How many are they? especially the popular ones.
The ones that I know (or at least, I think I know) are females
>Yuzuki n Dash
>Naomi Nekomata
>Cuvie
>Hori Hiraoki
>Rio Yanagawa
I know there's one manga artist that even has her own AV video (based on her own manga too)
>>135538839
How can you miss Hiromu Arakawa? Created FMAB & Silver Spoon. Also doing Arslan manga.
This OP is some serious pleb taste.
Q Hayashida
Yellow Tanabe
>>135538839
Rumiko Takahashi
ai yazawa
>>135539028
Probably because he listed nothing but hentai artists
>>135538839
Aoki Ume-tentei.
Namori
Sasuga Kei
>>135539401
Looks nice. Tell me he rapes her.
>>135539349
The lewdest.
>>135539349
And Umino Chica. And Kaoru Mori. And Miki Yoshikawa. And Mizuki Kawashita. And 99% of shoujo mangaka
It's really only male-dominated in the shounen magazines
>>135539438
maybe.Go read it
Kakifly? Hello?
>>135539528
>Those Bishi preportions
Pls no.
Hana Hook
asanagi
uran
hisasi
>>135538839
Wamusato Haru, I think
>>135539576
OP said female, not pedophile
>inb3 replying to tripfags
isn't Ballroom e Youkoso made by a female manga artist?
Toboso Yana
>>135539576
Hello.
Asanagi
Morinaga Milk
>I know there's one manga artist that even has her own AV video
Wut?
>>135539528
I will start it today. Hope it's good.
If we're talking hentai, I hear Napata is female
I heard Choco Chip is a girl, can anyone confirm?
>>135539869
Kaitou Pink
>>135540080
Don't know but speaking of VN's, the Clockup artist is female, the one who did Magott baits, Euphoria etc.
Harumi Chihiro
>Anime/manga is supposed to be sexist but there are plenty of female mangaka
>meanwhile the progressive and inclusive West has barely any females drawing mainstream comics
>>135538839
the mangaka girl who did the av's is kaitou pink
miwa ueda and koge donbo and keiko suenobo are all woman and my fav manga ka ever
>>135539757
She is cute in an Eastern German sort of way.
RIIIIIIIIIIITZ
>>135540171
God-tier art and even her stories are somewhat interesting. She seems to have stopped working on anything though.
>>135538839
Yui Hara
Kubo Mitsurou
Mizuryu Kei
>>135539507
Stop the presses. Females write female-targeted media, males write male-targeted. Who would have thought?
Takumi Na Muchi:
(No Pixiv but pic related)
Azuma Yuki:
http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=3473767
Sayori:
http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=104409
>>135540457
ReDrop is a chick?
Holy shit, she made my favorite doujin.
I wanna shake her hand.
Isn't Napata female, too?
What about the male artist who draws female-oriented works?
Anyone know some?
>>135540457
Is this legit?
Ritz
Kaoru Mori
>>135541025
Just look at shoujo manga and start from there.
Honey and clover mangaka is dude
.................................
Coincidentally, Sekirei mangaka is a female, which is kinda odd considering she got the boobs all wrong in her manga
>>135541075
Maybe she has a DFC
>>135541028
Mostly bullshit made-up without any evidence to back up.
>>135541028
List of guessing.
There is pen names that are used like circle even today.
>>135538839
Tsugumi Ohba.
>>135541046
She is pretty too.
We need more shoujo-like ero manga
>>135541345
That's just speculation. No actual proof.
>Cuvie was a girl
NO WAY HER WORKS WERE ONE OF MY FAVORITE TO JACK OFF TO
Is Tohzai female?
>>135538839
You mean hentai mangaka specifically, in other words.
>>135541046
Is Mori a lesbian? She comes off that way, sometimes.
>>135541075
Most Japanese women don't have them, anon.
Miki Yoshikawa (Yamada-kun) is female.
>>135538839
Who the fuck lists popular female mangaka and starts with literal unknowns?
>>135541904
they are all know hentai artist
>forgetting Yuki Urushibara
>>135541960
And nowhere near the popularity of
>>135539028
>>135539227
Or any other shoujo pioneers.
I'm always skeptical of people saying popular hentai artists are female. Only one I know for sure are the ones who became mangaka, the ones who have very definitely stated in an author page or post-credit "Yes, I'm female", or if their twitter/social media/whatever the fuck doujin circles use have photos of themselves. Its a classic rule of "pics or it didn't happen". The otaku market anime and manga is flooded with is way to saturated to believe some random retard on the internet claiming Asanagi is female or something.
>>135541824
No idea. She doesn't tell much about her personal life.
Honna, Wakou
she made nozoki ana (pic related)
one of my favorite mangos
>>135538839
Keep in mind that a lot of eromangaka play with the idea of being female in the same sense as /a/ is filled with little girls.
Judging by the art, you can easily tell which artists are likely to be female and which aren't.
>>135542131
This.
Not to mention that some also have fake pics, e.g. DaHootch posting a picture of "herself" for April Fools a few years ago.
>>135542354
The Putin's daughter pic?
After I move to Japan to be with my fellow otaku, I am hoping to date and marry a manga artist. Any advice for me? I am a talk, good looking white man and will be making $75k+
>>135542131
I don't really care if it's true or not, I just want to believe because it somehow makes the fap better.
Reading some good ol' Yuzuki N while thinking the artist is female and probably drawing out her own private, sick fantasies while self-inserting into the heroine makes it so, so much better.
>>135542576
>I just want to believe because it somehow makes the fap better.
I think that plays a big role in people claiming such things. It's a fetish to some.
>>135542576
Honestly if there was a cute doujin artist who made top-tier fap fuel with a character that looked like herself, I'd probably cream without touching myself. That's incredibly hot. Sadly, it'll never be the case.
>>135540242
Wamusato Haru when?
>>135538839
Sena Youtarou
Also I would like to believe than Shiwasu no Okina is woman but it seems unlikely to me.
Besides that I would put all my money on John K. Peta being failed med student venting his frustration through his work.
>>135538839
>OP doesn't even bring up Naoko Takeuchi or Rumiko Takahashi
>someone else at least brings up the latter but still no mention of the former
>search: Kozue Amano
>0 results
I hate this thread.
Booch is a cute girl
>>135545692
>Shiwasu no Okina
>all these posts
>no watashiya kaworu
>>135546517
Look at that sweaty wotas haha
>>135541481
heresy
>>135546517
left or right?
>>135546678
>>135546710
Spoiler this.
>>135546710
Good to see the best hentai mangaka looks the part.
>>135542291
>'judging by the art'
>'easily tell'
>>135542703
Sayori did some lewd images with her self insert.
>>135546517
What the fuck
>>135542048
The only good one so far.
>>135547831
You must have missed this post >>135539141
>>135542261
Oh man, she made my dick harder than diamonds.
Katsura Hoshino
She has some top tier drawing skills.
>>135548942
Lots of NTR and ballbreaking though
Does Namori have public pictures yet?
>>135541075
>Honey and clover mangaka is dude
Umino is a woman, she's just really shy and ugly.
>>135540234
There are some good female Euro artists/writers but the majority of American ones are terrible because they're so wrapped up in superhero social justice bullshit or making bland autobiographical/self-insert comics. There's no variety.
>>135538839
do hentai artist count? if yes, there is Crimson
There's that chick who made Himegoto, Norio Tsukudani.
And the author of that jesus n buddha manga, Hikaru Nakamura
Nitta Jun
>no mention of Shiruka Bakaudon
>>135538839
Holy crap, she's good looking. Damn.
Ohtaka
>>135555557
>>>/r9k/
>>135555557
I'm really glad you didn't get lucky there
>>135555557
>>>/r9k/
>>135553125
That's not her.
>>135538839
It's already been busted that the chick in OP's post is NOT Yuzuki N Dash.
>>135556362
The best obasan.
>>135552973
all that shota
not for me
>>135539028
>FMAB
Norio Tsukudani is really cute.
possibly Mojarin
>>135539652
>asanagi
>She
On C89 showed a pic its a guy
>>135540457
>Alpha
>>135546710
I wonder how she felt when she looked at the picture and saw the face of discomfort.
Are we talking about female mangaka in general or just female hentai mangaka?
>>135538839
Kaitou Pink under the name Rina Yoshiguchi.
https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=2194
James Hotate a female?
Norio
>>135542291
And pray tell, how can you 'tell apart' male or female artists just by looking at the art? If it has cutesy and flowery shit it's female? If it's manly and hotblooded it's male?
Pic above is Magi no Okurimono, by a male artist. And below is Dorohedoro, by a female artist.
"Easy to tell" my ass.
>No Nadeko Sengoku
>>135541481
Source?
>>135541025
Yeah, I'd like another season of Nozaki-kun too.
Ninomiya Tomoko mukyaaaa!
> you will never be a female ero mangaka's penis model
>>135558582
He's right to some degree, bad/amateur female mangaka often make different yet common mistakes when compared to their male cohort.
>>135559552
Not a female author, but related to your post. Also now officially 1 year without updates.
>>135559691
>bad/amateur female mangaka often make different yet common mistakes when compared to their male cohort.
Like what?
>>135558533
That's not Norio Sakurai in that picture, that's Shizuka Umemoto.
>>135538839
Most shojo mangaka.
Not H-manga-related but I've been a big fan of Aki Eda. Gonna buy all available volumes of Bonnouji from my local bookstore next week.
>>135538839
Ryoko Kui (Dungeon Meshi)
Also I heard that Inio Asano (Oyasumi punpun) is a transgender.
>>135559691
If you're talking about yaoi proportions, female artists have long since get past that problem.
The point is that there is no such things as male or female 'artstyle'.
>>135538839
>>135542576
>Yuzuki n Dash
>Female
Holy shit
I wonder if she holds incestuous feelings towards her little brother.
>>135562195
Yuzuki N Dash has been known to be a female mangaka for years.
Though the one in the pic is not her.
>>135562039
>Also I heard that Inio Asano (Oyasumi punpun) is a transgender.
He's not.
Cuvie looks likemy mom
>>135562633
Really. Do you get to look at your mom's art and story?
>>135563892
nah, but here's Fukumaaya
>>135539932
It's not even close to being good.
>Dude tries to rape her
>Apologizes
>"Okay but don't do it again".
The fuck?
>>135542261
I knew it. I loved that manga. One of my most favorite reads.
>>135559691
Both males and females are capable of having some really fucking horrid anatomy and drawings. Also, one may think that they can spot the difference, while you can in some cases it's not always the case.
Kyou Hatsuki.
i just recently found out that pic related author and shut hell was was a woman
>>135564843
15 years later I still can't get over Dorohedoro artist being a grill.
>>135565082
I think it makes a lot of sense somehow.
It's subtle, but the series really benefits from having a female mangaka.
Now she just needs to fucking finish it already, I'm not waiting forever between releases anymore.
>>135564348
Evey josei ever.
Anyone know if Yoshimura Kana is a girl? I can't tell from their twitter
>https://twitter.com/yoshimurakana/
A reminder that Umino and Miura are loli buddies.
>>135567256
And he did her a favor in return.
>>135558582
It's incredibly easy to tell by just the art style. Women also are a massive fan of the "endless black hole" style of pupil. The first one is really obviously male drawn.
>>135562102
There totally is. Men seem to emulate and get inspired by the works of men and women tend to get inspired and emulate the works of women. There are two completely different baseline art styles going on between male and female, and if you gave somebody who read a lot of manga any page from a random one they could likely tell you the sex of the artist. Or at least, any page with a focus on a character.
Asami Sekiya
>>135568199
>Easy to tell by just the art style
>Doesn't say how, probably just guesswork
>>135539490
The shortest.
She's basically Yunocchi without the hairclip.
>>135568534
Lines are thicker, faces are softer, eyes are "Deeper" if that makes any sense, pupils are usually drawn as solid black without lighting accents, male faces are usually drawn pointed even if they aren't "bishounen" the list goes on.
>>135568719
Is that for men or women?
>>135568846
Women. Really, most of the main differences are in the faces and eyes. Other than the generally different line work.
>>135538839
Kobayashi Ritsu
AKA: Mangaka of Lesbian Dragonball Mahjong Z: Schrodinger's Panties Edition
>>135564348
Women don't hate rape nearly as much as we're led to believe, hell most of them even like it if it's a good looking man.The only reaosn why women pretend to hate rape is because they know their cunts is the only thing that gives them any value to society so they use it to gain leverage over men.
Rape is only sex it makes absolutely zero sense for women to hate sex unless all women naturally hate men and they only love them as providers.
>>135568615
SMALLEST
>no mention of Natsume Ono
There's some genre conventions the opposite sex (for their works demographic) sometimes tries to go against (or conform to, IE adding sparkles and bubbles to shoujo, even as a male author simply because it's an established convention). But the art or story alone isn't enough to indicate authors sex.
Best indicators might be when dealing with issues related to that sec only, but that can easily be overcome with research or just asking people.
>>135569270
>anon criticizes plot
>hurr durr womyn are evil
Nice fucking derail, retard. Did you forget which board you're on?
>>135568615
Is there more?
Do you guys know about Kumiko Suekane? She made the manga Afterschool Charisma and is about to do another one, I think the title is Versailles of the Dead. She's also the character designer of Ace Attorney, at least the first one, Viewtiful Joe and maybe other video games too. And let's not talk about the many yaoi manga and doujinshi she drew. I thought that since she did a bunch of things she could have been well-known but this doesn't seem to be the case.
Also, why aren't there any mention of CLAMP?
>>135573414
CLAMP is obviously female.
Does anyone know the gender of NNB's author? I'd be REALLY surprised if it was a male.
>>135573507
I know, I mean they're the first artists I thought of when I saw this thread which is why I'm surprised nobody mentioned them yet.
>>135558582
good use of a logical fallacy of finding the the exceptions or outlyers. Each gender does have a roughly consistent style due to what area of drawing they are in, shoujo, bishi, shounen... that is why this generalization exists in the first place.
>>135573588
The OP listed hentai mangaka first so I assume this was just a "let's point out the unexpectedly female artists" kind of thread. So CLAMP being posted early in the thread is not really expected
>>135541039
Also her girlfriends.
>>135573546
Not like you wouldn't like it, you faglord.
>>135573546
http://atto110.blog40.fc2.com/
I can't read moon so here you go.
Miyabi Akino might not have a nutbladder, but she sure knows how to stimulate one.
>>135560273
sauce?
>>135564749
She drawn cake a nd Milf porn?
>>135540234
If mainstream comics mean everything besides the superhero niche then there are quite a lot. Raina Telgemyer outsells Batman but gets no mention in the Marvel and DC centric comics press because she actually makes comics for kids.
>>135565082
Is this shit done yet?
Author of Love Lab is a woman and she always takes 1st on the character popularity poll for some reason
>>135573546
http://nartis.exblog.jp/13533166/
Takatsu Karino
Kuroda BB
I really want to know how Nakajima Yuka looks like.
>>135578319
So it's a guy? Jesus.
It's hard to believe a guy managed to write something so comfy between 4 girls in the boonies.
>>135574604
I can't either but thanks for the help.
>>135579805
>>135580235She's cute.
![hiromu-arakawa-140214b[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/HTZ8IPx.jpg "hiromu-arakawa-140214b[1].jpg")
To be fair some of the best love stories have been written by very romantically unsuccessful people.
Just think of happy things, remove negative, and you're left with comfy.
What I find more worrying is Kakifly and how he made K-on.
>>135538839
>>135580397
Forgot to add relevance of my picture. Ever like it when someone starts looking a bit of an ara ara?
>>135569270
>>>/pol/
Your specific brand of retardation goes there.
![bakuman-wallpaper_149065-1920x1200[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/srVmg9J.jpg "bakuman-wallpaper_149065-1920x1200[1].jpg")
>>135538839
“Men have dreams that women will never be able to understand”
>>135564843
Wtf. The author of hotd is a friggen woman. Or are you talking about the artist?
>>135577206
>not recognizing the art style instantly
>>135582489
Nope it was the artist of koukaku no shugosha and shut hell is a woman. Never mind.
>>135538839
>people still think that is yuzuki n dash
I guess it'll never get cleared up
>>135578040
Almost, the final encounter is about to begin. Pretty much every single major character is about to be in one place at the same time.
Morishima Akiko
>>135569270
>A woman being "raped" can easily deter her "rapist" by pooping
Every time.
>>135540234
>>meanwhile the progressive and inclusive West has barely any females drawing mainstream comics
Nobody want to read a comic with Tumblr tier art, fanfic tier writing, and themes of equality, no h8, acceptance for all genders, etc cetera., stuffed down our throats in every panel.
If Westener female artistis discard that mentality, then perhaps some decent female artists can come out of the slumbs of this "grrrl power/feminist" movement their going through.
The only female artist I can think of that I like is Cube who wrote Let's Speak English and Kiwi Blitz. Her comics are tuly entertaining and readable.
>>135584621
Not like western males are drawing anything noteworthy either. Friends dragged me to a new comic store that opened in my town the other day, holy hell the edge. It was just oozing off everything.
>>135541075
>.................................
Fuck off and kill yourself.
![bw_1_preview_final-3_4[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/hPzzsh7.jpg "bw_1_preview_final-3_4[1].jpg")
>>135584747
J H Williams is pretty good.
>>135538839
Isuna Hasekura
>>135565082
yeah but she's the type of girl that finds gore and satanic shit cute. Dorohedoro would be grimderp if it was done by a male.
>>135546710
For a chubby, she's a cutie.
>>135584869
>>135538839
Let me fill you in on something.
The amount of manga which gets scanned or translated only scratches the surface of a MASSIVE pool of content which is created in japan.
Japan practically prints more pages of manga than they produce toilet paper.
There are tons, TONS of female mangaka, most of the draw manga which is targeted to women, and women are a strong consumer force in the manga scene as well, a lot of Shonen manga have primarily female fan bases due to all the attractive male characters.
There are magazines which feature all female artists, there are publishing companies which cater to female artists, its a big deal to say the least.
But these are just female mangaka whom outwardly show their femininity, many choose to hide behind a pen name, which could indicate that the number of female mangaka is larger. Many Yoai/Bara mangaka are women, but also many hetero hentai mangaka are also women, some even doing loli manga (pic related was made by a popular female artist)
In japan, at least in the consumer world of japan, all genders are equally pandered to, and money rules above all else, if someone likes something, you can make money off it, regardless of who you are, what the subject is or who the consumer happens to be.
You have to understand though that the perceivable spectrum of manga which westerners see is a TINY portion of the manga on the market, and sadly tons of manga which is targeted to women just doesnt get scanned or translated which makes the content seem scaled more towards the male demographic, when in reality that isnt the case.
>>135584869
That is some King Diamond shit right there
![sandman[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RSkC7ks.jpg "sandman[1].jpg")
>>135585027
Jesus, M8. If we were going by edge that's a fair few manga artists that gif could be used for.
Here, same dude, different thing.
>>135585070
Yep, and the same mangaka can definitely do a lot of different stuff too. Takewakamaru (circle RIRIADOLL) is great, she's does mostly yaoi but also did some of the more interesting yuri of the last few years (too bad it got dropped, but it was interesting to see her try it).
>>135584747
>Not like western males are drawing anything noteworthy either.
Well, yeah. I limited it to female since this thread specifically is about female.
Males aren't exempt either. Everything is ninety percent shit. Morrison is either a genius or only good when he is on drugs, Alan is either a hypocritic or a hack, and etc cetera.
Takemiya Jin is a good female mangka.
>>135584747
>holy hell the edge. It was just oozing off everything.
literally everything Garth Ennis has ever done
>>135545946
>search: Kozue Amano
>one result
>it's the post I'm replying to
Abandon thread
>>135540242
i fapped to this again just a couple of days ago. it's really good. the main scene is great.
>>135542576
what's better is that she seems to have modeled her more generic-looking girls after her own looks. i mean, look at her in the OP pic.
>>135585070
I'm always dismayed by the ignorance of most Western fans when they think anime/manga are all battle shonen and girls in revealing outfits. I doubt there's a 2D Western medium with as much topical diversity as manga.
>>135538839
Is kazue katoh female?
>>135540234
Comics in America are almost nothing but capeshit trash. No wonder the average female artist wants nothing to do with them.
>>135586602
Comics are also utterly bereft of any creative dignity or recognition beyond the insular, incestuous subculture that keeps the industry alive.
Manga have the benefit of being a mainstream medium with a very broad and almost universal readership, whereas comics are pretty much exclusively bought and read by the western equivalent to otaku. Nobody goes into their adulthood and seeks a career where they do nothing but pander exclusively to the sweaty manchildren that the rest of society tries very hard to pretend doesn't exist.
>>135585070
Indeed.
http://facweb.cdm.depaul.edu/noriko/JapanTrip08/JETRO-market_info_manga.pdf
>Manga makes up approximately 20% of magazine sales and approximately 27% of book sales in Japan, and has become a genre that supports the Japanese publishing industry.
http://comicsalliance.com/why-dont-we-talk-about-manga/
>Another problem that manga and comics share is being defined publicly by a single genre. While comics have always been incredibly diverse, the common perception is that all American comics are about superheroes and all manga is shonen (boys’) manga about endless power-ups, yelling and punching. Despite this perception, a wide variety of manga often make the New York Times bestseller list.
>“I also suspect,” Aoki says, “that some of the resistance to manga is the … fact that manga and anime fandom is perceived to skew toward female fans/creators/buyers. That’s not exactly wrong — manga readers are pretty much 50/50 male/female, if not 40/60 male/female sometimes. This is no accident. Manga has a lot of great stories that appeal to female readers, and not just the ‘girly stuff’.”
>>135586707
That must be a factor of why webcomics aren't as popular in Japan right? Those with enough talent can potentially become mangaka while in America it seems more difficult to draw what you want unless you go full indie.
>>135586857
There also aren't as many comic publishers in the states. Japan has countless publications ranging in size and renown and demographics and has things like weekly/monthly magazine serializations and whatnot.
In America, there's basically a handful of very, very large publishers that publish everything in one format and for one audience. Marvel and DC are the american equivalent to SJ and they're similar in that their approach is to design by committee and have their own editorial and writing staff handle the creative side of franchise management while the artist gets no creative control beyond drawing it. If it doesn't have the potential to become the next hollywood blockbuster movie adaptation, they want no part in it.
>>135585512
Good ol' Sturgeon's.
Dave McKean, Andy Kubert, a few others I could name that did work on some Vertigo published titles too.
But honestly I can name far more Japanese women artists than Western women artists.
>>135587343
Well you're on /a/. If you knew more about western art than japanese art I'd ask you why you're here and not on /co/
>>135587384
Because /co/ is terrible but I do dearly love my Sandman, Lucifer, DMZ, Batman singular stories, Chew, Fables.
On the other hand a shelf full of manga too, mostly CLAMP stuff.
>>135539490
The best.
I hope she does a magical girl series one day.
>>135587523
>Fables
Have you read the ending yet? What did you think?
![[MahouShoujo+yesy]_Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica_10_[1280x720p][x264][aac][53220588].mkv_snapshot_17.35_[2011.03.13_13.51.37].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Gq66N74.jpg "[MahouShoujo+yesy]_Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica_10_[1280x720p][x264][aac][53220588].mkv_snapshot_17.35_[2011.03.13_13.51.37].jpg")
>>135587673
uh...
>>135587673
>I hope she does a magical girl series one day.
subtle
>>135587714
No I was given them for Christmas along with CCS.
I look very forward to it.
>>135587821
Lucky dog, hope you enjoy it.
>>135587884
I got given 4 of them, and a 2 of Chew. But Sandman, Lucifer and DMZ are fully complete.
However I was given all of CCS, so still pretty lucky. Collecting the other 18 volumes of Fables will be done over a very very long time.
Comics are far more expensive than manga by a long shot.
>>135587812
>subtle
?
PMMM doesnt count, she only designed the characters. I want something written by her and drawn by her.
Ritz (artist/writer of Saki) is a secretive lesbian mangaka mahjong nerd hermit.
>>135540171
my nigga
No one mentioned NON? The one artist that manages to throw /a/ into a shitfit about muh harem, muh women's rights?
>>135577953
You do realize that you can name only one American female comic artist that can sell like that. Right? As opposed to Japan where there are multiple.
Also, her sales aren't even that much in the American industry.
>>135584621
But there are female artists who don't do that and still barely get any notice or hyped as much as their male counterparts.
>>135540234
The U.S. is very sexist. Comics were considered and marketed as 'boys only' up until manga came and a shitton of women were reading/buying it.
Now they are trying to grab onto a more diverse market since catering to solely white males is proving to be not as profitable. Problem is that the people in charge are still producing the same shit, because they won't hire different types of editors.
>>135585226
Yeah, but the difference is that it's not the majority of manga, just a few. The problem is that most American comics are so fucking edgy. Don't you think it's a coincidence that anything remotely 'dark' and 'violent,' or noir, is so fucking popular in the states? It's annoying. Even as much as I love J.H.'s art the over saturation of that genre is annoying. I haven't read Sandman for that reason either.
Like, I just can't.
>>135588536
That and much of the staff at comics companies are sexual harassers.
>>135588643
Yeah, pretty much. It's either an obsession with highschool or violence.
Shit, that explains some of the more popular manga or anime in the west with a lot of a more broad demographic.
Battle Royale
Gantz
Elfen Lied
Mirai Nikki
Tokyo Ghoul
>>135588643
the west needs more cute SOL type things?
What prominent male shoujo artists are there? It seems like all the shoujo mangaka I hear of are female or are at least using female pseudonyms.
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>>135589003
Anon, Bill Watterson retired a long time ago, those times are gone.
>>135589095
And how we have suffered for it.
Just look at newspaper comics now, 50 percent zombified shit like Rex Morgan MD, 50 percent MS paint doodles made by the wife of a newspaper editor.
>>135588643
>>135588946
That would explain the influx of zerofags. It makes sense.
>>135540234
Thus why feminism will never harm anime/manga. Not enough victim points for agitators.
>>135588536
>>135588821
Unfortunately the fact is that it can take a good part of a generation to change an entrenched industry that's stuck in a local minima, sometimes you just plain have to wait for the old guard to literally die out (or at least retire). Plus there's the issue of globalization and local specialties that make it even harder at this point. In the 70s, 80s and even early 90s if westerners wanted to read a larger variety of stuff local was the only major choice, and in turn there was a captive market. If the industry had chosen to be more innovative at that point there would have been more room to grow and start small and work their way up. Now though anyone who wants more variety can just plain go get it from Japan, so rather then starting from zero comics have to deal with a very experienced, diverse and mature concentrated industry elsewhere. It's the same basic economics you see play out in other fields, like the USA in a lot of software dev. Despite the market outside the USA long since becoming gigantic and critical and despite the best efforts of lots of other countries American firms simply have a much deeper well of experience and structures to draw on.
>>135568615
Post here face faggot, that could be anyone.
>>135589226
Zero?
>>135589095
>>135589226
>Bill Waterson
Looking back it's actually pretty amazing what that one, single artist accomplished in the newspaper comic industry, he singlehandedly forced a lot of good practices that helped stave off its total decay by possibly decades. I got all his books back in the day and it was really interesting to read about his behind the scenes fights against the shitty standards of the medium, how he started to insist on not having his stuff fucked with which gave him way more creative room.
I respect him a ton not just for what he did, but what he DIDN'T: he decided not to do the standard big cash in by making TV or movies or tons of merchandise or whatever, nor to just keep the thing going as a zombie forever once he decided it was done. That's one of the real keys to the manga/anime industry, that they're constant FINISHING stuff and moving on. The gigantic multiyear epic franchises are a tiny minority, so even when lots of it is inevitably crap it doesn't stick around, what works gets used and what doesn't fades away. Creative destruction, as opposed to the complete allergy to new IPs that is so common here.
