Mangaka can express their stories without any political limitations. Manga surpasses anime, film and video game industries in delivering an author's true intent with minimal to no censorship whatsoever. There's no Sony California telling mangaka not to draw characters too sensually, or social justice media blogs like Kotaku or Polygon influencing mangaka to write about sensationalist topics forcibly, or to neuter the author's intent of a story that may be offensive to certain people but appeals to others.
Writing and I'd argue music have more freedom of expression, but as far as visual narrative art is concerned, manga is probably the easiest to consume with the least amount of taboos
Mason King
>untouched Japanese manga has been English translated for English speaking audience. It's only a matter of time before the trannies are out there cancelling random Japanese author on Twiter because there are not enough Niggers and gay depictions.
Camden Bennett
Fuck off back to your safe space Zig Forumsfags.
Samuel Butler
But that's complete and utter bullshit. Editorial staff has enormous control over manga plots. You must be completely clueless to think that most mangaka have creative freedom.
Unless you read only doujinshi and pixiv manga you're reading stuff that's just as neutered and designed by committee as all western media, it's just designed with different sensibilities in mind. The things that are censored and not allowed in manga you don't even realize because you're so ignorant.
Bentley Foster
What a gay thread, I'm glad my life isn't so empty
Jackson Long
Animefags already triggered by sheer facts, nice
Noah Miller
Yes there are, you stupid weaboo. They're in japanese, and no one cares enough about them to bring them over, so it just fuels your bias. And plenty of the mainstream stuff gets censored in Japan anyway. Soccer moms, overprotective/projecting men, and sensitive people are eternal and international.
Adrian Nguyen
Still more creative freedom than everywhere else, even with an editor guiding you and giving you tips.
Camden Morris
>music has freedom of expression Sure, but if you want your stuff to sell your music needs to be trash. Good music doesn't sell, unless it's old. Ever heard of "editors"? If editors don't want an author to do something, they aren't allowed to do it. Even bigshots like Togashi and Araki were held down by editors at some point.
Jaxon Green
Teenage girls have complete creative freedom writing about gay sex online but they mostly don't make money of it.
Josiah Jones
Creativity is only limited by resource. You want untouched creativity? Try Archive of Our Own, Webtoon Challenge, Twitter, Instagram, or anywhere else where the artists are motivated by exposure first
Alexander Harris
I've heard of many cases where an author was able to convince his editor to get more creative freedom, even mainstream ones. On the other hand, it's far easier to convince just one person than entire committee and multiple staff members like it'd be the case if you're making an anime.
Nathaniel Myers
>Reads Translations >Talks about author's true intent
>creativity Everything manga ever did was rip off older Western comics. There's no such thing as an original concept that came from manga. But of course braindead weebs won't know this.
Brandon Perez
Ah yes, the corporate hellhole where mangaka live in constant fear of the axe and series are designed to go on forever is the bastion of creativity. Op, have you by any chance heard of these things called books?
Josiah Hernandez
>the corporate hellhole where mangaka live in constant fear of the axe and series are designed to go on forever is the bastion of creativity Only the bad ones
Parker Ward
Go back to your cancerous containment board, capeshitter.
Alexander Rodriguez
>Still more creative freedom than everywhere else Eroges have more creative freedom than you manga. There is no manga story on pair with Muramasa or Subahibi or Dies Irae. Or even fucking Umineko. Even nukige has more things to say than your shitty haremshit manga because they put sex scenes, problematic jokes and shit.
Capeshit is literally the direct inspiration for most of your manga. And concepts done in manga have already been done by Western comics beforehand, cope more.
Owen Rogers
>what are editors Most manga already fall within the social justice narrative without even needing some corporate moderation, because believe it or not, social justice is seen as a good thing universally.
Luke Gutierrez
As opposed to reading the original language, obviously.
Cameron Roberts
>OP is so brain poisoned from the internet he thinks manga, anime, film and vidya are the only forms of media. Has literally forgotten what a book is. impressive
Jayden Hernandez
Read past the teen demographic.
Ian Mitchell
>It's all I ever consume anymore. no wonder you're braindead
Gabriel Parker
Oh you mean "mature" seinen manga for matures? Melodramas, fujoshit and other discount doramas for housewives trying hard to look mature? Or what, blast from the past like "2001 Nights" that was made during golden age of SF genre across the world? And now has zero audience and unprofitable?
Wyatt Kelly
>so up your own ass that you don't realize that OP was only talking about entertainment medium
Wyatt Johnson
maybe true but the American publishing industry is completely obsessed with IDpol
Jacob King
>books cannot be entertaining
Chase Jones
>reading >entertaining Go back to Zig Forums
Dominic Mitchell
Let's not forget that manga is medium where you can't even tell full story instantly like with most books. Your manga can be published for five years or ten years or even more. Like soap opera
Dylan King
Once Hollywood entered videogames and comics everything went downhill. They are looking at manga now as their next target.
Leo Jenkins
>what is self-publishing why do you go out of your way to read/watch shit you disagree with and know you'll hate?
Henry Morris
And at any point of story your series can be cancelled because of low ratings. Nice freedom
Tyler Johnson
>>/lit/
Benjamin Young
>repeat same shit several to dozens of times to fill in the time >''''''music'''''' Retard.
Gabriel Richardson
Hopefully there is not an "Art council" that decides if a work is "degenerate" or not and thus must or must be not fired either. But meh whatever
Christopher Martin
Your "muh editor" point gets invalid once you realize that web comcis and self-published series are a thing as well. And like some another user itt mentioned, convincing a single person is still less of an obstacle than trying to convince an entire committee
Joseph Stewart
>anime, manga cannot be valuable cause muh secret club Kill yourself.
Sebastian Lopez
>self-published series Name me 30 self-published series that have any merit of being self-published series.
Caleb Gutierrez
>Mangaka can express their stories without any political limitations Show me a single manga that's critical of the Japanese emperor.
Anthony Jones
Yes, they're all allowed to include sex.
Nathan Lopez
Also with self publishing you can get away with writing your chuuni fantasies unrestricted and somehow get an audience for it.
