Japanese manga vs American manga

mangaguy · newbie! Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 3

Manga is not new to Americans as Antarctic Press started what was then the only publisher doing manga, IIRC. They put out titles like Ben Dunn's Ninja High School, Fred Perry's Gold Digger and others.

Creators like Adam Warren did stuff like Dirty Pair, and we even had manga version of iconic Marvel superheroes during the Marvel Mangaverse event a few years back.

Now, it seems that almost everybody is into manga. DC with their CMX line, TOKYOPOP, Viz Media, Dark Horse, etc.

However, only several of these publishers publish original manga created and developed by Westerners such as TOKYOPOP with their aforementioned Rising Stars of Manga and Original English Language (OEL) manga, Seven Seas Entertainement, Dark Horse with Megatokyo, Antarctic Press (still with some of their original titles), Oni Press...

The rest are mainly webcomics.

With manga being such a phenomenon here and all over the world, one can only look forward to more original American manga/Amerimanga/OEL/pseudomanga in the near future as these manga-influenced fans and creators grow up and acquire and develop their art styles accordingly.

Times are definitely a-changing!

In the coming months, we'll see some OELs from TOKYOPOP. For instance, Greg Hildenrandt and Justin Boring's War on Flesh, Jen Lee Quick's Off*Beat, Wes Abbott's Dogby Walks Alone, Jason Henderson and Tony Salvaggio's Psy-Comm, Christy Lijewski's Re:Play, Amy Kim Ganter's Sorcerers & Secretaries, M. Alice LeGrow's Bizenghast.

Seven Seas is currently developing and putting out Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir's Amazing Agent Luna, Ted Naifeh's Unearthly

Cysec · newbie! Joined: Apr 29, 2005 Posts: 30

I find that the Japanese Manga interests me more. The American Manga seems to be a bit too "Americanized" With a lot of the emphasis taken away from the story and shifted towards more action and bigger bangs. This doesn't mean I won't read them at all, but I still prefer Japanese Manga.

Some of the manga that's come out of American artists also tends to shift away from the traditional manga look and feel and more towards a Marvel Superhero's type of art.

Just my 2 cents.

HonestSun · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Jun 26, 2005 Posts: 50

Well, for my point of view, Americans tend to give the credits to the "Hero" that makes many sacrifices losing even his friends and family to save the world.

Then for Japan animations, if the hero cannot save the people he really care for, he's nothing like a hero even though he succeeded at his task.

That's the main difference I see between the two types of stories and I much prefer the Japanese way of seeing it. (even though I am sadly living in north america Sad

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Guest · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:42 am Post subject:

Japanese mangas is more interesting cuz it includes about almost everything including our daily life while American comics is a bit more on the superhero, aliens type.

Pepius · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: May 10, 2005 Posts: 55

Well, I find that manga still looks a bit "imported", and as such there are still very few authors which makes truly manga overseas, and their style is more like a cross-breed between traditional superhero comics and japanese manga (not that this is a bad thing, mind you).
Anyway, if I have to choose a non-japanese current of manga, I'd stay with Iberomanga (spanish), specially in the case of comedies or the current trends in european (specially french) manga, which usually sports a level of detail and care far greater that typical monthly series, due to their lack of such time constraints.

MVIK · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Mar 23, 2005 Posts: 55

Japanese mangas is more interesting cuz it includes about almost everything including our daily life while American comics is a bit more on the superhero, aliens type.

didnt know that i wasnt login....crap -.-"

tnpflyer20 · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:17 am Post subject:

I HATE American manga. Japanese manga along with the korean authors is alot better.

Sunakujira · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject:

it will never ends when a manga get americanized, unless its sales drops then the series will be discontinued
i was once told by my friend that devilman manga being imported to america, and after 3 issues the series are stopped, why?
because Mr. Go Nagai (the origianl creator of devilman) dislike that his art are redrawn and ruined

its all about cultural difference and gap, that makes it happens, so far i never finds a really good american manga, there are bit that has good artwork and story like metalgear solid manga, but nevertheless i never get the feeling of reading an original manga, when i reading americanized manga.

why there is american manga? IMHO it is because of trend and the people who runs the business thinks there is money to make, because the usual 20 pages comic doesnt give much profit anymore. i myself read american comic, and i think they are superb, but one thing always keeps me from collecting or continue reading till it ends, that is because it never ends (so far all the comic i read tends to be like that)
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azurESky · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Jun 29, 2005 Posts: 71

I love pure japanese Very Happy

... even thought never read it... because when manga is lisenced by U.S. has too much Crying or Very sad

censorized panels... not just nudity or explicit sexual contect Twisted Evil

... all are altered to weaker versions... I mean the originals are destroyed, I mean I feel sorry for the manga authors. Crying or Very sad

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kaitune · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 1:34 am Post subject:

I prefer Japanese Manga for sure... American comics are too much of PERFECT HERO type... And the story almost must be about a super hero... I get bored of that... In Japanese manga, you can be just a normal teenager and can still be the main character...
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-darkangel- · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:23 am Post subject:

japanese manga is surely a lotttttt better than american comics !!!!!!!! that's what i think, and everyone that i've been asking tells the same opinion as me too... Very Happy

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ninjaz · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 4:17 am Post subject:

Japanese manga of course as they cover almost every aspect of our normal daily life.

asianskater · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:01 am Post subject:

AMERICAN MANGA!?!?!? Exclamation

i never knew there was american manga but comics yea but still going with the art work and the storys are japanese genuines so i vote JAPAN Exclamation

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starfirexxx · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:08 am Post subject:

definitely japanese. it's way more interesting