What If? Comicbooks Had A Fanbase Similar In-Number/Proportion & Culture to Manga/Anime/Light Novels/Videogames/etc?

[CarlManvers2019]

This idea came from this talk me and @LifeisTiresome just had a few minutes ago

Another thing that aids in anime and manga not sucking is that the Japanese stick to the seemingly obsolete opinion of not insulting your customer and giving your customers what they want.

Its entirely possible that some manga and anime creators do think their fans are trash. But they will never say it which suits everyone just fine.

The more Japan loses its culture and become more western, they will loose the attitude I mentioned and start insulting their fans and become more mature in writing aka throw away fun and everything has to be about agenda and of course being subversive.

One thing I think that can be agreed, is that even before the 2010s, the number of readers of Western Comicbooks were much lower on average compared to Manga, also, I think a good portion of whatever fanbase existed before didn't exactly have a strong cultural identity or resistance to outside and maybe the creators themselves sorta already hated what they were making and who they were saving

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How would things have gone in the longterm, before even the creation of the MCU, if the number of buyers was larger and simply put NOT mainly a bunch of middle aged white dudes who are/were longtime fans and into comic book fanservice.....yeah I don't think having a reputation for having the sorta user base both Shounen, Shounen-Ecchi & Ecchi will be so good, but how would things change?

Presumably, most people eventually remember/know there’s more than superhero comics around

Lots of European comicbooks and adaptations of books and mythologies amongst other things like history even

 

[Shipmaster Sane]

"Anime Not Sucking"
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[CarlManvers2019]

"Anime Not Sucking"
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The Customer Is Always Wrong $ It Is Time To Cater To A Bunch of People That Will Make Use Not "Suck" By Being Different From The Majority MAYBE!!!

 

[Shipmaster Sane]

The Customer Is Always Wrong $ It Is Time To Cater To A Bunch of People That Will Make Use Not "Suck" By Being Different From The Majority MAYBE!!!

If more money and attention doesnt make 99% of anime anything but shit, more attention and money wouldn't make comic books anything but shit. Comic books were shit before the current batch of SJW bullshit.

Civil war fucking sucked, and that was two thousand and fucking six. House of M blew chunks before that! Ultimates was shit! Do you remember when Blob ate Wasp, then Ant Man ate Blob?

Whats it been, twenty years since comics were anything but a fucking laughingstock for anyone with taste?

 

[CarlManvers2019]

If more money and attention doesnt make 99% of anime anything but shit, more attention and money wouldn't make comic books anything but shit. Comic books were shit before the current batch of SJW bullshit.

Still, crap specifically made for a specific audience makes me think it wouldn’t as casually try abandoning it in favor of another and could have enough pull for more adaptations

 

[Shipmaster Sane]

Still, crap specifically made for a specific audience makes me think it wouldn’t as casually try abandoning it in favor of another and could have enough pull for more adaptations

But it would still be garbage, it would still be cancer on society. There'd just be more of it because they'd be successfully pandering to the mentally ill.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

But it would still be garbage, it would still be cancer on society. There'd just be more of it because they'd be successfully pandering to the mentally ill.

Okay, that said, you really sure they won’t abandon their audience

I think a pressure to go Woke would still be around everything else