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Except Japan is filled with titles that tackled topics like racism and politics, many of them big sellers because the manga industry has a more diverse market filled with different genres than the American comic industry. Even popular titles like One Piece tackled bigotry. https://twitter.com/HappyWarriorP/status/1347271246929686531
One of the bestselling titles in Japan right now is Moriarty the Patriot, a Sherlock Holmes prequel with Professor Moriarty as the main protagonist that tackles the corruption of Victoria era England's class system.
The manga industry had featured topics that were considered "woke" since the 60s when Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy used the human-robot relations storylines to tackle topics like bigotry.
in one of storyline about robots leaving mans world for their utopia was openly compared to the immigration of Jews to what's now Israel.
Also Superman Smashes The Klan was a top 10 bestseller in many stores.
https://www.comixexperience.com/news/2021/1/1/comix-experience-best-sellers-2020
https://www.reddit.com/r/superman/comments/i8p6u8/superman_smashes_the_klan_makes_the_top_20/
https://www.comixexperience.com/news/2021/1/1/comix-experience-best-sellers-2020
https://www.reddit.com/r/superman/comments/i8p6u8/superman_smashes_the_klan_makes_the_top_20/
Basically, it's not the politics or topics like racism that's the issue, it's the EXECUTION.
What I'm saying is, do better research on this stuff before you write articles like this.
What I'm saying is, do better research on this stuff before you write articles like this.
Franchises like Gundam and Legends of The Galactic Heroes were founded on concepts like politics and war.
Manga has diverse art styles, some prettier than others but each have found a major audience fir themselves.
Manga has diverse art styles, some prettier than others but each have found a major audience fir themselves.
