MANGA and ANIME is popular because of:

#1


This is the most epic dumb moveon the part of businesses in the entertainment industry who can’t fathom distributing the original material better rather they they try to reinvent everything to the extent that their interpretation of the original content becomes garbage (why?) because of the fact that nothing beats the original!

  • Because as a staple entertainment, illustrated cartoon designs are attractive and tell great stories.
  • Because Major Studios from the europe and north america want to purchase the rights to make live action /cgi versions that are hip and cool for those who appreciate badly made action figures so they can make money off of established Intellectual Property
  • because we don’t know why they are good looking because 99% don’t know how to draw.

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#2

another similar move made the Netflix Heman thing possible.Not saying that was bad or anything. just that it wasn’t meaning to sell action figures or is it?

Most importantly, why aren’t they making new properties?
Why are they going to old things- are they staples in most shops? They don’t sell every year. So what is the point in these endless revivals? The fans of the original will simple criticize it. And children who buy it will endlessly hear about it from their parents.

I think this is a business problem that investors just don’t seem to understand. At the end of the day, the style is more important than reviving the IP. If they could update the style and make new ip, wouldn’t they be in a better position? I know they aren’t japan because everything in japan seems to stay in vogue. But then IP in Japan are vast and probably are funded by independent studios from around the world in disguise.

Just saying, western production houses sometimes go to japan to distribute their processes and you never know where they end up being produced, at the end of the day they slap a label on everything.

Alas, another problem is the market in the north America. They simply can’t maintain a cogent ecosystem of financially feasable items to keep businesses that sell comics afloat. They use to sell candy, but now candy is a thing of the past. So unless the Walmarts contribute to selling this shit, then they don’t have a prayer.

Another problem now is the comicbook stores who think they can survive but they can’t.

DC and Marvel now are boutique! they don’t serialized their comics the way they use to in the 90s, but more so try to survive on fine art styles painterly stuff that people don’t undestand because they are frought with SJW motifs. The people who are trying to sell it are leaders who aren’t common idols but more like oddball people who are hard to digest in the first place.

Now those comicbook stores are placed on the financial net earnings of niche markets. Seems like they always were.

But to put it into perspective, if they could they could make a lot of money and influence alot of people. Probably not a good thing where young people and adults fork over a sizable amount of money for serialized comics and make a bunch of dummies rich people. You’d have a problem in itself.
Probably a good thing that dumb asses didn’t make alot of money off of this shit. Even if the shit was ‘the shit’.

#3

Bro, everything on TV and theaters that isn’t pron is meant to sell merchandise. Especially for kids. The billions that roll on from kids clothes, toys, games etc all branded with a particular IP is almost unthinkable.
Here in the states, every company would rather revive an old IP that was either very popular or kinda popular and still has a fan base. Provided the fan base still buys merchandise, like MOTU. Us He-man nerds still buy stuff to this day and we pass it on to our kids etc. Star Wars, Batman all of that stuff is the same. That’s one of the main reasons the Lone Ranger in 2013 failed. The movie was good, as a ‘Pirates of the Old West’ kinda movie. It took liberties, but still stuck with enough of the original idea to make it good. But the fan base for that IP is much older and much smaller. Sure, the Dynamite comics series sold well a few years ago, but still, it’s a small fan base now. I think Pirates was the last kinda original idea Disney has really had that’s been a major success. I say kinda because they already owned the idea and the ride. I get why they do it, why there’s 20 Batman movies etc because the amount of $$$ and risk a company has to sink into trying to launch a new franchise is astronomical. But these companies are all quite incestuous and loaded with $$$, there’s no GOOD reason not to try new stuff. Green Lantern is a good example of a BIG gamble not paying off. They made the film, signed all the stars for a trilogy, made a big action figure line, an actually pretty good video game, all kinds of other ancillary merchandise too and because the director didn’t understand the IP, it flopped big time. On paper, it should’ve worked but it didn’t. Shame too. The cast was perfect. The toys were cool, the game was good. But no dice.
Another issue US studios have is the woke thing. They quite literally have boxes that need to be checked when making stuff these days. Story and such always come in not even second, but like fourth to all the signaling etc. And that sucks. It’s lost studios tons of money, but they don’t seem to care. Certain properties are doomed from this (Superman), and some ain’t so bad, and others don’t have much at all (Star Wars). And sometimes people think stuff’s there based on certain stances or tweets from execs and thats sad too. They should all follow the Micheal Jordan rule.

In Japan, as I understand it, creators have lots more freedom to create as they wish, but everyone involved knows that merchandising is a given. It’s expected and boy, do they rake in the loot from it!

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#4

Japanese toys are either really sophistipacted Wagyu beef style toys or non-existent. And for the lot that can drift into multiple territories, they get made cheaply. its like you’re not going to find Doraemon figures made in china EVER. But you can find Go-Bots cheaply (and you ask WTF are GoBots?). Exactly.

#5

Yes in a sense that there is very little censorship or that it is a grey area. That applies very little to creation in and of itself. But i get that controversy might get attention but it doesn’t have to. If you look at Studio Ghibli the only thing that costs a hefty sum is story development and character dev/design which takes time to make good if its complex or layered.

Writing takes time. Investors are either interested in whats already done or are willing to invest in the creationism from whence writers are responsible for.
For instance, in NETFLIX’s Yumi Cell’s there are two dozen animated characters that grow during in the first half the season.
That takes time to write and each episode expands on it. I can tell that investors need to have a lot of respect / patience for the material to be written.

Now look at NETFLIX’s HE-man. Nothing has been invented here. Characters remain intact but probably slightly re-written. Pound for pound, investors know what they have invested in.

2 different motifs. 1 is from established IP and 2nd is from a writers universe being created from scratch. the 1st can sell toys, the 2nd can also but runs the gamble of the actual series not being very popular since its fairly new. Both are unique IPs with as many characters in the show. Both appeal to children curiousity.
They aren’t the same genre, but thats not the point.Both are considered to be Manga-to an extent (one being half live action half animated) and one is in a completely different language.