Marvel & DC went woke. So people switched to manga.
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Manga, and Japan in general, has the blessing and curse of being unfathomably formulaic and the Japs themselves incredibly loud if that is messed with.
Which means anything that really shakes up the mold will be met with enough controversy to scare the Japs away from continuing and other companies from even trying. Ragebait political moves will have the opposite effect as they do here.
So, it will happen but it will be at a glacial pace comparatively to what we are used to. And at the rate "web manga" are taking off, and doujins already are, its likely the mainstream industry creating it will have lost its monolith. Which is the requirement to really push social change effectively.
They are also obsessed with efficiency and profit above all else. So they may occasionally get battered into creating a Woke manga by Western investors or Twitter freaks. Then it will crash and burn, they will say “Well, so much for that.” And then go back to the stuff that sells until it’s time for badgering again.
Not just that, but they also are obsessed with purity. Girls not being "pure" is such a major topic of contention that it basically can destroy entire AAA companies. From idols to games to even the porn has to tiptoe around it. Same with their racism, where if they don't throw in a line about a character being "1/4" Jap, they get hounded and attacked for it.
These are anathemic to the Woke, who need those as a baseline acceptance to even begin pushing further. Which means they have to start slowly and subtly (like they did a long time ago in the West) to get in the door, and the current crop lacks those abilities.