21:45 "One of my favorite mangas which is about fishing" Many Japanese, including myself, were surprised to hear your statement. And we are arguing what your favorite fishing manga is. Many of us think that it is "Tsurikichi Sanpei". Please,Teach us.
Thank you. "Turikichi Sanpei" is a very unique manga even in Japan. This manga reminded us of the delicacy and beauty of Japan's nature. I am very happy to have readers outside of Japan.
I'm new to the channel just hearing about this video but looking through his other videos I see he talks more on the topic of manga in Ask Chuck Dixon #47 and even mentions "Tsurikichi Sanpei" and talks a bit about it.
Thank you!! I found it on Ask Chuck Dixon #47 21:07. If you like, try searching for images with this word "tsurikichi sanpei". You will be able to see nice pictures.
Chuck Dixon san. Your video is featured on another site in Japanese. And, in one day, nearly 600 Japanese comments are gathered. Most comments say that your statement is quite correct.
Finally an answer to the age old question of what was the deal with pouches I learn something new about comics every Wednesday morning, thanks Mr Dixon!
May not agree with you politically, but couldn’t agree with you more when it comes to film, books and comics!! The important stuff in life!! I love you, Mr.Dixon!!!!
Responses like this deserve to be lauded, if not because it is so damn rare these days to encounter people who are capable of simply disagreeing. Political disagreements in 99% of cases, in current day, result in a bare minimum of ad hominem attacks and often escalate to harassment, death threats, maybe even actual violence. So..for you to simply agree to disagree amazes me. There's still hope that discourse isn't dead. Thank you. Thank you so much.
I think a lot of it has to do with people living sheltered lives and not meeting/interacting with people from different walks of life with differing viewpoints.
Indeed. When you have lived your entire life surrounded by liberal college teachers and students, no wonder you'd assume conservatives are racist, greedy bigots. And if you live exclusively surrounded by right wingers, well no wonder you'd think leftists all poor, greedy, lazy nihilists. You just need to like, actually know people. And you'll find there's not that much difference between you and them, ultimately... There's an amazing TED talk about a black man that became friends with a KKK leader. That embodies everything for me.
I have been reading you for years, and I had no idea that you had a UA-cam page. I was watching The Quartering, and he highlighted some of the comments you had made about the popularity of Manga, which I consider myself a fan of, but only because modern comics seem to want to destroy the stories that we grew up with. Thank god that voices of reason like yours are still in the industry with this "woke" takeover of American comics. I subscribed, and passed this along to some of my old-school nerd friends.
I grew up on all my Dad's old comics. Loved them. Devoured all that I could. By 10 years ago my pull list was empty and I started reading these weird comics called "manga" in my bookstore. Never really looked back.
Don't forget manga are creator owned. The publisher is strictly the publisher but the author owns the rights to their comics and their characters. With american comics all those zombie franchises are corporate owned, so there's no direct connection to the creator, it's not theirs, they're contract slaves.
@@JoiskiMe No. Publishers obviously get a big cut of the sales and use the characters of popular series they publish for marketing, depending on whatever license agreement they have - but the properties are creator owned, large portions of the merch sales for example go to the creators. That's why you got instances of creators moving their series to other publishers (Famous example: Alita). This is entirely different from the west where you're just a contract worker on commission and you own nothing, because the characters are corporate property. Manga is very much an author thing. As it's supposed to be.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on manga. As a Japanese, I would like to point out that in our manga history, female mangakas flourished since its beginning, and probably you already know that so many hit series are done by them. And there are almost no taboos in the contents that manga artists create. For so many decades, there were mangas that dealt with homosexuality in a very sensitive and positive way, and there were also mangas about hero team of several races. I hope that American Comics, like American movies and dramas, some day will be able to handle various genres of content and the public will be able to accept them.
23:20 This would require things like humility and introspection on the creators part (something the Japanese as a society have a lot of, and we as Americans have very little of) so that ain't happening anytime soon. But I am curious just what is it that Comic Book pros complain about when it comes to manga? The fact that it doesn't use colored pages for the most part? That it has to be read from right to left? Or that mangaka have the FREEDOM to craft the narratives and draw the art they want to with out some holier-than-thou puritans breathing down their neck?
They complain, by their own words, for the last reason you stated. But the REAL reason is that they are successful and have an audience that will support them, while the American comic pros don't have that. That's the true reason for their whining. Well, that and that the Japanese won't inject their toxic political ideologies into their work.
Look...Manga has shit like where Tank battles are a sanctioned sport that high school girls take part in that involve live rounds but doesnt actually injure anyone cus reasons. And it's actually entertaining as all hell. Sell an interesting concept that isnt just superhumans dealing with being too super or too human
The real answer to the pouches question was that heroes were always pulling devices and weapons out of somewhere. And Art Adams created longshot. When he created him, he wanted longshot to have these throwing blades. And he didn't just want him pulling them out of nowhere, so he gave him pouches. This was a huge influence on Leifeld who gave Cable a shitload of pouches, because he also used weapons. Also the fact that weapons were becoming a bigger deal in comics because people using superpowers like ice blasts and things like that were kind of boring. The 80s and 90s was the era of sharp things and guns. Longshot had knives. Angel lost his feather wings and got knife wings. Cable had guns and needed places to store ammo.
I always thought Ultimate Spider-Man worked well cause it was the closest thing to a Marvel manga, not necessarily because of the style but because of the lack of external continuity and the fact that creators stayed the same for a very long run. I think one of the things that ruins comics is the lack of creative direction and that's why my favourite comics are long runs possibly detached somehow from the rest of the continuity, like Punisher MAX or the early Ultimate titles. It just feels different when something happens for the first time in the Ultimate universe compared to it happening for the 50th time in the regular one. That's also why my favourite classic Marvel comics are the ones from the 60s. If I had to think of one main difference between mangas and comics I'd say mangas tell stories in chapters like a book and they take way longer to develop characters and stories, while comics are derivative from the times where you could get an entire story arc in 20 pages. That's why you get 12 issue comic runs that fit inside a paperback which is smaller than the first volume of a manga series
I agree with pretty much everything you wrote. Manga stories are allowed to breathe and creators are allowed to tell the stories they want to write. Marvel books get rebooted yearly and DC will shove odd external stuff in at random, and then there's the ever present threat of retcons and rewrites down the road. You don't have that with manga. Manga are more like traditional book publishing but in a visual episodic form. Comics used to approximate it when a creative team would go for years on the same book and tell a cohesive story but now that doesn't happen. Plus Manga volumes are ~$10 a pop and always have like 200 pages of story. Now manga is usually black and white but overall it's just a better value for your investment of both time and money.
the funny thing is that most super hero mangas are a satire of western comic books, meanwhile DC and marvel try way too hard to force real life political agenda into a fictional world, they take it too seriously
At this point Marvel and DC are gonna have to hit rock bottom to realize their mistakes, but lets face it they'll never learn. Manga get's it right cause you could read something like Fullmetal Alchemist or Attack on Titan and not be throat punched by an agenda while M and DC just want to shove the same thing over and over and over. I don't care about superheroes I want a story that's different not the same superhero regurgitated through woke frames. I know shits bad, I know we need diversity, but you know what creates diversity? Telling a story that's not about superheroes and instead something different and knew that doesn't push one side or another, but get's you to think or makes you not think it's amazing when you have the choice to think or not think when you read something.
While I agree that US comics desperately need to produce a wider range of genres for readers, it seems the few non-cape books that are produced by smaller publishers largely do not get high sales. Why is it that these same genres seemingly do better when produced as manga vs when they are printed as American comics?
because they are centralized, all those different genres are usually published in a single magazine like weekly shonen jump or seinen magazine and at the end of the last page there's a survey for all the different mangas that the readers can rate and send back to the publisher, if a series gets a high rating they gets released as their own volume, those that gets low ratings will get axed and the author will have to come up with a new story and character if they want to stay,
@@GEARZX90 There is an excellent manga that exemplifies that, it is a manga about making manga, if you are interested in looking for it it is called "bakuman", It is from the creators of Death note
The funny thing being that 20 years ago, Manga was seen as inferior and I was often looked down on by the comic community for reading manga. They called it “gay” and made fun of the art and stories. Haha. How the times have changed. Can’t say I’m not happy about it :) the anime and manga community is full of women!!
Time told on Spielberg.A lot of his "classics" are now completely forgotten.I was so disappointed with Jurassic park when i was a kid i wondered what the hell others were seeing that i wasn't?
The old Comic creators understood what makes something a Super Hero, while current don't even understand what makes someone an ordinary hero. So creating something someone to look up to for the reader people love based on the most universal principles of that culture that left and right wing people can stand behind. The road to redemption, the way how some got to earn their powers or when gotten them how to earn them and not let their ego get in their way. Knowing what the greater good is and what it is to believe in principles and live by them.
Yeah Cameron hasn't made a good movie since the last century, but if the only 3 movies he ever made were Terminator, Aliens, and Terminator 2, that would be a pretty good legacy for anyone.
Yeah but he did also sign off on John Connor being shot dead at the beginning of that new Terminator. He approved that. And there's FOUR more Avatar movies coming in the next seven years! I get sleepy just thinking about them.
American comics: We want DIVERSITY!! Japanese comics: Sorry, we can't hear you over the sound of all the money we made from people who actually bought our stuff.
i am agree with you, Comic Book to focus on diversity in Character but forgot About diversity in genre, is doesn't matter how much you love fried chicken, if you eat fried chicken everyday you will getting tired of it, not mention They Will preach you about the ingredients before they let you eat your food, meanwhile manga had so many diversity in genre is like Buffet of every food in the world where you free to eat what you like, i mean there manga about manga author where they teach you about manga industry
What Mr. Dixon is saying from 22:16 to 22:55 is too true and hits home for me. I will look far and wide on the internet for old and new graphic novels that don't feature flying men and women in spandex who can tank most armies with energy blasts coming from their eyes or hands. There was I time that I would look through the graphic novels in the inventories of what comic book shops I could find, however I stopped doing that when I found old Warhammer 40k graphic novels via the internet.
@@Dixonverse Yeah, but what if such a cut featured more of Batman-in-costume-doing-stuff, including kicking butt? I think the lack of such things is the main problem a lot of fans (including me) have with those movies. But then again, perhaps my expectations of such a hypothetical cut are unrealistic?
@Chuck Dixon This is less of a question and more a suggestion, assuming you have influence enough to effect the website; Why are the comics on Archaven always sorted first to last, with no option to put the newest at the top? I feel this makes it inconvenient to check whether the latest issue has come out yet as I need to scroll down
the popularity of manga can be a good thing for us comics. with the current state of non indie being stagnant and lackluster we may be looking forward to a rebirth of the industry breaking free from the cookie cutter mold that was put in place to protect profits and hopefully inspire fresh new ideas. one idea ive heard that i would love to see for example is super heroes just living their day to day life. imagine iceman literally chilling at a beach or superman going camping and getting swarmed by bees with a mildly irritated look on his face
deinonychus are bigger, more dangerous species of the same dino as Velociraptors. Velociraptors were kind of small, not like in the movie. Basically Crichton picked a very obscure dinosaur and Spielberg went with them but made them scarier.
Not exactly. For a very brief moment during the time 1980s when Chrichton was writing the book, Deinonychys' name was under debate. While the book version isn't accurate to the findings either, Crichton used the name that was valid according to some paleontologists that debated that Deino was a Velociraptor. However, by the time the movie was being developed, the issue had been solved and Deinonychys was being given its own separate name from the Velociraptor. Crichton and Spielberg knew this, and after some discussion, they decided to go with Velociraptor nevertheless because the name and description simply were better in their view. As much as Jurassic Park gets a bad rap nowadays for its scientific inaccuracies, Crichton did try to make it as grounded as possible as understood at the time of the writing of the book.
Is not just "something for everybody",its the ultimate form of media in terms of variety and "democracy". From borderline illegal sexual deviations to wholesome little stories about the simples joys of life,like the fishing one chuck mentioned. American comics are extremelly limited in this aspect. There is NOT something for everybody. In fact,touching some subjects that manga touches would be a gigantic no no from comic readers,or even considered boring or "meme-ish" and read ironically.. Another thing that makes manga stand out is the lack of "responsability with reality" and agenda. No i don't care about politics,real world issues or whatever. I don't want to read "twitter illustrated". No i don't want to be "woke".JUST TELL ME A GOOD STORY ACOMPANNIED WITH GOOD ART That is it. That's all you need to do.
I agree that High Noon was overrated. Way too slow paced for my taste. But one thing I do love about it, the general public did not pick up on the movies anti-anti-communist message. Instead the audiences took it as a celebration of individualism! Thus prompting it's writer to disown the movie!
@@Dixonverse I was also surprised to learn that Jonah Hex was DC's biggest hit back then. But I'm a western lover (and writer) myself, so I can see the appeal of that. Too bad Hollywood couldn't make a decent movie of the character, even with Josh Brolin!... As for Manga v Comics. It's simple, the one that makes the better product will thrive. To be honest, the only superhero comics I was really into in my teens was the Punisher, back when Garth Ennis was writing it. His politics were pretty obvious too but not nearly the tripe we have today!
We just want good storytelling and not stuff overloaded with politics, it's like most of these writers are really just activists. We want to escape from real life and not deal with some of the stuff we are seeing in the entertainment lately. I haven't gotten into manga as much but I have been watching a lot of anime recently heavy and I'm really enjoying it. I really don't know where to start in manga outside of Berserk I hear that's a great one to get, I'm super green to that stuff right now.
As you said, we want escapism and entertainment. Currently these writers all see comic books as simply another platform and these characters as self-insert avatars for their politics. This is precisely what the japanese avoid and why american comics are circling the drain.
Samuel san, I'm not sure what genre you're interested in, but I'd recommend "Natsume Yujincho - Natsume's Book of Friends" for one to watch. You can watch it on Crunchyroll.
Er, srry when do you talk abt the alternatives to the Big 2, in this or an upcoming video and can u say what are the exceptions or? Nice video btw, came from YoungRippa59 ig heh if u wanna know yh. Also what do you think about all the Bane adaptions over the years, like the Gotham show 1?
Since you've spoken about the need for American comics to branch out into more genres, what would be the plot you'd write if Hallmark approached you to make write a comic called "A Pouch for Christmas?"
Hello, I just wanna ask you a question. How do you feel about superhero comic artists intentionally making the main characters look ugly just to pander to the people they're supposed to represent?
just so you know the name for the dinosaurs Deinonychus didn't change to Velociraptor. Jurassic Park turned the Deinonychus into their Velociraptor because raptor meant bird and that went with their story. the two dinosaurs are still very different.
Are there any doujinshi in the US? If doujinshi exist, I believe they will be revived one day if we take care of that market. I believe that the doujinshi market is the truly free market, both in Japan and in the US.
If by doujinshi you mean self-published comics, like underground comics and indie comics, as the word means, then yes. Doujinshi exists across the world, with the most known one being Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
When I was in kindergarten, I used to play the Mutant Turtles game on the SEGA .GENESIS I guess one day there will definitely be a second Mutant Turtles and American comics will be back.
I'd say the closest thing to the doujinshi scene in the US is actually webcomics. The US is so spread out that it's hard to have giant in-person sales like Comiket and other Japanese conventions. American conventions have some sales places for independent artists but they're kind of a side show or afterthought.
People think the product of a comic is the art. It isn't. The product is the experience of reading a story. The art is like the acting or the editing in a movie. It's the method of delivery.
The story is the aggregation of every narrative pieces including the plot, characterization and world-building. The plot is the overall events that the audiences follow.
So what do you think of the film Outland with Sean Connery and Peter Boyle? It was pitched as high noon in space. Is there a completed collection of WInterworld? Thanks
You know how over in Japan not every show is kid friendly. There is variety and something for EVERYONE. You think America should make some more mature animated shows based on comic book characters? Imagine a more mature Batman animated show?
That is why if was even in the field of comics id go to image or another independent or start my own imprint. Big comic is just like big chicken if u wastch the doc super size me 2 holly chicken you would see why thats a great comparison
Hey Chuck I don't know if you've talked about this since I just found your channel but how do you feel about recent stories with Tim Drake considering your the guy who wrote his series and created Stephanie Brown. You probably know the recent controversial story I'm referring to.
Band of Brothers is great. The Pacific is ok, but with the loses in that theater you don't get the character attachment. Saving Private Ryan is a good movie by any measure.
I have always find Batman very interesting and very unlike other American heroes. Batman is the only American hero I like and would watch and not because of the aesthetics of the style. Batman's story is intriguing. Now I think it's because Chuck Dixon really has a lot of insight that other comic writers don't. (To be honest, as an Asian, I don't find American super heroes attractive. Some even look very ugly to me for being too muscular. But Batman is a show that I'll watch and finish even when I'm not a fan of the art style)
I got into World Trigger recently and I was shocked/not really shocked to find that the author is suffering from a spinal cord disease (basically neck arthritis) that people get when they are 90 when he was 30.
Hey Chuck, i was exploring your channel. I noticed your missing cover art on your channel you might wanna fix that. And your about me section is blank might want to fix that too
I know you might miss this question, but I'll ask you any way. Is it true that when you were a kid, you got into a fist fight with another kid because he liked the Adam West Batman show and you hated it? I thought I heard that somewhere. Also, I have another question, are you the very same Charles Dixon that wrote a letter that was printed in Fantastic Four 131?
@@Dixonverse you might already know this, but you weren't the only future comic book writer to have a letter published in FF 131. There was also a letter in that issue by Mike W. Barr.
I haven't seen "Come and See" but I have bee told it is awesome. At the moment my nomination for the best war movie is "The Unknown Soldier", specifically the 2017 movie (of which I have seen the original theater version, not the foreign theater version or the tv series version).
@@nikopursiainen9097 OH haven't heard about that movie. Thanks. In regards of Come and See although my favourite ever, I think Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent (1977) film is even better, she was the wife of the director of Come and See.
Does Chuck know Masakazu Katsura creator of the manga Shadow Lady is a big Batman fan? I think Chuck and Masakazu Katsura should work together on something. He see manga success, I'm sure Masakazu Katsura would love to work with a former Batman writer on something.
GL/GA had nice Neal Adams art but I've always felt the stories were preachy. They have NOT aged well and it's particularly annoying for people who like the Hal Jordan character. I despise preachy at least as much as "woke." Different sides of the same coin! GL/GA also did tremendous damage to both Hal Jordan/GL and Oliver Queen/GA. To his credit, O'Neil portrayed Queen as very flawed and far from the perfect "father figure" with regards to the way he reacted to Speedy's drug addiction. Still felt more than a bit over the top and very unsympathetic. The unfortunate impact of this is that Green Arrow is generally portrayed as contrarian for the sake of it with a bit of diddling jerk added to the side. At this point, he's had 2 kids out of wedlock but I no longer think that Connor Hawke and the baby are in continuity! ** GL was so badly damaged. At one point in the 1960s, I read that he was DC's best-selling character after Superman. GL was made the strawman in a time when the anti-authoritarians were liberals as opposed to today's "liberal/progs" who defend the establishment at all costs. I have one or two of these stories in DC reprint collections but I've felt no desire to add the full reprint collection of GL/GA to my comics library. The run comes back into reprint every 10 years. I'm sure it never sells that well... At best, it's a mediocre run.
There's room in comics for everything. But I object to inserting personal politics into escapist fiction, particularly in legacy characters like superheroes. I've done political comic books myself but only in instances where that was the purpose of the project.
Don't really think Demon Slayers that good it's very generic but yeah manga is a lot better. Most of the manga I read are from the 80's and 90's and most of the newer manga are just rip off of old ones but they're still better than comics.
I feel the same about demon slayer and jujutsu kaisen but it seems that a lot of the better manga don’t want to be on shonen jumps physical copies but their online site. (I guess many authors are tired of competing for space on the weekly phonebook) Hell’s paradise was a good action mystery series I got into earlier this year. And Chainsaw man (which I really enjoyed) is also moving to SJ’s online store.
@@glorioustigereye I'll have to check out Hells Paradise and yeah Chainsawman is actually pretty good. Yeah...Jujutsu Kaisen just felt too familiar from past series I've read.
@@destinydueler Most of the depth in Demon Slayer flies over the heads of the western fans because of the Japanese themes, it's probably one of the least generic battle shonens in the last decade too.
@@armbaria Considering I've been reading/watching manga/anime since I was 3 and am now 30 and I mostly read shonen. I have a good grasp of what is and isn't original by now. Demon Slayer is very bland, it has it's moments but it's nothing special. It's basically just a mishmash of Kenshin and Inuyasha. As for the going over my head I find that laughable. All manga have japanese themes, hell the original Dragon Ball is full of Japanese and chinese themes. Not to mention I'm a big history buff and have to read every little thing that's referenced I am well versed in Japanese culture. I speak it semi-fluently and have visited several times over the years. It's just honestly I've read so many series over 27 years I really just don't find it special. If it's your first of tenth I could see it but it can't compare to DB, OP, Bleach, Naruto, Yu Yu Hakusho, Shaman King, Fist of the North Star, Saint Seiya, Buso Renkin, Ruruoni Kenshin, Magi, JoJo, Dr Slump, OPM, Yu-Gi-Oh, Devilman, Mazinger, honestly I could sit here all day and type manga I've read that have done what Demon Slayer has done and done it better.
hes 100% right about politics in comics and on manga...once american comics dies (the big two) we can move on to good comics again
21:45 "One of my favorite mangas which is about fishing"
Many Japanese, including myself, were surprised to hear your statement.
And we are arguing what your favorite fishing manga is.
Many of us think that it is "Tsurikichi Sanpei".
Please,Teach us.
That's the one!!
Thank you.
"Turikichi Sanpei" is a very unique manga even in Japan. This manga reminded us of the delicacy and beauty of Japan's nature.
I am very happy to have readers outside of Japan.
I'm new to the channel just hearing about this video but looking through his other videos I see he talks more on the topic of manga in Ask Chuck Dixon #47 and even mentions "Tsurikichi Sanpei" and talks a bit about it.
Thank you!! I found it on Ask Chuck Dixon #47 21:07.
If you like, try searching for images with this word "tsurikichi sanpei". You will be able to see nice pictures.
@@Dixonverse amazing hahahah 👍
Chuck Dixon san.
Your video is featured on another site in Japanese. And, in one day, nearly 600 Japanese comments are gathered.
Most comments say that your statement is quite correct.
My boy, Chuck is now getting popularity overseas.
Finally an answer to the age old question of what was the deal with pouches
I learn something new about comics every Wednesday morning, thanks Mr Dixon!
Glad to help
May not agree with you politically, but couldn’t agree with you more when it comes to film, books and comics!! The important stuff in life!! I love you, Mr.Dixon!!!!
Responses like this deserve to be lauded, if not because it is so damn rare these days to encounter people who are capable of simply disagreeing. Political disagreements in 99% of cases, in current day, result in a bare minimum of ad hominem attacks and often escalate to harassment, death threats, maybe even actual violence. So..for you to simply agree to disagree amazes me. There's still hope that discourse isn't dead. Thank you. Thank you so much.
I think a lot of it has to do with people living sheltered lives and not meeting/interacting with people from different walks of life with differing viewpoints.
Indeed. When you have lived your entire life surrounded by liberal college teachers and students, no wonder you'd assume conservatives are racist, greedy bigots. And if you live exclusively surrounded by right wingers, well no wonder you'd think leftists all poor, greedy, lazy nihilists.
You just need to like, actually know people. And you'll find there's not that much difference between you and them, ultimately...
There's an amazing TED talk about a black man that became friends with a KKK leader. That embodies everything for me.
I have been reading you for years, and I had no idea that you had a UA-cam page. I was watching The Quartering, and he highlighted some of the comments you had made about the popularity of Manga, which I consider myself a fan of, but only because modern comics seem to want to destroy the stories that we grew up with. Thank god that voices of reason like yours are still in the industry with this "woke" takeover of American comics. I subscribed, and passed this along to some of my old-school nerd friends.
I grew up on all my Dad's old comics. Loved them. Devoured all that I could. By 10 years ago my pull list was empty and I started reading these weird comics called "manga" in my bookstore. Never really looked back.
Don't forget manga are creator owned. The publisher is strictly the publisher but the author owns the rights to their comics and their characters. With american comics all those zombie franchises are corporate owned, so there's no direct connection to the creator, it's not theirs, they're contract slaves.
Corporate environments and creativity are like petrol and water. It won't mix
The publishers own part of the rights to IPs in JP.
@@JoiskiMe No. Publishers obviously get a big cut of the sales and use the characters of popular series they publish for marketing, depending on whatever license agreement they have - but the properties are creator owned, large portions of the merch sales for example go to the creators. That's why you got instances of creators moving their series to other publishers (Famous example: Alita). This is entirely different from the west where you're just a contract worker on commission and you own nothing, because the characters are corporate property. Manga is very much an author thing. As it's supposed to be.
@@JoiskiMe Nah, aside from the platform in which most manga are published like the magazines, they don't own the creative rights.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on manga.
As a Japanese, I would like to point out that in our manga history, female mangakas flourished since its beginning, and probably you already know that so many hit series are done by them.
And there are almost no taboos in the contents that manga artists create.
For so many decades, there were mangas that dealt with homosexuality in a very sensitive and positive way, and there were also mangas about hero team of several races.
I hope that American Comics, like American movies and dramas, some day will be able to handle various genres of content and the public will be able to accept them.
23:20 This would require things like humility and introspection on the creators part (something the Japanese as a society have a lot of, and we as Americans have very little of) so that ain't happening anytime soon. But I am curious just what is it that Comic Book pros complain about when it comes to manga? The fact that it doesn't use colored pages for the most part? That it has to be read from right to left? Or that mangaka have the FREEDOM to craft the narratives and draw the art they want to with out some holier-than-thou puritans breathing down their neck?
They complain, by their own words, for the last reason you stated. But the REAL reason is that they are successful and have an audience that will support them, while the American comic pros don't have that. That's the true reason for their whining. Well, that and that the Japanese won't inject their toxic political ideologies into their work.
It makes my week every time I see a new video from this channel. Thanks Chuck!
Wow, thanks
Me too!
Tsurikichi Sanpei 釣りキチ三平 is so GOOD
Look...Manga has shit like where Tank battles are a sanctioned sport that high school girls take part in that involve live rounds but doesnt actually injure anyone cus reasons. And it's actually entertaining as all hell. Sell an interesting concept that isnt just superhumans dealing with being too super or too human
What manga are you talking about?
@@johnleone1996 The manga described is called Girls und Panzer. I'm familiar with the anime.
And when you know your tank history... That adds to the entertainment as well
@@DeathkaiserG Sounds like it does
This podcast was awesome. I loved the variety of topics and the level of thought behind all Chuck's thoughts.
Wow, your channel looks like it's finally blowing up, should have happened a long time ago, I love hearing your stories (and reading your comics)!
Thank you so much!
The real answer to the pouches question was that heroes were always pulling devices and weapons out of somewhere. And Art Adams created longshot. When he created him, he wanted longshot to have these throwing blades. And he didn't just want him pulling them out of nowhere, so he gave him pouches. This was a huge influence on Leifeld who gave Cable a shitload of pouches, because he also used weapons. Also the fact that weapons were becoming a bigger deal in comics because people using superpowers like ice blasts and things like that were kind of boring. The 80s and 90s was the era of sharp things and guns. Longshot had knives. Angel lost his feather wings and got knife wings. Cable had guns and needed places to store ammo.
I like my explanation better.
I always thought Ultimate Spider-Man worked well cause it was the closest thing to a Marvel manga, not necessarily because of the style but because of the lack of external continuity and the fact that creators stayed the same for a very long run. I think one of the things that ruins comics is the lack of creative direction and that's why my favourite comics are long runs possibly detached somehow from the rest of the continuity, like Punisher MAX or the early Ultimate titles. It just feels different when something happens for the first time in the Ultimate universe compared to it happening for the 50th time in the regular one. That's also why my favourite classic Marvel comics are the ones from the 60s.
If I had to think of one main difference between mangas and comics I'd say mangas tell stories in chapters like a book and they take way longer to develop characters and stories, while comics are derivative from the times where you could get an entire story arc in 20 pages. That's why you get 12 issue comic runs that fit inside a paperback which is smaller than the first volume of a manga series
ALL great points! Spot on.
I agree with pretty much everything you wrote. Manga stories are allowed to breathe and creators are allowed to tell the stories they want to write. Marvel books get rebooted yearly and DC will shove odd external stuff in at random, and then there's the ever present threat of retcons and rewrites down the road. You don't have that with manga. Manga are more like traditional book publishing but in a visual episodic form. Comics used to approximate it when a creative team would go for years on the same book and tell a cohesive story but now that doesn't happen. Plus Manga volumes are ~$10 a pop and always have like 200 pages of story. Now manga is usually black and white but overall it's just a better value for your investment of both time and money.
the funny thing is that most super hero mangas are a satire of western comic books, meanwhile DC and marvel try way too hard to force real life political agenda into a fictional world, they take it too seriously
Even Batman the animated series didn't take itself completely seriously.
20:34 Thank you, Chuck, for being spot on.
At this point Marvel and DC are gonna have to hit rock bottom to realize their mistakes, but lets face it they'll never learn. Manga get's it right cause you could read something like Fullmetal Alchemist or Attack on Titan and not be throat punched by an agenda while M and DC just want to shove the same thing over and over and over. I don't care about superheroes I want a story that's different not the same superhero regurgitated through woke frames. I know shits bad, I know we need diversity, but you know what creates diversity? Telling a story that's not about superheroes and instead something different and knew that doesn't push one side or another, but get's you to think or makes you not think it's amazing when you have the choice to think or not think when you read something.
Preach it!
@@Dixonverse Would you (Or are you) consider doing a batman manga/anime?
@@drakenpage777 there is already an anime movie super cool about batman, wake up!
@@jereee4732 i hated that movie lol
@@Dixonverse it would be cool if you worked with rippa on his comic
While I agree that US comics desperately need to produce a wider range of genres for readers, it seems the few non-cape books that are produced by smaller publishers largely do not get high sales. Why is it that these same genres seemingly do better when produced as manga vs when they are printed as American comics?
GREAT question!
because they are centralized, all those different genres are usually published in a single magazine like weekly shonen jump or seinen magazine and at the end of the last page there's a survey for all the different mangas that the readers can rate and send back to the publisher, if a series gets a high rating they gets released as their own volume, those that gets low ratings will get axed and the author will have to come up with a new story and character if they want to stay,
@@GEARZX90 There is an excellent manga that exemplifies that, it is a manga about making manga, if you are interested in looking for it it is called "bakuman", It is from the creators of Death note
The funny thing being that 20 years ago, Manga was seen as inferior and I was often looked down on by the comic community for reading manga. They called it “gay” and made fun of the art and stories. Haha. How the times have changed. Can’t say I’m not happy about it :) the anime and manga community is full of women!!
Time told on Spielberg.A lot of his "classics" are now completely forgotten.I was so disappointed with Jurassic park when i was a kid i wondered what the hell others were seeing that i wasn't?
Brother from another mother.
People are entranced by dinosaurs, that's it....
I agree with your reasons for not liking High Noon. I think 3 O’Clock High is a better version of the same idea and makes more sense.
I agree!
I am with you PEOPLE open Your mind I SUPPORT MR. DIXON
The old Comic creators understood what makes something a Super Hero, while current don't even understand what makes someone an ordinary hero. So creating something someone to look up to for the reader people love based on the most universal principles of that culture that left and right wing people can stand behind.
The road to redemption, the way how some got to earn their powers or when gotten them how to earn them and not let their ego get in their way. Knowing what the greater good is and what it is to believe in principles and live by them.
You talk as if those narrow-minded radicals will understand that.
@@nnnnmhughuuhhjiijj9457 One can wish for such things, can he not ;)?
I miss good DC/Marvel comics. I don’t even recognize them anymore.
why Because they are trash
Yeah Cameron hasn't made a good movie since the last century, but if the only 3 movies he ever made were Terminator, Aliens, and Terminator 2, that would be a pretty good legacy for anyone.
Yeah but he did also sign off on John Connor being shot dead at the beginning of that new Terminator. He approved that. And there's FOUR more Avatar movies coming in the next seven years! I get sleepy just thinking about them.
True Lies is not bad
I first was introduced to your work in CrossGen. love those stories and art.
American comics: We want DIVERSITY!!
Japanese comics: Sorry, we can't hear you over the sound of all the money we made from people who actually bought our stuff.
Came by your opinons highlighted on major news forums. Completelly agree. Subscribed.
Appreciated!!!
i am agree with you, Comic Book to focus on diversity in Character but forgot About diversity in genre, is doesn't matter how much you love fried chicken, if you eat fried chicken everyday you will getting tired of it, not mention They Will preach you about the ingredients before they let you eat your food, meanwhile manga had so many diversity in genre is like Buffet of every food in the world where you free to eat what you like, i mean there manga about manga author where they teach you about manga industry
I'm amused by the observation you made about handbags and straps and bands equating to the inability of the artist to draw well. Cracked me up.
You sure didn't hold back with your directors / comic situation opinions, a rare gem these cancel culture days. Thanks for that.
Loved it, engaging stuff.
I can't believe I just found out you had a youtube channel.
Why can't you believe that? Please explain
@@6pathuser344 old people usually don’t make videos
What Mr. Dixon is saying from 22:16 to 22:55 is too true and hits home for me. I will look far and wide on the internet for old and new graphic novels that don't feature flying men and women in spandex who can tank most armies with energy blasts coming from their eyes or hands. There was I time that I would look through the graphic novels in the inventories of what comic book shops I could find, however I stopped doing that when I found old Warhammer 40k graphic novels via the internet.
I now hope for a comic about vampires fishing on another planet.
Vampires with lots of pouches!
Aria is a manga about gondoliers on another planet. No vampires but it's really comfy and beautifully drawn. It had an anime too.
Now I kind of want to see the 5 hour director's cuts of the The Dark Knight Saga.
You're a sick man.
@@Dixonverse Yeah, but what if such a cut featured more of Batman-in-costume-doing-stuff, including kicking butt? I think the lack of such things is the main problem a lot of fans (including me) have with those movies. But then again, perhaps my expectations of such a hypothetical cut are unrealistic?
I’m here from Eric July’s channel youngrippa.
@Chuck Dixon This is less of a question and more a suggestion, assuming you have influence enough to effect the website; Why are the comics on Archaven always sorted first to last, with no option to put the newest at the top? I feel this makes it inconvenient to check whether the latest issue has come out yet as I need to scroll down
the popularity of manga can be a good thing for us comics. with the current state of non indie being stagnant and lackluster we may be looking forward to a rebirth of the industry breaking free from the cookie cutter mold that was put in place to protect profits and hopefully inspire fresh new ideas. one idea ive heard that i would love to see for example is super heroes just living their day to day life. imagine iceman literally chilling at a beach or superman going camping and getting swarmed by bees with a mildly irritated look on his face
deinonychus are bigger, more dangerous species of the same dino as Velociraptors. Velociraptors were kind of small, not like in the movie. Basically Crichton picked a very obscure dinosaur and Spielberg went with them but made them scarier.
Not exactly. For a very brief moment during the time 1980s when Chrichton was writing the book, Deinonychys' name was under debate. While the book version isn't accurate to the findings either, Crichton used the name that was valid according to some paleontologists that debated that Deino was a Velociraptor. However, by the time the movie was being developed, the issue had been solved and Deinonychys was being given its own separate name from the Velociraptor. Crichton and Spielberg knew this, and after some discussion, they decided to go with Velociraptor nevertheless because the name and description simply were better in their view. As much as Jurassic Park gets a bad rap nowadays for its scientific inaccuracies, Crichton did try to make it as grounded as possible as understood at the time of the writing of the book.
No one blames Crichton. Hell, he WANTED to call it Cretaceous Park.
I found you from @thequartering on UA-cam and I'm glad I did. Keep up the great work
Thanks for coming
Hey man. I love yor Batman run. I think it made me the good man I consider myself to be nowadays.
Superman's "Pal" Jimmy Olsen? "Frenemy" at best, "asshole" at worse...
Great video. Extremely insightful.
Is not just "something for everybody",its the ultimate form of media in terms of variety and "democracy". From borderline illegal sexual deviations to wholesome little stories about the simples joys of life,like the fishing one chuck mentioned. American comics are extremelly limited in this aspect. There is NOT something for everybody. In fact,touching some subjects that manga touches would be a gigantic no no from comic readers,or even considered boring or "meme-ish" and read ironically.. Another thing that makes manga stand out is the lack of "responsability with reality" and agenda. No i don't care about politics,real world issues or whatever. I don't want to read "twitter illustrated". No i don't want to be "woke".JUST TELL ME A GOOD STORY ACOMPANNIED WITH GOOD ART That is it. That's all you need to do.
I agree that High Noon was overrated. Way too slow paced for my taste. But one thing I do love about it, the general public did not pick up on the movies anti-anti-communist message. Instead the audiences took it as a celebration of individualism! Thus prompting it's writer to disown the movie!
I did not know that! Kind of like how Monopoly was created by socialists as an anti-capitalism game.
@@Dixonverse I was also surprised to learn that Jonah Hex was DC's biggest hit back then. But I'm a western lover (and writer) myself, so I can see the appeal of that. Too bad Hollywood couldn't make a decent movie of the character, even with Josh Brolin!... As for Manga v Comics. It's simple, the one that makes the better product will thrive. To be honest, the only superhero comics I was really into in my teens was the Punisher, back when Garth Ennis was writing it. His politics were pretty obvious too but not nearly the tripe we have today!
We just want good storytelling and not stuff overloaded with politics, it's like most of these writers are really just activists. We want to escape from real life and not deal with some of the stuff we are seeing in the entertainment lately. I haven't gotten into manga as much but I have been watching a lot of anime recently heavy and I'm really enjoying it. I really don't know where to start in manga outside of Berserk I hear that's a great one to get, I'm super green to that stuff right now.
As you said, we want escapism and entertainment. Currently these writers all see comic books as simply another platform and these characters as self-insert avatars for their politics. This is precisely what the japanese avoid and why american comics are circling the drain.
Samuel san,
I'm not sure what genre you're interested in, but I'd recommend "Natsume Yujincho - Natsume's Book of Friends" for one to watch.
You can watch it on Crunchyroll.
Berserk is great - goblin slayer is also fun. Gantz is intense too
You can read chainsaw man or 20 century boys
Try Fullmetal Alchemist, Kingdom, Vinland Saga, Monster, Death Note, One Piece, Hunter X Hunter, Attack On Titan, One-Punch Man, Silent Voice, Parasyte
The manga segment begins at 20:27.
Er, srry when do you talk abt the alternatives to the Big 2, in this or an upcoming video and can u say what are the exceptions or? Nice video btw, came from YoungRippa59 ig heh if u wanna know yh. Also what do you think about all the Bane adaptions over the years, like the Gotham show 1?
Just here to support a based badass, came here from The Quartering 😎👍
He talked about overrated and he didn't mention Sorkin... guys chuck is in danger!
Don't get me started on Sorkin! Too late!!!!
@@Dixonverse Get started or I'm going to have too and then i might go to court.
Love the thoughts on ads
Since you've spoken about the need for American comics to branch out into more genres, what would be the plot you'd write if Hallmark approached you to make write a comic called "A Pouch for Christmas?"
Ha ha! Hallmark Comics needs to happen!
Hello, I just wanna ask you a question. How do you feel about superhero comic artists intentionally making the main characters look ugly just to pander to the people they're supposed to represent?
Where do I start reading a particular Manga title?
At the beginning.
Where do I start reading a Marvel/DC title?
Ummmmmm....
I vehemently disagree with your opinion. Velveeta is delicious. Melt it and mix it with some salsa for a great dip on tortilla chips or veggies.
We all are as God made us.
Shell yeah!
just so you know the name for the dinosaurs Deinonychus didn't change to Velociraptor. Jurassic Park turned the Deinonychus into their Velociraptor because raptor meant bird and that went with their story. the two dinosaurs are still very different.
Are there any doujinshi in the US?
If doujinshi exist, I believe they will be revived one day if we take care of that market.
I believe that the doujinshi market is the truly free market, both in Japan and in the US.
If by doujinshi you mean self-published comics, like underground comics and indie comics, as the word means, then yes. Doujinshi exists across the world, with the most known one being Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
When I was in kindergarten, I used to play the Mutant Turtles game on the SEGA .GENESIS
I guess one day there will definitely be a second Mutant Turtles and American comics will be back.
I'd say the closest thing to the doujinshi scene in the US is actually webcomics. The US is so spread out that it's hard to have giant in-person sales like Comiket and other Japanese conventions. American conventions have some sales places for independent artists but they're kind of a side show or afterthought.
What if Chuck Dixon made a manga. That'd be legendary 🙏🙏🙏🙏
The representative fishing-themed manga he is referring to is "Tsuri Kichi Sanpei"
(Japanese Title: 釣りキチ三平)
People think the product of a comic is the art. It isn't. The product is the experience of reading a story. The art is like the acting or the editing in a movie. It's the method of delivery.
Combine the both and then, you get a great comic.
Whats the main difference between story and plot?
AWESOME question!!!!
The story is the aggregation of every narrative pieces including the plot, characterization and world-building. The plot is the overall events that the audiences follow.
So what do you think of the film Outland with Sean Connery and Peter Boyle? It was pitched as high noon in space. Is there a completed collection of WInterworld? Thanks
A much better version of the premise, imo, and makes more sense.
There are a few collections of WW available.
The two Titans need to fall for new gods to rise and bring prosperity.
Shamalan had originally planned 3 films, this was supposed to be the origin.
You know how over in Japan not every show is kid friendly. There is variety and something for EVERYONE. You think America should make some more mature animated shows based on comic book characters? Imagine a more mature Batman animated show?
That is why if was even in the field of comics id go to image or another independent or start my own imprint. Big comic is just like big chicken if u wastch the doc super size me 2 holly chicken you would see why thats a great comparison
Hey Chuck I don't know if you've talked about this since I just found your channel but how do you feel about recent stories with Tim Drake considering your the guy who wrote his series and created Stephanie Brown. You probably know the recent controversial story I'm referring to.
Saving ryans privates wasn't the best
But Band of Brothers and The Pacific is amazing
Band of Brothers is great.
The Pacific is ok, but with the loses in that theater you don't get the character attachment.
Saving Private Ryan is a good movie by any measure.
Thorfinn? Excellent choice
I have always find Batman very interesting and very unlike other American heroes.
Batman is the only American hero I like and would watch and not because of the aesthetics of the style.
Batman's story is intriguing.
Now I think it's because Chuck Dixon really has a lot of insight that other comic writers don't.
(To be honest, as an Asian, I don't find American super heroes attractive. Some even look very ugly to me for being too muscular. But Batman is a show that I'll watch and finish even when I'm not a fan of the art style)
What's your opinion on "The Shadow", him and "Doc Savage" are like the biggest inspiration for Batman.
The only thing that needs fixing about Manga, is the salary and the terrible work conditions to release a chapter, it is brutal with low pay.
I got into World Trigger recently and I was shocked/not really shocked to find that the author is suffering from a spinal cord disease (basically neck arthritis) that people get when they are 90 when he was 30.
As Marvel is a they want to make a copy want to make of Itachi Uchiha making them look ridiculous, Kishimoto created it for a unique antihero.
You're crazy, Chuck..High Noon is awesome!!
Hey Chuck, i was exploring your channel. I noticed your missing cover art on your channel you might wanna fix that. And your about me section is blank might want to fix that too
I know you might miss this question, but I'll ask you any way. Is it true that when you were a kid, you got into a fist fight with another kid because he liked the Adam West Batman show and you hated it? I thought I heard that somewhere. Also, I have another question, are you the very same Charles Dixon that wrote a letter that was printed in Fantastic Four 131?
Both are true.
@@Dixonverse you might already know this, but you weren't the only future comic book writer to have a letter published in FF 131. There was also a letter in that issue by Mike W. Barr.
Wow.
Buying Roman soldiers for $1.98?
Is this what, they mean by? When they say _"90s was a different time"_
how do you feel of fan-stories? i started doing my own cuz people would be changing the existing character's personality to fit what they wanted
In my opinion the best World War II film is Elem Klimov's Come and See.
I haven't seen "Come and See" but I have bee told it is awesome. At the moment my nomination for the best war movie is "The Unknown Soldier", specifically the 2017 movie (of which I have seen the original theater version, not the foreign theater version or the tv series version).
@@nikopursiainen9097 OH haven't heard about that movie. Thanks. In regards of Come and See although my favourite ever, I think Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent (1977) film is even better, she was the wife of the director of Come and See.
Rip Marvel and Dc
Chuck, If you had such a problem with Rob Liefeld"s art then why did you work for him? By the way I really enjoyed Prophet.
Thank you Nolan claimes to be a Hitchcock fan yet, his films lack his levity and charm.
Or logic, characterization, pacing.... Truffaut claimed to be a Hitchcock fan too and his homage to Hitch got everything wrong.
What's the fishing manga that you like? I went to look and there are multiple series about fishing. :)
Tsurikichi Sanpei
The Quartering brought me here.
Same
Aye
Does Chuck know Masakazu Katsura creator of the manga Shadow Lady is a big Batman fan?
I think Chuck and Masakazu Katsura should work together on something. He see manga success, I'm sure Masakazu Katsura would love to work with a former Batman writer on something.
That would be awesome!!
Basically agree on Christopher Nolan. The Batman movies he directed were always kinda flat to me.
Just slightly disagree with the genre diversity issue, Vertigo, Image, and Dark Horse offer a lot more but they fall under peoples radars. Great video
Manga rules
I need to know why you hate private Ryan so much?
20:30
GL/GA had nice Neal Adams art but I've always felt the stories were preachy. They have NOT aged well and it's particularly annoying for people who like the Hal Jordan character.
I despise preachy at least as much as "woke." Different sides of the same coin!
GL/GA also did tremendous damage to both Hal Jordan/GL and Oliver Queen/GA.
To his credit, O'Neil portrayed Queen as very flawed and far from the perfect "father figure" with regards to the way he reacted to Speedy's drug addiction. Still felt more than a bit over the top and very unsympathetic. The unfortunate impact of this is that Green Arrow is generally portrayed as contrarian for the sake of it with a bit of diddling jerk added to the side. At this point, he's had 2 kids out of wedlock but I no longer think that Connor Hawke and the baby are in continuity!
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GL was so badly damaged. At one point in the 1960s, I read that he was DC's best-selling character after Superman. GL was made the strawman in a time when the anti-authoritarians were liberals as opposed to today's "liberal/progs" who defend the establishment at all costs.
I have one or two of these stories in DC reprint collections but I've felt no desire to add the full reprint collection of GL/GA to my comics library.
The run comes back into reprint every 10 years. I'm sure it never sells that well... At best, it's a mediocre run.
Are you against politics in comics completely?
There's room in comics for everything. But I object to inserting personal politics into escapist fiction, particularly in legacy characters like superheroes. I've done political comic books myself but only in instances where that was the purpose of the project.
@@Dixonverse hmm, I see. Well that’s pretty reasonable. Also I loved your Batman work.
Don't really think Demon Slayers that good it's very generic but yeah manga is a lot better. Most of the manga I read are from the 80's and 90's and most of the newer manga are just rip off of old ones but they're still better than comics.
I feel the same about demon slayer and jujutsu kaisen but it seems that a lot of the better manga don’t want to be on shonen jumps physical copies but their online site. (I guess many authors are tired of competing for space on the weekly phonebook) Hell’s paradise was a good action mystery series I got into earlier this year. And Chainsaw man (which I really enjoyed) is also moving to SJ’s online store.
@@glorioustigereye I'll have to check out Hells Paradise and yeah Chainsawman is actually pretty good. Yeah...Jujutsu Kaisen just felt too familiar from past series I've read.
@@destinydueler Most of the depth in Demon Slayer flies over the heads of the western fans because of the Japanese themes, it's probably one of the least generic battle shonens in the last decade too.
@@armbaria Considering I've been reading/watching manga/anime since I was 3 and am now 30 and I mostly read shonen. I have a good grasp of what is and isn't original by now. Demon Slayer is very bland, it has it's moments but it's nothing special. It's basically just a mishmash of Kenshin and Inuyasha. As for the going over my head I find that laughable. All manga have japanese themes, hell the original Dragon Ball is full of Japanese and chinese themes. Not to mention I'm a big history buff and have to read every little thing that's referenced I am well versed in Japanese culture. I speak it semi-fluently and have visited several times over the years. It's just honestly I've read so many series over 27 years I really just don't find it special. If it's your first of tenth I could see it but it can't compare to DB, OP, Bleach, Naruto, Yu Yu Hakusho, Shaman King, Fist of the North Star, Saint Seiya, Buso Renkin, Ruruoni Kenshin, Magi, JoJo, Dr Slump, OPM, Yu-Gi-Oh, Devilman, Mazinger, honestly I could sit here all day and type manga I've read that have done what Demon Slayer has done and done it better.
I wonder, how it got so much popular?
39:52 Lol
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WHY DIDN'T DIDN'T YOU GO NEXT DOOR TO ARCHIE COMIC?
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いやいや日本の漫画がアメコミにどれだけの影響受けてきたか、、
アメコミの表現、世界観、政治経済世論から生まれる善悪の背景それらのテーマに飽きが来ても人間ドラマは永遠に続くんやしさ。
良くも悪くも非常に濃いですよね
ただそれゆえに万人受けせず、アメコミほど濃くなくともバラエティに富むマンガが好まれるようになったんでしょうね