So I have this copy of the Ghost in the Shell mang... er... com... er... let's just say I have a copy of the first sort of type Ghost in the Shell thing ever made, published by Dark Horse Comics. It's drawn like any other manga, but it's been flopped (it was printed and published long before manga was a thing in America) so that it reads like a western comic. Should I put it with my western comics or with my manga tankōbon?
Also what exactly makes a manga a manga and not a western comic? The art style? The direction that you read it in? It's place of origin?
its literally just a comic from another country
Manga and comics are literally the exact same thing.
>>159980196
Fuck off and kill yourself, cancerous newfag.
>>159980599
But why are people so salt about it
manga is just comic books from Japan, just like anime is just cartoons made in Japan. just put it with your other manga. I would insult you, but it wouldn't change much.
>>159980196
place of origin
>>159980196
Manga has to be made in Japan.
/a/'s mods are a suicidal type of cancer that says anime/manga is only anime/manga of its made in a particular set of countries along the eastern Pacific seaboard. Somehow works made in a different country but in a similar style specifically designed to appeal to that same group of consumers are met with "anime ja nai" and topics pertaining to such works are deleted.
/m/ handles such situations with ease and grace compared to /a/, the latter of which whose behavior would be better suited for /jp/.
>>159982196
Seconded!
I'm just really fucking mad that we can't discuss Castlevania and Samurai Jack with the actual /a/nons who watch it instead of those fucking trannyfaggots over on /co/mblr
>>159982196
Gee whiz, could that be because anything with a robot in it is /m/, but anime and manga only refer to media that are Japanese in origin?
The criteria for manga/anime are as follows:
1.) conceived of by a Japanese
2.) produced in Japan (or has production overseen by a Japanese studio)
3.) intended for consumption by a primarily Japanese audience
If it doesn't satisfy at minimum two of the three, it's not anime/manga. It's either manhua/chinkimation/manhwa/Koreamation etc. from elsewhere in Asia, or else it's Western shit trying to wring money out of gullible underage normalfags who like anime but don't know how to use any site that isn't Tumblr.
>>159982669
>implying any tru /a/non watches those
bait?
>>159982669
Tough shit for you. Neither of them are anime, so suck it up, buttercup. I'm as down with Jack as you are, but it's nothing more than a cool cartoon with a heavy chanbara/anime influence.
There's also /tv/, so why not take it there? You have two potential boards to post this shit on; keep it off /a/.
>>159982826
>criteria for manga/anime are
completely arbitrary and written down no where one this website
Also,
>manhua/chinkimation/manhwa/Koreamation
get semi-weekly threads
I wish I could discuss Turma da Mônica Jovem here.
>>159982948
>manhua/chinkimation/manhwa/Koreamation
>get semi-weekly threads
they should get their own board