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Sep 11, 2024 7:31 PM
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I get that manga originated from Japan, but why cant mangaka from other countries' work not be considered 'real manga'? I mean seriously, it just seems like a bunch of dumb gatekeeping to me, people need to stop worshiping Japanese culture as if it's the one true savior and get overthemselves. An american-style comic created in Europe would be a comic, would it not?
Sep 12, 2024 4:35 AM
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Is it gatekeeping or is it protecting?

Kinda reminds me at the gaming industrie where Devs/Companies abuse well known game titles to promote a sequel of it and ruin everything by creating utter woke bs which has barely anything to do with the prequel.

Now why do you wanna use the Term Manga? - To live in a skyscaper instead of building something by yourself.
How do you think it will end up if it would be the norm that western animations would be called like that. - Woke as Gaming did.

And stuff like that can ruin things, look at Ubisoft, look at the company developing concord. All deserved and good consequences, but it took Years to finally have consequences like that.

So better protect Manga right away.
And I do not even read Manga, but I am into the gaming scene since 1999 and it would be fully comparable.
Sep 13, 2024 9:47 PM
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Is it gatekeeping or is it protecting?

Kinda reminds me at the gaming industrie where Devs/Companies abuse well known game titles to promote a sequel of it and ruin everything by creating utter woke bs which has barely anything to do with the prequel.

Now why do you wanna use the Term Manga? - To live in a skyscaper instead of building something by yourself.
How do you think it will end up if it would be the norm that western animations would be called like that. - Woke as Gaming did.

And stuff like that can ruin things, look at Ubisoft, look at the company developing concord. All deserved and good consequences, but it took Years to finally have consequences like that.

So better protect Manga right away.
And I do not even read Manga, but I am into the gaming scene since 1999 and it would be fully comparable.
@EcchiOtakuGal I'm not gonna lie your argument doesn't make sense to me, mainly because you keep using the word woke which has lost all meaning. please describe your thoughts without saying woke as it no longer means anything. your comparison also doesn't really make sense. if an American has studied manga and creates manga that if read side by side with a japanese manga would be hard to tell the difference by, would it not be a manga?
Sep 13, 2024 10:20 PM
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@EcchiOtakuGal I'm not gonna lie your argument doesn't make sense to me, mainly because you keep using the word woke which has lost all meaning. please describe your thoughts without saying woke as it no longer means anything. your comparison also doesn't really make sense. if an American has studied manga and creates manga that if read side by side with a japanese manga would be hard to tell the difference by, would it not be a manga?
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you keep using the word woke which has lost all meaning.

Leave your bubble, nothing more to be said.
Nov 20, 2024 6:51 PM
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Its not even like they can claim it's for any specific "manga/anime is japanese" reasoning now anyway with the additions of manhua and manhwa. They should just let stuff like manfra be eligible already. Maybe specify it must be published in Japan or something.

Its just so silly that there aren't any plans to include manfra even though they get published in Japan like Radiant, that's even got an anime. Has MAL gone from Japan only to Asia only instead, and still doesn't allow it? If so, that's just silly gatekeeping at that point. It's pretty frustrating that I can't track a traditional shonen manga cuz it's French but Chinese yaoi webtoons can be the 8th highest rated manga with like 6k fujoshis reading it, like where are the priorities 😓
Nov 20, 2024 6:54 PM
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@KingNoahTheThird
KingNoahTheThird said:
you keep using the word woke which has lost all meaning.

Leave your bubble, nothing more to be said.
@EcchiOtakuGal I dunno what to tell you bro but normal people who don't live in bubbles themselves don't go around calling things too woke and just talk like real people
Nov 28, 2024 10:51 PM
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I agree with KingNoahTheThird, but I'd like to ask where would we draw the line between "manga and alike" and "comics".

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