When I was at school, I watch hundreds of titles every year, but after some time, when my taste became more mature, I've started to be much pickier about anime

When I was at school, I watch hundreds of titles every year, but after some time, when my taste became more mature, I've started to be much pickier about anime and usually just read manga. Even with my primary career as a software engineer (and product manager for now), I love to draw, and it's always fun to see some extremely detailed manga art. It inspires me to draw something too, but I know that manga authors' work conditions are worse than in the shittiest startup you can imagine. Sometimes I'm read some Korean and Chinese webtoons, but usually just the ones with incredible art and good action. It's hard to find anything with a good plot in these. Anyway, I love the new wave of manga authors with "postmodern" feelings in their works and attempts to deconstruct genre cliches without a plan to make another Bleach or Naruto with 9000 chapters. About my enjoyment, I think it's mainly because the manga is "different" from most Western media. When 2/3 anime are just "slice-of-life comedies with patsu shots," manga are diverse in plots, genres, and characters. And in my opinion, authors go much further in attempts to create strong and interesting female characters and make diverse leads in their works.