>literally only one genre allowed in US comics
>Idiots: "Why are comics failing while manga is thriving?"
Yeah, I wonder why.
Capeshit is Killing Comics
>literally only one genre allowed in US comics
>Idiots: "Why are comics failing while manga is thriving?"
Yeah, I wonder why.
so comics should all be shounen instead?
Shounen is a very small portion of manga. Capes are the vast majority of comics.
>yet another indie shill gets uppity because nobody wants to read their favorite future school shooter's manifesto
Seinen also makes up a big chunk of the popular manga in the west.
pretty sure its moe or shit like pretty cure that takes up a huge portion of the eastern market.
shounen aint nearly as profitable.
the pretty cure pyschopaths are the same as the genshin impact and gacha troupe and spend thousands of bucks on meaningless mercantile paraphernalia.
1. Most Japanese comics aren't Shonen.
2. Shonen isn't a genre, it's a demographic, basically boys between 9 and 17. People would kill for the variety even that subset has within it. There are a bunch of superhero stories, yeah. There's also everything from detective mysteries to sports dramas to slapstick screwball comedies to sci fi, horror, general action/adventure stories, sword and sandal fantasy, medieval western fantasy, Chinese-inspired wuxia fantasy, and so on.
The idea of Shonen being its own genre with has always been 100% a total fabricated invention of a handful of "shonen" fans circa the turn of the millennium: particularly in North America and Western Europe. This is predicated almost entirely around a total lack of basic historical awareness of wider manga industry/artistic history beyond or outside of a certain and VERY narrow set of mega-popular Shonen titles of the last ~30 years. Particularly those made in the wake of Dragon Ball attempting to cash in on its popularity.
Most of what people mistake for "Shonen genre tropes" (arc-based villains, secret fighting techniques that characters' scream out the names of, lengthy training storylines, themes of friendship and adventure, etc.) fall into one of three basic categories:
A) Broadly used martial arts fantasy storytelling tropes that DB (as a martial arts fantasy story) likewise made use of. Secret/forbidden fighting techniques with fancy names, long training sagas, heated rivalries between fighters, and even things like various side/ancillary characters all gathered around watching and commenting on a major fight as it happens. Fans aren't recognizing this stuff due to their ignorance of/inexperience with other martial arts stories outside of DB.
B) Are simply things more specific to DB itself that it helped popularize (and not even necessarily invent) that other Shonen franchises made afterward just blatantly copied simply to ride off of DB's coattails. Things like arc-based villain story structure or transformation spam.
And C) Things that aren't even present within DB itself all that much that most fans simply retroactively project onto it after the fact that are more prominent and more of a thing in other franchises made after DB had ended. Things like the focus around "friendship" and camaraderie and whatnot. Look all you want in DB, outside of maybe a couple of key moments, this stuff REALLY just isn't fricking there and never has been.
>yet another gay who thinks Big 2 = all of americas comics
There are plenty non-capeshit comics from the Big 2 too.
Pic related came out this month.
do the looney tunes comic even get ripped? that might be why no one talks about them or the scooby doo books that DC does
Marvel however only does Cape comic and nothing else
>"There are plenty non-capeshit comics from the Big 2 too."
>posts a fricking Looney Tunes book off all things
Y'know, you don't have to pour salt in the wound.
Don't worry there's plenty of other stuff, too. Like generic edgelord trash. Plenty of that to go around.
how many times do you gays need this explained to you
>big 2 comics
dying
>non big-2 floppies
not doing much better or worse than usual, but will get hurt by the long-term collateral damage of big 2 comics/lcs-es dying
>scholastic/comics for kids in grade school
doing fine
>webtoons
doing great
>manga
doing great
comics as a medium are fine, it's just the distribution structure/genre of big 2 capeshit that's on the way out.
>it's a scigay thread
comics are already dead
There are plenty of non-capeshit comics.
Capeshit isn't why US comics are failing, it's because the US produces terrible artists/writers/everything.
>There are plenty of non-capeshit comics.
Indies don't count.
There isn't even any of that!
Ok then read non-capeshit not published by indies like conan
I don't give a shit about Conan or fantasy slop in general. Also, didn't ask.
>manga is thriving
Anyone got the numbers for manga that doesn't have an anime or video game adaptation?
Thats like completely different correlated markets though.