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Agente42 on 30 July 2018
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DonFerrari said:
HomokHarcos said:

Agree that is one thing I like about manga over Amerian comics. For example I like Batman and Spider-Man, but I would never be able to read through them because they go on for decades and a whole bunch of different. Whereas the two manga I want to read (Ghost in the Shell and Sanctuary) are much smaller and contained.

Sanctuary is fantastic, best manga I've ever read.

Stuart23 said:

For comics, I think western comics are as diverse as manga,you just need to see outside the box of Marvel/DC.

For animations, the thing is that those different types of anime reached the mainstream audience and have its own dedicated fanbase while western animation is still having a hard time leaving the usual market. Big animation channels like Disney, Cartoon Network and Nick invest a lot on their usual comedy shows because that is were the easy money are and it is where they know there is an audience. You can find western animation taking different genres but those usually fall into the "niche audience" kind of thing and hardly reach the mainstream.

Please show me all the gay couples on Comics, transex, comics about writting comics, comics about playing wheelchair basketball, about hunting for food, mob, cycling, playing go or chess, etc.

At least in Brazil, nothing outside of heroes comics are know, but all these mangas are well know in Brazil.

Did you read Will Eisner, Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Maus? Maus won a Pulitzer. Vertigo ? Alison Bechdel? She won the NY Times nonfiction award, man. Everything is American comics. We talked about mainstream comic books , Japanese and american it was limited. All comics have genre and are diversity, but what is bringing money, real money in shonen jump is a One Piece, was naruto in its time, etc. A cut in the Marvel / DC universe to say that American comics is limited is not knowing the same. Not knowing that it has a lot of horror comic, fantasy comic, cover and sword, independent etc. Sometimes one of them can reach a large audience, as with Japanese comics, but what supports the market, at least in Japan, is shonen, battle-oriented and humorous, not unlike American superheroes and comedy cartoons.