In Japan, comics have come to be a respected format of entertainment where every age shows no shame reading comics in public. Comics in Japan are put out on a weekly basis in a 550 page anthology with up to twenty series with multiple genres and stories that appeal to all age groups.(even the elderly) The price of these anthologies in Japan is merely $2.50. That's $2.50 for 15-20 comic titles that are twenty to thirty pages each. My question is this, would people in America accept this format of comic books? Would a weekly anthology containing 15-20 new and quality titles be appealing to anyone? Would anyone give it a shot or is it just a bad idea? Is modern youth too stuck on video games to even care for comics?
Poll: Would weekly comic anthologies in America work?
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I don't know; is the US version of Shonen Jump still running? I'm pretty sure the US Shojou Beat has been gone for a long time, and I haven't exactly seen an issue of Shonen Jump lately.
In other words, they already tried it, at the height of the US anime boom. If someone could figure out if it's still going, that would give us the answer.
Edit: Also, I just noticed that this is your first post. Welcome to The Escapist. Follow the rules, proofread your posts, and don't advocate piracy, and you'll do just fine. But please, stay out of the basement.
Edit Edit: And a quick Wikipedia search says it's still around, but that it's a monthly magazine, not weekly. In all seriousness, I doubt such a niche market could support a weekly periodical, but the monthly version seems to be doing alright.
Final Edit: (Boy am I being a bad ambassador here) As for the rest of your question, I'd certainly pay $2.50 for a weekly comic book of that size; monthly comic books, which are about 20 pages long total, often run as high as $7.00 around here. It's the main reason I don't read comic books. If DC or Marvel (or heck, Dark Horse) started collecting even a handful of their most popular series into a Shonen Jump style weekly magazine and priced it at $2.50, you can bet I'd start buying comics.
In other words, they already tried it, at the height of the US anime boom. If someone could figure out if it's still going, that would give us the answer.
Edit: Also, I just noticed that this is your first post. Welcome to The Escapist. Follow the rules, proofread your posts, and don't advocate piracy, and you'll do just fine. But please, stay out of the basement.
Edit Edit: And a quick Wikipedia search says it's still around, but that it's a monthly magazine, not weekly. In all seriousness, I doubt such a niche market could support a weekly periodical, but the monthly version seems to be doing alright.
Final Edit: (Boy am I being a bad ambassador here) As for the rest of your question, I'd certainly pay $2.50 for a weekly comic book of that size; monthly comic books, which are about 20 pages long total, often run as high as $7.00 around here. It's the main reason I don't read comic books. If DC or Marvel (or heck, Dark Horse) started collecting even a handful of their most popular series into a Shonen Jump style weekly magazine and priced it at $2.50, you can bet I'd start buying comics.
This magazine would be an attempt to make comics into something everyone reads in America, but it may already be too late for that to happen sadly.
No thanks you end up with a lot of filler and not much progression to the story line in some cases. Also I prefer color.
Honestly, I don't think color adds much to the experience of reading a comic, but thats just my opinion.spectrenihlus said: