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.

  • Mr_Blott
    51·
    2 months ago

    I’m not into comics

    I can read a lot of manga right now.

    Pls to explain how manga is not comics

    • ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 months ago

      Comics = American

      Manga = Japanese

      Generally that’s the accepted connotations, even though the words are technically the same.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Those were the terms OP used lol. But yeah, generally people view comics as western rather than a catch all term.