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The attractiveness of webtoons is that it can be read on the mobile phone screen without too much zooming in. Manga's format has to change because it is a pain
by jqquah 4y ago
The attractiveness of webtoons is that it can be read on the mobile phone screen without too much zooming in. Manga's format has to change because it is a pain to be read on the phone.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoThis is like saying "Novels have to change because they're a pain to read via Twitter". Or "Landscape painting has to change because it's boring to sit in a movie theatre and watch them on a slideshow". Let media play into their own strengths.
- zinclozenge 4y agoIf they don't, they might continue losing market share. Not to mention, there's nothing sacrosanct about the current format that can't be changed. In fact, there's a growing trend of Twitter based manga coming out.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoWhen artists start caring about 'market share' they stop being artists.
- anotherman554 4y agoAny artist who makes a living on their art cares about market share- at least to the extent that they have to go back to having a day job if the market share gets low enough.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoIncorrect. They have to go back to their day job if their sales get low enough. If selling 1,000 units a year in a market of 10,000 units a year is enough, they don't suddenly starve if the market expands around them but they don't and now they're selling 1,000 units a year in a market of 100,000.
- zinclozenge 4y agoWhat if the market share shrinks from 100k to 90k and they're only selling 900 units now? And what if drawing manga is their day job?
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoDoesn't this just prove my point? The market share is unchanged in that scenario.
- anotherman554 4y agoI see your point and you are both correct and incorrect. It's true that an indie artist who needs to sell, say, 5,000 comics a year doesn't have to care about market share as long as they can support themselves with the sales of 5,000 comics. But it's also true that if you are the lowest rated comic published by Disney, you'll probably be cancelled regardless of gross sales numbers. If all the other books start outselling you, Disney probably won't consider staying in business with you worth their time. And if you are fired by Disney, you may find yourself in need of a day job.
- ComplexSystems 4y agoWhen artists stop caring about market share, they stop being artists.
- Klaster_1 4y agoFor the last 10 years, I've been reading manga off a tablet. Recently, my tablet died and for next couple of months I had no way to purchase a replacement, so I decided to give it a go on a phone. Honestly, I did not expect things to turn out so well: landscape orientation, fit to width and pinch zoom do the job most of the time. The only issue I have is with split spread pages, but that's more of the reader and source integration issue - I suspect Mangaplus doesn't annotate pages as spreads like Crunchyroll, so Tachiyomi has no way of knowing what's a spread.