Manga Burnout? - Sep 13, 2007 - 03:47am
Interesting article. I don't think manga will disappear since it's self-changing as it is: if "moe" style stories go out of vogue, then something fresh will be there to take its place.
Note, I fear you've got the term "tankobon" wrong. It's the prettier, keep-forever versions of the manga, not the newsprint-printed weeklies or monthly books. They're not all that collectable (not say, like doujinshi) but they're available, which is important.
P.S. your registration system for comments is awful. If you lightened up on comments you'd find you got a lot more of a community going.
Interesting article. I don't think manga will disappear since it's self-changing as it is: if "moe" style stories go out of vogue, then something fresh will be there to take its place. Note, I fear you've got the term "tankobon" wrong. It's the prettier, keep-forever versions of the manga, not the newsprint-printed weeklies or monthly books. They're not all that collectable (not say, like doujinshi) but they're available, which is important. P.S. your registration system for comments is awful. If you lightened up on comments you'd find you got a lot more of a community going.