Manga vs Western Comics

Manga and anime - get some exposure.

Expected this to be about Japanese comics.

Oh cmon, MANGA is so much better

Manga may come to life with this :D

When I was at school, I watch hundreds of titles every year, but after some time, when my taste became more mature, I've started to be much pickier about anime and usually just read manga. Even with my primary career as a software engineer (and product manager for now), I love to draw, and it's always fun to see some extremely detailed manga art. It inspires me to draw something too, but I know that manga authors' work conditions are worse than in the shittiest startup you can im

Manga is more culturally developed, but it's just that it makes less money

The word comic comes with expectations about graphics style and content, same as manga has some expectations (through that has more variety of stuff). That is quite practical for people like me who don't like the comic style, but do enjoy differently painted pictures with bubbles.Does not mean it must somehow inherently superior, it is more of attempt to sell to people who are aware of how it looks like usually and that they usually dont like it.

This was a interesting read! Thanks for sharing! I wonder if there is something like this that speaks to manga.

With consistent representation of characters, are we now on the precipice of a Cambrian explosion of manga/graphic novels/comics?

Korean entertainment industry does well at exploiting what works. Korean webtoons are short, quick, updated frequently, accessible, easy to read on the phone, everyone has a mobile, and that is what is done. Not to mention that there is a culture of translating everything into English as quickly as possible in Korea.In contrast, mangas are often bought in book form (which are less and less attractive as time goes on), cost more, less accessible, and have a lower update frequency. Japanese e