reacting at different speeds so that the full reaction is captured in one panel.
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In any case, one of the reasons for this is that manga is more visibly varied. Yes, shonen is the main bigshot among mangas but there are still a lot of other genres that are big and even among shonen there are a variety of different premises and genres.Got to give japan props on this one....they got me to read a manga about creating a manga in bakuman. Its got good art, goofy bad romances, but dammit it was entertaining. Well the one arc was a little weak, but at least it didn't last forever. I also really got into act-age, but that one got canned because the writer was a creep, but yeah....good manga about a girl acting the hell out of everyone.
Also manga is better at capturing motion of an action scene than the still art of an American comic.
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Because modern comics suck. Spiderman has been suffering for what, 10 years?
Plus nothing really matters when everyone who dies comes back or they find some stupid way of retconning everything (flashpoint).
A bud of mine has been showing me some older stuff that is legit fun but modern issues are just not interesting.
Theres absolutely American books with this level of motioneeeeeh, one "issue" I have with american comics from the ones i've seen is that it feels like the impact is skipped and it goes straight to the aftermath. It's more of a preference thing, but still
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Also that first page you showed doesn't even have any backgrounds or a story... I cant even tell what's happening on the page. Its well drawn but its not a great sequential art page.
That's exactly the same thing. "Parent buys thing, kid gets to use it without forking over any money as they have none"I dont see how you arent getting this. Parents are far more likely to subscribe to streaming services that a kid can take advantage of than they are to buy comics a kid can take advantage of. Like orders of magnitude more likely.
And yet none of that supports the claim that anime is free. Those anime are free in a select number of streaming services in a select number of countries. The other thousands of anime require a fee from someone. The claim "anime is free" is radically different from "oh those 2 or 3 anime or free" as you willfully ignore the vast majority.
We have come full circle. Yes, anime is free when you pirate it.
eeeeeh, one "issue" I have with american comics from the ones i've seen is that it feels like the impact is skipped and it goes straight to the aftermath. It's more of a preference thing, but still
I see that but thats gonna depend on the artist as well. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7a5f00d0.jpgOk yeah that one's much better
This is the same artists draws some impacts