Doom is crying because the Planes missed the Baxter Building.
Also Magneto why are you there?? you are supposed to be death from the Wild Sentinel attack on genosha
My point was that manga and anime aren’t cursed with American “politics” like the above either.
Like it or not, manga and anime have a wide appeal because they are widely appealing. Messages are universal and are presented in ways that are universally understood.
What exactly is the message in this panel? How does this appeal to anyone except for Americans? Even then, americans have a problem with it because it doesn’t even make sense for the character.
American comics have always done this kind of stuff; where self aggrandizing authors fellate themselves by writing in real life politics without offering any of the actual nuance people would normally afford a political piece.
In the end you get stuff like this, racist depictions of Asians, islamophobia, and the likes and no actual message beyond the current propaganda line.
American media gets to appeal only to Americans and everything else needs to have a ‘worldwide’ appeal that happens include America heavily in consideration as if there’s some sort of cultural hegemony or something
That everything else is Japanese.
I’m comparing one country’s comic industry to another.
Also, DC and especially Marvel have come out time and time again to talk about the difficulties with their media (especially movies) attracting an audience outside of America.
American comics are hyper specific, and as a result appeal to Americans only. On the other hand, Japanese mangas have global appeal because they aren’t hyper specific to the Japanese.
More people know who Goku is than superman. There’s a reason for that.
