Effectively communicating the thought processes of characters seems to be much more prevalent among Japanese writers of popular media. I suspect this is at leas

Effectively communicating the thought processes of characters seems to be much more prevalent among Japanese writers of popular media. I suspect this is at least in part because American writers in industries like Hollywood look down on their audiences or are encouraged to simplify and remove nuances by marketers, where Japanese writers tend to trust their audiences to handle much more. Where Japanese writers suffer is, not unlike the American TV show writer, in the business incentive to drag a series out for as long as possible to milk the most money out of it. Anyone would run out of material under those circumstances. The best serializations are those smaller ones that either planned the arc of the story from the beginning, or never pretended to have one in the first place.