>>122302107The thing is, the manga setup works because it has so much diversity within its many failures. They aren't afraid to have a weird story come out, nobody likes it, and it dies. In turn, however, they do things like one shots or weird ass stuff with strange settings and when it turns out popular it keeps going.
When was the last time american comics came up with a unique setting? I don't mean just an alternate universe with a different timeline, but an actual unique setting as different as say the world of one piece?
The failures in american comics are usually just minor characters trying to get their own run, and there's very little room for those types of things because the settings are all the same as the bigger comics and half their popularity comes from crossovers or cameos from bigger names. When every new thing come with the baggage of not being allowed to out power superman, outthink batman, outsarcasm spiderman and has to find a place in the setting to exist without overshadowing or breaking stuff it has very little room. The result is often just a minor riff off the existing popular stuff with no room to really innovate or take many risks, and it inevitably ends up failing for the same reasons over and over. If you want to see the japanese model you need to be willing to ignore continuity, how things fit into the overall setting, and crossover style stuff and just let new superheroes be new superheroes with new settings and none of the existing baggage. Make these new things cheaply and without care for how it meshes or whatever. You'll get a lot of failures and dumb stuff but along the way you might do like japan and find some settings/characters that people really like and are willing to be interested in without the big names lending them popularity.
