) THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF WESTOID COMIX: Marvel has started to add PHYSICAL DRM to their printed comics by censoring their last page of each new comic with a QR CODE that people have to scan to actually see the last page of the comic they paid on Marvel's digital comics publishing platform. 
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/sperg-about-comic-books-here.23113/page-327#post-18930794
All credits due to the Kiwiggers! 
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XITTER LOST
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MANGARYANS AND ARYANIME WON
/co/pe: https://boards.4chan.org/co/thread/144659440
idk some comicshitter site or something: https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-x-men-bonus-scenes-qr-codes-explained-tom-brevoort/
Edit: Lol I am late 
https://rdrama.net/post/286941/marvel-adds-drm-to-physical-xmen
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BS. On any of the big mangas there are 3 offshoots, the original light novel (i still don't know what thar means), the sequel, and it's all titled in Japanese because translating things takes away their sovl or some r-slurred weeb shit. So good luck figuring out which one you're supposed to be reading.
"Oh I'm totally reading kokarni kon no kami sovl I'm waiting for a better translation because the baka translated all of the honorifics and i need the girl dressed as a Samurai to refer to herself as watashi because that's part of the deep comedy"
Frick i hate weebs
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I doubt thats true for every manga
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One of the appeals of manga and why it has become so successful worldwide is that there exists manga of each and every single genre and premise imaginable for all target audiences possible, every . single . one, the only relevant Burger comics are capeshit and.... what else? the only non-capeshit successful Amerimutt comic franchise that I am aware of is Archie, and the rest are all extremely niche and barely relevant, perhaps also Scott Pilgrim, which is Canadian but as a
all Canucks are Americans to us.
And the other French-Belgian stuff that is quite different from its Burger counterparts, but still not as popular as how both manga and even Burger comics are, and also some British sci-fi comics that I do not know if there still exist people who read it, as it they are now more known as the source material of popular films such as Judge Dredd, same with how Men in Black originally started out as a comic series but now everyone just associates it with the light-hearted and family-friendly !kino adaptation with Will Smith.
!comicshitters !anime !bookworms thoughts?, yes I know that there are many non-capeslop American comics and stuff, but they are not best-sellers and highly successful, and nor do they have extremely prolific and active fanbases both online and offline, like how manga even has cooking and gambling-themed manga that are best sellers with massive fanbases, meanwhile let us say, an American comic about detectives catching a serial killer is nowhere near as relevant and popular as niche manga is.
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Garfield, dillbert?
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There's definitely other genres. Typically from a smaller publisher like Dark Horse or Image.
Saga is for space shit. Wytches for horror. Plenty of murder porn detective stuff.
DC even did Hana Barbera comics a few years ago. I remeber the Flintstones and Wacky Racers being pretty good.
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HOLY MOTHER OF KINO
!kino !comicshitters
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Dark Horse is the last stronghold of Western comics honestly.
If its not Dark Horse, I'm probably not even gonna look at the cover.
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Dark horse does manga too though,lol.
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Dark Horse has always been GOAT
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@KoreanDramaKing remember when Dark Horse got Lone Wolf and Cub released it in the 2000s it was a huge thing cuz it was comic normies first taste of kino as jap manga.
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Yabba dabba doo! I'm a war criminal! : 7granddad :
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Wytches was horror?
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What would you call it?
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I only made it through one issue.
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The other big category of burgercomics is newspaper comics
but of course that's a dead art form. Unless you consider webcomics their evolution 
Good pull with Archie though, that's probably the only other notable long running American comics franchise I can think of. As you said, you can't really consider something like Love and Rockets to be "mainstream"
Any comicschads read Bone? Now that was a good series
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When Westoids cried about fan service and unrealistic tits and butt proportions the cuckmic artists kneeled and said they would do better.
When Eastoids cried about fan service and unrealistic tits and butt proportions, the Nips said "cope. seethe. mald. @KoreanDramaKing is gonna make them even bigger now."
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The most popular manga is one genre: shonenshit. There is so much non capeshit comics you dont read since your only comics news is soychud rage bait. Shonen Manga is popular since it's serialized in an easy to buy format, is easy to pirate, and has very broad appeal its not like one piece is going to uncover the MIC
. DC has their own horror line now, image dynamite boom aftershock ect all publish so many genre comics.
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There is just SO MUCH manga. Lots, even most of it, is bad. But there are also lots of excellent mangas and it's a format that doesn't really shy away from new ideas/IPs. Even though for every original idea you have 10 000 versions of the same isekai/harem/high school romance trope.
Manga has some of the best stories in fantasy and sci fi, beating lots of western IPs just because they experiment more with those genres.
Also American comics just don't do slice of life really well. There is no equivalent to low stakes seinen/shounen where the focus is on interpersonal drama.
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Tsurukichi Sanpei is a work of art.
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You're saying this as if being popular with a lot of idiots is a necessary attribute of a good comics.
Grant Morrison's The Invisibles was pretty good, his work on Doom Patrol, while technically capeshit, is unconventional enough to be considered its own thing IMO.
Then there's Neil Geiman, who is also pretty popular.
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Literally nobody has heard of them
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Didnt read
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The other option is " i finally got picked up for a show, the updates will now stop" choose whichever you'd prefer. Sometimes you can get both.
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Common gaijin slop reader L
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Oh wow i now think you're totally from Japan because you casually used one of their words. What is Jackie Chan like in person?
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He's a lot meaner in person
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I could see that. There's no way he's letting Chris tucker talk to him like that on the street.
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Translating honorifics is actually r-slurred though because you have everyone referring to eachother as mr. and ms. and it sounds terrible. Either don't translate them, or just remove them
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The one translation error that gets me is early bleach translators not understanding Chad isn't his fricking name. Chad is his nickname but in some dub episodes people are introduced to Ishida as Chad. Chad is an injoke. You don't introduce your friend to your mom as Chad. What's funnier is that there's clearly more than one translator because they seemingly switch between chad and his real name at random during some fillers.
Also we don't know some character's first names so they're called their last names but in Japanese it's normal to say their last names. So basically everyone has their first names used except people whose first names are never revealed. This is very confusing if you don't check the wiki or understand anime.
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The worst of it for me was early naruto with Guy. I used to respond back to anyone who called him Maito Gai by asking why they don't call Rock Lee, Rokku Rii.
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I mean they're mad that they aren't included. It may be less common now but weebs would rage about it in some of the scanlations i read in the early 20 teens.
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It takes away information about how the characters see each other, at least if they're Japanese. I could really only see cutting it if the characters are explicitly American or medieval European or something
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All translations take away or alter information. Weebs just have a hardon for honorifics as it's one of the few things they know about Japanese culture.
Lmao BIPOC you just said it shows important information. Now the information isn't important if they're white? Again its clearly you just bring a weeb.
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I don't read mango so this is just an extremely uninformed opinion
In the case I described there's a legitimate choice between cultural authenticity or preserving information about the original meaning. If they're Japanese there's no reason not to include it
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It's a translation. The reason not to include Japanese in the translation is because it's a translation.
Convey the information in English.
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Preserve as much as you can then.
Everyone who reads manga is at least marginally interested in Japan so they should know what honorifics are.
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At that point just go learn Japanese. Insisting they don't translate the 6 words you know is asanine.
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The big titty teenage girl talking like an old man in chainsaw man is peak comedy that translation cels will never be able to truly appreciate.
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Yeah there are no speech patterns to convey that in English.
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U can try but it won't be nearly as funny weebs stay losing
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Ungodly levels of cope right here lmfao. You're just straight up lying right here.
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Oh so the titles are generally in English on the common scanlator sites? I must be shit at reading English then.
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Yes neighbor-san. You can go on TCBscans or Raganorakscans or (my personal preference) you can go on mangadex or mangarock, type in the English name of the manga you want to read and just choose the
lation of your choice.
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Strange that you say you can just type in the manga you want and not that it will come up in English. I know for a fact most of the titles are still in Japanese because i just went to my library in mangadex and checked.
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Maybe I just read mangas that are for normies, or a lot of mangas where people just use the Japanese name for both versions like Yu Yu Hakusho and Jujutsu Kaisen
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This is all completely wrong btw
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Most manga has one series and maybe a spinoff if it's popular but just not being r-slurred is enough to figure which is which and oftentimes they're not directly related.
The light novel is just a book like it's in the name, some manga adapt it, some improve and some regress from it.
Honorifics are almost never directly translated if it's professionally done or done by a competent scanlator. The only exceptions are thing like sensei, chan or similar depending on context. Usually it's either the first time it's brought up to help establish relationship or if it's just apart of the character, like showing them being very non-casual.
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But they're invariably titled in Japanese for no reason. So good luck figuring out which is which without reading descriptions. This applies to manga that have English titled animes about them and are commonly referred to in English.
Are all manga based on light novels? Are there light novels without manga? In what way isn't it just a novel?
Just have them same bruh if you want everyone to know how casual they are. I'm tired of weebs jerking off to the 9 things they know about Japan and requiring them all to be referenced in every manga translation. Weeb purists deserve the axe
On a sidenote Instagram reels keeps showing me this 600 lb weeb with blonde hair in a jap ceremonial costume explaining Japanese culture in the first person as if he isn't white. It's some good rage bait.
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No, for instance, Overlord is a LN original, that's its original format, the anime and manga are adaptations of that. A LN has no strict definition, but serial nature and pictures is one component. A LN will have 2-3 color pages at the start, and 8-9 black and white ones scattered throughtout the book to enhance the storytelling at certain scenes. Also, they're usually consecutive-(ever read the book animorphs? It's like that but not self contained)- but that isn't a 100% iron clad rule either. Take "Welcome to The NHK", that's a LN for sure, but it's one and done, and the only illustration is the one on the cover I think,but it's definitely a light novel.
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yeah they're from fricking Japan. Usually Jap titles are shortened to the first few chinkense words though.
A light novel is just that, a "light novel", just a short novel and they usually get a number of sequels if they prove semi popular among japs. They're basically like novella's and sell like hotcakes. They b comprise most of the Japanese book market apart from Manga. Manga itself makes up 90% of all online book sales in Japan and 30% of the overall literature market
https://news.animenomics.com/p/manga-captures-90-percent-japan-e-book-market
really interesting breakdown (
or blackpilling)
Yes, a lot. However manga isn't always the main goal. A large number of series only use the manga as a way to promote the light novels and get only like a dozen chapters that go in manga magazines. Weebs read and see some loli, get hooked, buy the novel and bam tons of money. They mostly buy in print too. And a lot of novels go on for some 20 or so volumes.
Main goal is to get an anime since even a shitty anime can sell a ton of merchandise, which is the main profit generator
Mostly up to the fan-scanlator. Lots of drama and fighting in those communities, I might make an effortpost someday since I was directly watching a lot of this shit unfold since I used to do fan-scanlation.
A fair number don't actually speak English well, some of the most frequently uploading groups are from South America and do a really shit job
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it was true and is helpful
I either autism sperg about the manga community here or at the checkout counter
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Are you r-slurred? The LN is either the original or a spinoff-adaptation. Do you think because Jurassic Park the movie and book exists that somehow means they're both the original?
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No i just don't know what light novels are and I'm trying to get an explanation. It worked.
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it sounds like you're reading crap
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All manga is garbage. If you think you're reading "good manga" then it's probably even worse.
I personally like this one where the main character fights with a log and gets dumber every time he levels up. It has the line " im going to traumatize your groin with this pointy log" now tell me about whatever gay weeb shit you read that is a deep insight into something even gayer.
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how's about not. i don't care if you consume trash. keep it up
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Let me guess, you unironically watch subs?
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Pedophilic hands typed this
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No one show this neighbor the Fate series
DON'T LOOK
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Counterpoint: manga is gay
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