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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I personally think that anime and manga having a ‘pipeline’ helps them.

    • A publisher like Weekly Shonen Jump shotguns a load of new series into their comic and sees if any stick.

    • If a series is popular, then their individual volumes sell well, encouraging WSJ to continue publishing.

    • After a while, the popular series will most likely be given an anime (which nowadays tend to be very manga accurate), which tend to export better.

    • If the anime is popular, volume sales increase worldwide, and you have a massive hit.

    While this quite effectively creates new popular series, it leads to a massive manga graveyard.

    Western comics don’t really have this kind of pipeline and I’m not aware of any WSJ-like publications for new Western projects.



  • Always interesting to see the remnants of the old empires. Countries like the UK and France still having little splatters of control across the world like the last bits of black mould you can’t reach.

    I’m curious, are places like Hawai’i seeing similar movements? I know that area has a bit of an odd history.