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How French Manga Kills American Manga (Patreon)

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2024-02-02 12:21:28
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Taking a deep look at what makes France so well organized and structured when it comes to its manga industry, in comparison to the American standard.

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Liya Serrano

The US has had a very long history of sequential visual story telling. It is the thing that inspired Astro Boy, the first 'manga'. In fact, the first printed book being Histoire de M. Vieux Bois, Obidiah Oldbuck. is from 1828. The current state of comics is due to the way that the industry is structured, finances and the culture surrounding it. Thinking realistically, a man in the United States is less likely to be able to sacrifice time and resources to draw. In a country like Japan that has a national debt of 9.51 trillion USD you are more likely to be dedicated to a craft in which you don't need an exorbitant amount of money to buy food or pay rent or where you're not pressured to move out. France has been somewhat the same throughout the 2000s, providing a steady remuneration for authors. What does the US have the best and most of? Illustrators. Why? Because that is what is properly and best compensated. Even with the amount of liberties you're given in Japan and France to be an author, most mangakas and consequently mangas are mediocre at best.

Liya Serrano
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Where westerners make the mistake in making manga is in the attempt of making m a n g a. You will never become great if you're stuck on wanting to be something that you can not be. French mangakas make manga that will appeal to people in France inspired by manga just like how manga was inspired by comics. Most people in the US are hellbent on making a Japanese manga, something they will never be able to do.

Darknightwing Jo

Heyyy it’s me dark and yeah I’m from Belgium next to France. We are known for « bande dessinee » but France is the second consumer of manga