Why do the French get so many series most American fans have

>>155669532
because the french have a large domestic comic industry that isn't just piles of capeshit

>>155670599
The American market has diversified in recent years though.

>>155671422
American comics are either capeshit or pretentious hipster pomo shit.

>>155671925
whats pomo? unless you meant poRNo?

>>155672150
He means postmodernist, and he's right.
Garbage philosophies and theories like intersectionality, deconstruction and critical theory, underpin most Yank graphic novels.

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>>155669532
>Americans will never appreciate Tetsuya Tsutsui's work

>>155672734
>intersectionality
cause its a very controversial topic that every person know ii from the sjw to the muslims and so on.and you probably dont need much imagination for. im not really defending it but thats why. im just guessing but america is probably the least imaginative country.

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>>155673327
What's so controversial about it? All you have to do is wait for the light to change and look both ways before crossing.

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>>155673564
google said social identites.

>>155673676
Let me guess, it's some sort of multi-dimensional oppression by the patriarchy?

>>155671925
Luckily there is still Dark Horse

>>155673859
Yeah, I sure enjoy reading Hellboy and its infinite mediocre spin-offs.

>>155673763
You can try to be as cute as you want, but you'll only end up looking stupider than the ones you mock.

>>155670599
It's not just that though. Many of the series the French get official releases for are series that don't even have scanlations in English.

>>155669532
It got introduced earlier to the mainstream public on national TV.

While oldfarts in suit said "Fuck those gook doodles, our 100% American cartoons are much better"

>>155669532
Fucking French fags, they have completed localizations of kawaguchi kaiji's " a spirit of the sun" and "zipang". Both of their English scanlations are dead, it's not fair!

Maybe you should stop buying into the meme that English has everything. It's not hard to rationalize when you don't look at countries like /int/. Why SHOULDN'T France have an industry that can rival English speaking countries, they've been weeaboos for centuries.

>>155675196
And on the flipside, the Japanese are obsessed with France.

>>155674150
considering that anon is mocking feminists, I find it very unlikely

>>155674150
Why, he's basically right, the idea is that the straight cis white man is oppressing everyone else through every aspect of the society we live in, and hence one persons struggle against their oppression should actually be everyone else in the world struggling against the straight cis white man.

>>155674267
That's an unrelated matter. There are plenty of series that have official releases even in English that don't have scanlations in English. And many series that have scanlations in English don't have official releases in French, either.

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>>155675196

Yes, the USA view on the rest of the world has always amazed me on how condescending they can be. There's a fuckton of cool shit realized on other languages, absolutely better than US capeshit, but they never acknowledge that.

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>>155675196
>Why SHOULDN'T France have an industry that can rival English speaking countries
Because all things being equal, they wouldn't. Of course all things aren't equal, but "Why wouldn't a vastly less common language have far more translations of manga?" is a dumb question.

>>155677225
Same thing with movies. Americans refuse to watch dubbed or subbed foreign movies even though the rest of the world does.

>>155673207
Fish City?

>>155677225
>3D image
>Facebook filename
Fuck off.

>>155677493
How are those English speakers distributed? Comparing France to the US, France simply has more manga sales.

>>155678545
> How are those English speakers distributed
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but it should be common sense that there are far more English speakers in the US than French speakers in France.

>Comparing France to the US, France simply has more manga sales.
Yes, I'm not disputing that, I'm just saying that treating that like it's an obvious outcome is silly. The reason it's like that is because France has a disproportionately large interest in manga compared to the US.

>>155678648
A lot of those English speakers aren't all in one country, and selling manga is a county to country publishing scenario.

>>155678840
Wikipedia says there are 230 million English speakers in the US, as opposed to 65 million people in France total.

>>155678928
Whoops, should clarify - at-home English speakers in the US. Significantly than that are fluent in English, presumably.

>>155678928
And then it comes down to the sales again. manga translated to French and released in France will sell more then English released in the US. 65 million frogs are worth more manga dollars than 230 million burgers.

>>155679125
Yes, I've clearly agreed about that several times now.

>>155679172
>but "Why wouldn't a vastly less common language have far more translations of manga?" is a dumb question.

>>155676477
I took a class in Gender and Literature last semester and it was pretty interesting. The professor made the argument that it's not cis white males oppressing everyone, but the social systems that benefit cis white males. And because humans are slaves to tradition we can't (or rather we refuse to) dramatically alter those social systems to set things right, and not even cis white males truly control those systems any more.

>>155679220
Yes, it's a dumb question. The factors against them having so many translations should be obvious to anyone. They do have so many translations, and I've acknowledged that's because of their disproportionately larger interest in manga, but it is an unusual outcome, not the default. That's why treating it as self-evident that France would have so many translations is silly.

>>155679403
>let me talk about my classes and what the teachr said about social systems
Not /a/-related, retard. Take it somewhere else.

>>155679542
Fuck, you're right, I didn't mention waifus or manga-vs-anime once in my post. There's no way my comment about gender as literary subject matter could have any relevance to the medium of comics.
I guess I should leave this board in the hands of competent people like you.

>>155670599
This.

U.S.A. still thinks of comics as either newspaper comics or capeshit. Nowadays there is a third category, manga, which most people consider either Naruto or porn (or both). If it isn't a cheesy daily comic, isn't capeshit, or isn't shonen, then nobody is going to buy it simply because the audience isn't looking at comics for that sort of thing, and the audience looking at comics aren't interested in it.

France has had a long history of comics for audiences of a wide variety of ages, and so when there is a manga about parenting or economics, then it can find its audience.

You also aren't going to shock the French catatonic by showing a nipple or implying that 16-year-olds kiss.

>>155680091
>tfw the US used to have good comics in the early 20th century
>tfw capeshit ruined everything

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>>155670599
fpbp

>>155677493
>>155678545
>>155678648
>>155678840
>>155678928
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>>155679125
>>155679172
>>155679220
>>155679542
>>155679737

I wouldn't say that it's a thing of quantity, it's more related to quality. Frogs, europeans and other nations are more intelligent and educated than burgers, thus they read more. Just facts.

>>155681560
Wait, is that image for real?