>>108959579>excluding comic book film adaptationsGood, because I wasn’t talking about movie adaptations.
>so much money could be made off of advertising if they knew what they were doingI agree. A lot of comics would do better if they marketed them better, or better idea if they were distributed to places outside of just comic book shops.
>the audience for manga is so much larger than that of comic books. It doesn’t matter how big it is if no one is buying shit. If you look up bookscans charts and articles, and compare those numbers to Comichron sales and the numbers manga do in Japan, you’d see how small the market really is in terms of sales in the US.
>i can't even say i personally know a single person who's read a comic book in their life, but almost every teenager has read manga before.I could literally say the same thing: most people I know hasn’t read manga all that much. And those I do know who do read tons of manga don’t BUY manga, they read online for free.
>also, contrary to what you think, manga as a whole is not "insanely popular" in Japan. probably less than 1% even sell 10000 copies per volume, which is essentially lunch money for a mangaka. many manga do far better overseas than in Japan.That doesn’t seem to reflect on sales in the US. Tokyo Ghoul, in Japan and China, sells millions of copies every year when it was published (idk if it’s finished by now). In the US, specifically, it barely sells 200k in the whole year. Naruto sold millions in Japan, but it was selling fairly around the same numbers as Spider-Man or Batman around the late 2000’s and early 2010’s. One Piece doesn’t even reach enough sales to be charted in US sales most of the time, while in Japan and China it’s the biggest manga ever.
