How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons?
Not against the medium I consume it.
But it occurred to me that there seems to be a lot more exposure to anime and manga largely thanks to services like crunchyroll and manga reader services, this includes physical sales as well.
It's just that you'd think say, Superman would be more stupidly popular since everyone knows who he is than someone such as Lelouch from Code Geass.
Is it because comics just doesn't have the same spark with the younger generation? Or is it because there are a billion different issues of comics so it makes manga more streamlined?
I would like to know your thoughts as I am quite curious about this phenomenon, since even in the early 2000s I was into anime, and you could get your fix from non legit services via the Internet, but I'm sure as shit it didn't hit this mainstream until the mid 2010s and now the roaring 2020s.
Dude the marvel cinematic universe is we...was one of the biggest hits to smash into the box office. Batman is one of the most popular fictional characters ever written. People are still talking about adventure time, regular show, Avatar the last Airbender, and they ended how long ago? SpongeBob is still on the air. Simpsons has lasted longer than most anime.
What are you talking about, Western comics and animation being less popular?
You want to know a pretty unbiased way to judge this? Look at a Halloween store. Spirit even has stuff from the hawk tuah lady, so you know they work fast and go with what's popular. You might see an old Naruto costume or two, maybe a Goku, and an endcap of what's popular this year possibly still demon Slayer. But you'll see a bunch of stuff for Batman, Superman, hell the joker and Harley Quinn gave their own sections each, and that's just DC.
I wonder if perhaps they meant prevalent? Because, yeah, Western animation is extremely popular (at least, in the West where they were made) but it's not exactly as prevelent as Japanese animation. For every Western animation, there seems to be 25 Japanese ones. It's a much bigger thing in the East.
Though I also don't believe this has anything to do with what the people want, it has more to do with producers and execs at Time Warner and such hating animation, making it really hard for animators to make anything and get it out in the public unless they can produce it themselves.
That makes a lot more sense