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You are talking about some south Korean politics who I frankly don't care about, and compare that to western police having too much to do? Remind me again how this has anything to do with how people not liking e.g. isekai is detrimental to the Japanese culture.
I doesn't have to do anything with it. I was just responding to you talking about how all the topics I'm mentioning are "speculative".
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How is it bad when consumers of a medium say: okay, we kinda had enough of this can we have something new soon?
When the people demanding that this "change" happens is an overwhelmingly small part of the market that is supporting the company, or when those demanding change are not even a part of the company's core market, or when the company somehow becomes popular so you have an influx of people who only became a part of the market because it was popular.
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Most of those look pretty lame IMO, if I'm being honest. 3rd-year kimengumi and Ninja Rantarou are the only two I'd really care for and it's because I sort of already know what they are already.
Okay, getting a better idea of what you're looking for. Does the exaggerated art style also play a part in it?
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I mean, back on topic if you like most of these, more the power to you, I'm not saying they're bad even, just, not what I'm into. I expressed pretty clearly that in regards to what I like.
I haven't read a single one of those series that I pulled up. I was searching for stuff for you.
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Transdude1996, that is a great collection of extra-funny manga. I'm going to save it to select some to read.
All...I...did...was set tags to "Gag", "Episodic", "-Male Demographic with Female Lead" and "-Cute Female Lead", selected "Only show manga with at least one release", and selected the genres as "Comedy" and "Shounen" while excluding "Drama", "Harem", and "Romance". If you leave it with the bare minimum of what AkumatsuT seems to want (Set tags to "Gag" and "Episodic", selected "Only show manga with at least one release", and selected the genre as "Comedy" )
you get a larger list.
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Is it really that surprising that someone uses tags and filters when searching for something?
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But notice that the list covers 26 years. Maybe the truth is it's really, really hard for anyone to create excellent and/or extra-funny manga hits. That could be why the manga artists of any given time period concentrate on churning out whatevere manga are the current fad. About 10 years ago the current fad was harem manga. Now it's "called to another world" manga.
With the expanded list I provided above, the two oldest series that come up are
Doraemon and
Fushigi na Melmo, both of which started in 1970. Also, as I said, there's still numerous series out that that are unaccounted for that the site doesn't list, as well as dozens of series already listed here that are not properly tagged or receive insufficient tagging.
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What is going on seems obvious. Manga-creation is a job by which they hope to earn a living. You can't be brilliantly creative every year of your manga career. Every year that you can't be, you have to turn out something anyway. That's why a snapshot of what's being published at any given time will contain mostly mediocre and a lot of junk manga.
Hate to say it, but a lot of the "best" series Japan produces isn't really original. When the West released
Star Wars,
Battlestar Galactica, and
Star Trek, the East responded with series such as
Macross and
The Most Irresponsible Man in Space (
Captain Tylor). When things like
Blade Runner and
Mad Max came out, it was followed up with
Ghost in the Shell and
Gunnm. Also, it probably doesn't help that the prime trio from back then (
TEZUKA Osamu,
AKATSUKA Fujio,
ISHINOMORI Shotaro) all died, and the current "elders" of anime (
MIYAZAKI Hayao,
ANNO Hideaki,
NAGAI Go,
SHIROW Masamune) are otakus and/or favored drawing erotica.
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Also, I remember hearing that Shirow gave up the gig altogether after losing his studio in the tsunami a few years back.
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