According to an article entitled "The Fall of Manga and Anime", from the site www.ign.com, Jessica Chobot writes that, "It's time to say the thing that Japanophiles and otaku aren't supposed to say: I am bored to tears with manga and anime here in the US." For any anime lover and a manga fan whose paying even small amount of attention, it is obvious that TokyoPop isn't the only one struggling. Geneon too has always been essentially dissolved that ADV is having been oddly silent of late which could be good or bad for them, but if you will be judging on how some of their fellow competitors are faring, chances are. In fact, these only two publishers seem to have found some stability and success. Viz, with their massively popular shojo and shounen titles, and Funimation, with the never ending Dragon Ball Z and that One Piece franchises alongside some quality live action movies. It still seems somewhat disconnected from what really made manga and anime flourish there in the states in the first place, its because of the wide range of fans. Various distribution companies, having caught on to the fact that girls like me were spending their hard earned dollars on shojo titles, I also wanna do that but I'm earning for something better, that instantly fans bombarded stores with pile after pile of anything and of course I wanted that also and all that romantically inclined manga in the hopes of chasing the craze.
Now I see why with most Western publishing companies are pushing every license they can get their hands on, these companies that shouldn't be in these game are attempting to stick their foot in the door for no good reason. Other companies are trying to to fill this void their having or establish new genres of manga and anime in order to keep creating their cash. Simply that US buyers and fans all over the world have always become overwhelmed with a water drowned product or a fire burning merchandise, or whatsoever. Shojo manga magazines just sells over a million copies a month in Japan, but many American retailers don't realize that shojo manga is the fastest growing segment of the translated manga market in the U.S. Thus the segment of the U.S. market that most closely approximates the way manga is done in Japan, which is shojo manga and perhaps that is why it is growing quickly, because shojo is just heart touching.
In another article called "Japanese comics and cartoons, manga and anime, growing in popularity with American teens", from the site www.threesixtyjournalism.org, Lisa Fan writes that, "Manga first started appearing in libraries around seven or eight years ago, and has increased dramatically in last five years." I agreed that people like me are attracted by manga easily because of the variety of stores, so magical like I'd always say that it provides, and it holds much more of a variety of emotions rather than other types of books. When it is asked about the benefits of manga it holds for its reader is that manga gets kids reading more and inspires people to create it themselves like me again, I'm practicing in making a manga such as through fan drawings. It gives people a feeling of community and expertise, and allows for entertainment and emotional release. That I usually do when I'm drawing anime characters I let my emotions out. The popularity of the anime conventions in Minnesota and other countries has certainly grown as well like in Singapore, Japan of course and many more. They also have this event called cosplay, which means costume and play put together. They dress up like an anime character, or in manga, or in pop culture figure and do role playing like posing, talking, and even fighting like the characters would. The popularity of manga, especially manga clubs and events, has really emerged these last several years, and continues to do so. It is definitely something to look into if you have an interest in any manga and anime.
Based on what I have read, manga series can run for many years if they are successful. Manga artists sometimes start out with a few one shot manga projects just to try to get their name out. If these were successful and have received good reviews, they will be continued. While magazines often have a short life. As many people will read manga to find relief from reality like I always do, female characters in manga are usually either talented or fortunate in order to help readers get satisfaction. Although there are sometimes they have to choose between love and a career, they always overcome such obstacles and gain both, which means Japanese women are not willing to lose either of them. That Japanese manga artists usually do not draw reality itself, but instead they draw a developed version of feminism so that the female readers like me may enjoy it through imagining of feelings and actions of another person.
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