GekigangerV
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The reason why I bring this up is because a buddy of mine went to a panel hosted by Dark Horse at the most recent Fanime, and it was about what people geek out over, and it branched out to a discussion about the state of the industry today. Or what people find most appealing.
The people at Dark Horse talked about how they wished to get a hold of the Golgo 13 manga if Viz lets go of the license, but Dark Horse acknowledges (and I sadly agree despite being a huge Golgo 13 fan) it could never do well state side and brought up some reasons I feel I can relate to.
He also brings up Samurai Executioner/Kabukiri Asa (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=4291) and Lone Wolf and Cub (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=1329) as his other examples and how they should be called "man"-ga, because they would be way too masculine for the mainstream/casual and even hardcore audiences outside of Japan.
Think about the animes that are popular today. People are getting more into the moe animes and the action animes that people watch today are where the characters (both heroes and villains) are emo (you know characters like Cloud and Kadaj in Advent Children, Sasuke in Naruto, and Kira and Shinn in Gundam SEED).
How many non-Japanese audience members are likely to have read or seen Hokuto no Ken and Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken in relation to Naruto and Bleach? Is it because they could be too manly? Or is it because people who hold the licenses don't push them to the mainstream audience enough? Or is it simply because of cultural differences in the idea of masculinity between Japanese manga readers, and Non-Japanese manga readers?
The people at Dark Horse talked about how they wished to get a hold of the Golgo 13 manga if Viz lets go of the license, but Dark Horse acknowledges (and I sadly agree despite being a huge Golgo 13 fan) it could never do well state side and brought up some reasons I feel I can relate to.
He also brings up Samurai Executioner/Kabukiri Asa (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=4291) and Lone Wolf and Cub (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=1329) as his other examples and how they should be called "man"-ga, because they would be way too masculine for the mainstream/casual and even hardcore audiences outside of Japan.
Think about the animes that are popular today. People are getting more into the moe animes and the action animes that people watch today are where the characters (both heroes and villains) are emo (you know characters like Cloud and Kadaj in Advent Children, Sasuke in Naruto, and Kira and Shinn in Gundam SEED).
How many non-Japanese audience members are likely to have read or seen Hokuto no Ken and Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken in relation to Naruto and Bleach? Is it because they could be too manly? Or is it because people who hold the licenses don't push them to the mainstream audience enough? Or is it simply because of cultural differences in the idea of masculinity between Japanese manga readers, and Non-Japanese manga readers?
