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Not against the medium I consume it.

But it occurred to me that there seems to be a lot more exposure to anime and manga largely thanks to services like crunchyroll and manga reader services, this includes physical sales as well.

It's just that you'd think say, Superman would be more stupidly popular since everyone knows who he is than someone such as Lelouch from Code Geass.

Is it because comics just doesn't have the same spark with the younger generation? Or is it because there are a billion different issues of comics so it makes manga more streamlined?

I would like to know your thoughts as I am quite curious about this phenomenon, since even in the early 2000s I was into anime, and you could get your fix from non legit services via the Internet, but I'm sure as shit it didn't hit this mainstream until the mid 2010s and now the roaring 2020s.

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is creativity and risk in anime that no western media company would ever touch, even if its disagreeable or just shitty. Western stuff is cookie cutter slop aimed at checking all the boxes of a profitable product.

Western media seems to only push things that fit the mold of an investor worthy price of art. Anime goes for a "throw things at the wall" approach so things that are a gamble get made. I think its an issue of scale, anime has a smaller market so the stakes of fucking up massively are survivable while having a huge farm of original indy stories dreaming of being an anime to source from. Western stuff dose not not have the pool of creativity to lift from as scaring or offending investors with risk gets you fired. Triple A gaming seems to reached the same point, bureaucracy and safety prevents new ideas that are risky or they come out bland and boring. Without risk you stagnate and people think your boring. Animation is cheap enough to take risk but has less returns since the market is smaller.

TL;DR: Western media is too bloated to take the creative risk needed and they got to throw buckets of cash to prop up Ol'Reliable season 20 instead.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Don’t worry Blackstone recently bought the largest e-manga company so we can all enjoy cookie cutter slop.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Investment firms, the 5th horseman.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

there will still be those that shove out incest rape fantasy anime.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Game of Thrones Season 8 already came out.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

smells like live action