I really like this X Force team and I think it could even be adapted into the MCU or just Marvel Comics, you just need to give them something to do. I wonder though if Marvel Comics shouldn’t just let their current cast die off and find new folks. In universe, the heroes just keep going round and round with the villains with either faction being practically immortal. It shouldn’t be sustainable and it may not turn out to be with two new competitors; film and manga. Not like Marvel/DC will stop with comics completely but I feel like they need to change something up since most people will get their heroic folklore from the theater or Japanese comics.
Manga actually just has a better format in general. A centralized story from one author with the characters and story kind of personally owned to him. It sucks they work weekly for some companies and how competitive Shonen Jump specifically is but that’s capitalism. Then if it gets good enough, it gets animated near 1 to 1 with some filler episodes.
American comics, at least the day Marvel had been doing, is almost the opposite than this. If Spider-Man was in Shonen Jump, it would’ve just ended after both Steve Dikto and Stan Lee (like issue 110 I guess) left because it wouldn’t have been passed on to anyone else. But Americans keep the comic in house and the character alive with continuous generations of writers and artists. And they did animate some characters although I don’t know how accurate the adaptions are. New anime or even live action shows they have seem to do loose adaptions which is gifted by the fact that even the comic company has different storylines/universes to cover up retcons. Then you add in video game universes and movie universes and you have a self sustaining multiverse. Shonen Jump doesn’t even produce their anime, they have studios like Funimation and Toei accomplish that since they could afford a failure. For a Shonen fan, they only need to wait for something to appear in the original manga to be considered canon. Every Dragon Ball film could technically take place in different timelines (if it was Marvel) but they are simply not canon. No need for retconning. Also, the characters are always clashing with each other. Spider-Man in Fantastic Four in Black Panther in Iron Man in the Avengers. At some point, they stopped writing a kids book and were writing a new omniverse. Shonen Jump almost never has crossovers (excluding Jump Force) and each story is kept to its own although mangaka can always reference each other. This is actually the reason why there’s this meme.
I don’t know, a random rant from someone who first grew up with manga. It doesn’t pertain here. I do wonder which system will last longer in the long run. I think I will do another X-Force thing sooner than later, I just have to think of good antagonist. For Marvel stuff, next I’ll do a Defender’s Season 2. But an alternative history’s going to come out soon along with some one shots. Oh and I’ll debut a new low scale series.
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