Comments on: “Nobody reads manga anymore.” Veteran manga editor says there are fewer aspiring editors who are truly passionate about the medium

By: based

based — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:38:57 +0000

that’s cuz they won’t hire me (I haven’t applied)

By: IStillReadManga

IStillReadManga — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:40:21 +0000

I don’t know about Japan but more Americans are read manga then ever before

By: Bernd

Bernd — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:49:22 +0000

Wdym? We read one piece every week bro.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 04:31:12 +0000

Bookstores are everywhere – they are beautiful and MANGA …thousands of copies of it ….are in EVERY SINGLE STORE. It’s not just for rabbit hole divers – manga is just mainstream entertainment. It’s delightful junk food. Most of the content is on par with the mighty ducks films so please relax about the art crisis. Manga is never going away and it’s doing just fine without our concern.

If y’all Maga land manga critics want to discuss something about Japan that needs a thoughtful remedy perhaps walk around the sprawling hostess club zones and ask yourself …how many of these countless young women are essentially prostitutes for old failed business men… Why don’t women seem to get career opportunities in sleek Japan? That’s the tragic flaw in the culture not manga.

By: ryley

ryley — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:41:57 +0000

as someone who used to read it i can see why,
-normies come in
-make it all sport or superhero slop nobody wants
-leave
-make it shit

the cycle continues yet again for another hobby that used to be great and weird and full of fantasy now it’s just a shell of its former self putting towards a “bigger audience” like the US now manga looks like it was made by americans (i am canadian i can say that)
lmao

By: Kei

Kei — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:57:17 +0000

Webtoons, manhwas, manhuas, or whatever you want to call them have spoiled me. It’s for me hard to go back to traditional mangas unless I’m really invested/interested in the IP. On top of that, I don’t read as much as I used to, so I don’t really feel the need to go out of my way to dig through materials drawn in the traditional way.

I imagine a lot of people are in the same camp as I am, and that’s only counting older readers. Newer readers probably skipped the older formats altogether.

By: Dis

Dis — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:15:56 +0000

Almost as it people don’t want to dedicate their entire life to a thankless job anymore. Shocker.

By: J

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:30:32 +0000

Brother… Buy a tablet. If the screen isnt big enough get a bigger screen, theyre not expensive at all anymore. “I stopped reading Manga becsuse my phone screen is too small” means you mist nit like them enough to make reading them comfortable anyway

By: joe

joe — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:23:38 +0000

When the industry pushes mangakas to copy what is popular, and the pay is horrible, and south korea thrives with four times the speed of releases to great popularity…

Yeah you’ll get less quality and quantity of people wanting certain jobs.

Yet to blame them for it, instead of looking inwards, is such a Japanese corporate way of doing things and won’t fix anything.

By: Choco

Choco — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:47:35 +0000

I can kind of understand the frustration. People lacking a true passion for the profession they’re trying to get into is very annoying. Superficial motivations won’t keep you there when the going gets tough and the manga industry sound slime it can be heavy, unforgiving work as far as creative, not discounting other creative endeavors. It makes me wonder what made them decide to even try in the first place.

I, meanwhile, find myself reading more manga than watching anime nowadays. My digital libraries are growing but I wish I could have a physical one.

By: Thrus

Thrus — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:43:35 +0000

I used to read primarily on my computer. This worked great for manga. Now, however, I read primarily on my phone not sitting at my desk with the full screen of the PC. Sadly, I have yet to find a mango reader that works well on the phone. Due to the smaller screen you wind up having to zoom in to see each panel and be able to read them and then you’re scrolling left and right and up up and around makes it feel a lot less connected because you’re reading from the top left scrolling to the top right and then down and around and not all panels are the same size. That’s fine. In a book or on a large screen on a phone it is exceptionally annoying because I don’t have things the same size and I’m changing zooms and the text is changing size always. That is the reason that I read less of it anymore.