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Most popular manga run in weekly anthologies, published chapter by chapter over years. The format is not just a delivery method. It changes what manga becomes.
Anime adaptations of manga routinely disappoint people who read the source material. The reasons are structural, not just about budget or effort.
Josei is the demographic label for manga aimed at adult women. It produces some of the most interesting work in the medium. Most Western readers have never heard of it.
Fullmetal Alchemist has two anime adaptations. Nobody tells you this at the start, and that is a problem.
The practice of ranking manga characters by strength and arguing about hypothetical fights is disconnected from how storytelling actually works. It is also extremely watchable at 2 AM.
I stopped reading manga in my mid-twenties because I convinced myself I had aged out of it. That was wrong in a way that took me a while to fully see.