Marvel & DC went woke. So people switched to manga.
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I dont think even this puts into scale just how absurd the growth in Manga was. How absurd was it? The entire American comic book market, including Indies, was outsold by just the merch of Demon Slayer.
And yet, comic pros think that this is all fine and proof that the Comic industry is healthier than it has ever been.
Yep, they’ll keep drawing heroes and villains and, uh, living mosques?!? next to speech bubbles that simply copy-paste critical theory talking points for their imagined audience, and that audience will proudly retweet screen shots of the most woke pages posted to Twitter, then go about the usual habit of not buying comic books. And the industry will have no idea what’s happening.
The graphic novels section of the industry quietly added manga to itself, too.
I'd call this out as cultural appropriation, but it's clearly the case that the converged people in charge of the numbers know the score. By adding Manga, they get to look like a healthy industry AND keep posting critical theory as comics. The fact that Disney and Warner are finally getting so financially pressured that they're looking to take the long knives to their Marvel and DC comics divisions?
"Don't look at the xir behind the curtain!" "Oz is great and mighty!" "American Comics have never been healthier!" "Bigot!"
It is to laugh.
Ah MAGA manga.