Why are comics anthologies not a big thing in the U.S. like they are in Japan...

Why are comics anthologies not a big thing in the U.S. like they are in Japan? How has no one managed to copy this very simple and successful business model in the land of school shooters and mobility scooters?

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American comic book industry refuses to adapt because they make most of their money from delusional "collectors" buying alternate covers for every new issue 1.

They existed but failed. Sounds like you're too young to remember them. In the case of USA it was even called "Shonen Jump", but one of the big drawbacks was that it was a monthly schedule for weekly chapters. In germany we had multiple of those magazines, and they all failed as well.
You say it's very simple, but we're talking about a telephone book sized magazine under $4 released every week in all of japan, as well as china and korea. There is nothing simple about it.

You have to follow the business model exactly. It's like lean manufacturing. You have to be merciless toward authors, willing to drop them as soon as their ratings tank, or the system won't work. Japan's system works because it is merciless in ways that Westies find ugh and like totally problematic.

cuase paper would cost to much in they way the print stuff in the us. jumps published on news paper paper and its in black and white while burger comics are all about being as prestigous and a collectors item as possible.

The reason manga magazines thrive is because affirmative action is not a thing. No one gets a top slot in a magazine because they're a zoosexual Nubian cripple. You have to be better than everyone else, period.

take your meds

I'm gonna extrapolate a little bit more.
OP, at the height of WSJ's popularity the magazine had 3 million readers, nowadays it has 1 million. Take into consideration that these magazines have to be edited, printed, distributed. Even with the 3 stages of recycled paper WSJ uses, there's little profit to be had here. The magazines exist as a launchpad for manga, which in turn then get sold, merchandise gets made, anime etc. That's where the money is. Not the magazine.
They tried to copy the business model, and failed miserably. When the "manga boom" started at the beginning of 00s, they *immediately* tried to copy the magazine model. And none of it survived.
Do you honestly believe that americans would buy a magazine with "toilet-paper" quality of paper?
Do you honestly believe that such a magazine could be sold at less than 5 bucks, while manga themselves already cost double, if not even triple, the amount they do in japan?
Do you honestly believe that there are enough readers to justify such a business model?
Do you honestly believe that this business model even makes sense anymore in the digital age?

If your answer is yes to any of these questions, then you live in an idealistic fantasy world, far far removed from reality.

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Take your hormone blockers.

take a bullet to the brain

American comic books went the quality route, with color pages and better paper. They literally can't make them as cheap as manga. They could definitely make them cheaper than they are, if they were operating at the scales manga does, but they shit the bed in so many ways, and that is just not the case anymore.

the speculator bubble burst a couple decades ago dude, now it's just farming events

>You have to follow the business model exactly. It's like lean manufacturing. You have to be merciless toward authors, willing to drop them as soon as their ratings tank, or the system won't work. Japan's system works because it is merciless in ways that Westies find ugh and like totally problematic.
WSJ isn't the entire manga industry user

>Japan's system works because it is merciless
This is only true for WSJ. Every other magazine is far more lenient. And there's dozens upon dozens of them. Highly specialized too. Like Kindai Mahjong, which only runs mahjong manga (most famously Akagi). There are "salaryman" seinen magazines too. There's no concept like U19 or early axe there.
The people that publish for these magazines are often not even full-time mangaka, they do part time jobs on the side.

He is talking about comics, not manga
And anthologies with comics do exist

>Why are comics anthologies not a big thing in the U.S. like they are in Japan?
because it's literally a dying model even in Japan

Can I get a source on the West's attempt to copy the manga business model? Did they try whole system, with questionnaires, rankings, one-shots, weekly serialization meetings to cut stories and bring on new ones quickly, etc? I assume every author was on contract and not an employee. If employees are a factor in the U.S., the system doesn't work due to tax laws and due to the fact that the company can be sued if there isn't wide enough gender and ethnic representation.

Dilate.

>because it's literally a dying model even in Japan
they are switching to digital retard

>went the quality route

Cool, so why is manga doing better than American comics...IN AMERICA?

In the past comics used to come in anthologies (there were magazines called Action Comics and Detective Comics for instance, with multiple series). They were much shorter than manga magazines though from what I know. I imagine people stopped buying them, which is why they mostly disappeared. I recall recently I think DC saying they might start an anthology magazine, but I don't know if that's still going to happen. People who read comics as they come out are just used to the current business model of buying each new chapter separately and it likely also makes more money than if they started doing magazines.

Hey man I'm not saying they're better, I'm saying they make them in color on not-shit paper. Read words, use brain.

Magazines, in both digital and print, are dying out

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No, but it's the part of the industry that actually matters i.e. influences world culture. Also the part that makes money. Everything else is no different from indie comics in the U.S.

its just DB and Slamdunk end that made this irreversible fall

This feels like a question you could've asked in the 90s. People can't be assed to even buy ANY physical magazines these days.

Back in 2010 or so, if you asked me, the future of comics were webcomics. I'm not even sure if that's the case anymore. Look at the absolute biggest webcomics ever, and they're all either crash and burn stories, or transitioned into something else.

Penny Arcade? Known more for its conventions than the comic.
VGCats? Draws horrible, horrible porn on Patreon. Not even worth looking atl.
Homestuck? Jesus Christ, I am probably risking a ban even typing that word.

because only rich nerds collect comics

Nah. It's contracted, sure, but it's not dying. Certainly not compared to U.S. comics, which it dominates.

All those anthologies DON'T USE A DARWINIAN BUSINESS MODEL. If you want to make a successful anthology, you must have a completely ruthless Darwinian selection process: independent authors constantly battling each other to continue, until you get stories that exactly perfectly match your target demographic's tastes.

>more trans insults
got any other material or is that all you got?

How do you know the inner business workings of comic magazines in the 30s and 40s?

I mean, it's not exactly a secret. Read The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

> OP mentions comics
> Brings up the US Shonen Jump
I don't think you really understood what was being asked...

To answer the OP, manga fans are conditioned to reading weekly chapters on essentially recycled toilet paper in black and white, which allows these anthologies to be fairly cheap. And if they want them higher quality they can then go by volumes.

Comic fans are more used to colored pages and high quality books. I'm not sure if they would be okay consuming comics in a similarly "cheap" format. The exception for this being web comics