How is manga so popular in France?

I like how they named honzuki no gekokujou there, it sounds cute.

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France already loved comics. Manga in France is a subset of that.

Do they have a french translation for ashita no joe?

is learning french an easier way to open more doors for reading manga?

Yes, although it's only 12 volumes, I don't know if that's because the volumes are longer (like how Jojo has the Jojoniums) or if it's because it got dropped.
I mean I guess it is? It certainly has a lot more translated stuff than English does but if you're learning a language for manga wouldn't you be just as well learning Japanese?

Official? Yes.
Its easier since you don't have to memorize new set of characters and especially not kanji. How you would obtain those books however is a different question. I'm not even aware of French eBook stores. Then again I'd rather learn the source language for it than another target language.

Anime and manga have been available in France since like the 70's

Probably because of Bande dessinée, consuming japanese comics/cartoons was more acceptable than in other countries

French weeb here.

Back in 80s the french public TV wanted to show cartoons for children. But there were some issues :
1 - French animation studios suck
2 - It's expensive

So, they bought a lot of anime from Japan because it was cheap and qualitative.

Then naturaly some book editors start to translate mangas for this brand new type of customers ready to buy everything.

You're not wrong, I'm just more confident I can learn French in a year compared to how much I would learn Japanese in the same timeframe

Reading requires much intelligence compared to just watching animu.

I think learning isn't the problem here, accessibility is. There's no proper place to pirate the french releases since French people barely pirate manga. I'm not even sure whether you could import books from France unless you live in Canada like you can in case of Japanese mango.

>if only the U.S. didn't get fucked over by that Comics Code
Not this boogie-man again, it hasn't had any teeth since the 70's. Also european comics did not gain its foothold based upon showing tits, it did so by focusing on graphic novels, telling longer cohesive stories, just like manga.

>Japanese want to be more of French because they thought French are romantic
>French want to be more Japanese because cultures
Hmmm

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What about subtitles ?

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Healthier comics culture.
No Diamond Distribution Monopoly making mangoes twice as expensive (and a year late) for no reason.

I don't know about America/Canada but Amazon France sells them and Amazon UK also does, I feel like Amazon US might but I'm not sure.

Can someone explain what is the diamond distribution monopoly? I keep hearing it but I'm a dum dum...

>1 - French animation studios suck
>2 - It's expensive
This. Even 70's cartoons which people think were made in france like 'Once Upon a Time... Man' was animated by japanese studios, same with Ulysses 31.

Meanwhile japanese people who visit Paris end up with the 'Paris syndrome' where they end up feeling sick and vomiting as they realize current day Paris is a dirty shithole filled to the brim with blacks and arabs.

All comic books sell through a single distributor to stores, Diamond. They're known for being awful for both consumers and comic shops but they have a monopoly that the US government allows to exist. (Recently DC made waves by ending their partnership with Diamond).
Diamond isn't why manga is so expensive, translation and profit margins are. Manga barely sells in English speaking countries aside from big battle shounen stuff so they have to make it expensive so that they make more per unit and remain profitable.

Learn japanese so you can buy volumes for $6 instead of $13.