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Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Justice & Star Trekker

Due to the differences between American and Japanese copyright law, Japanese corporations don't have to aggressively attack copyright violators or risk losing their copyright.

With such meager "official" offerings, I'd go so far as to say that the best Japanese takes on American properties are in dojinshi.

Some of the best art is based on the young superhero teams of the '80s, Teen Titans, Alpha Flight and Fallen Angels, perhaps because they had more cute girls and opportunities for romantic hijinks.

But in an essay from two years later, after seeing Batman Returns, Ishikawa is apparently been won over by Burton. "Returns could arguably be his greatest masterpiece," he gushes. "The theme of resentment towards a society whose members try to exclude and discriminate against those different from themselves, which could be called the source of Burton's creative will, is excellently depicted through the tragic life of the Penguin."

Ishikawa goes on: "Rather than see him do a third Batman movie, I'd prefer the director realize a Godzilla film that he himself proposes to TOHO (unreasonable as that may seem).

What I like about American comics is that they accept and appreciate more realistic art and that they're more professional. If this is considered top work, though, then the overall quality level of the American comics world may be dropping."

all dôjinshi are equally illegal, and equally likely to be stamped down on by litigious Western companies trying to protect their copyrights

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Due to the differences between American and Japanese copyright law, Japanese corporations don't have to aggressively attack copyright violators or risk losing their copyright.

I'm pretty sure American corporations don't have to either.

Missed a closing italic on the author bio at the end. Again.

Even a work like Tomoyuki Saito's Dame Dame Saito Nikki—a short-lived autobiographical manga about the artist's experiences living in America which ran in Dengeki Daioh magazine—could get in trouble with DC and Marvel for merely including drawings of people cosplaying as American superheroes at San Diego Comic-Con

Really, all that manga and the best examples of Japanese manga on Western Pop Culture you could list were a few random Batman comics? What about Yoshitaka Amano's venture into Elektra & Wolverine (or his other projects with Neil Gaiman), or the tons of Star Wars manga released by Dark Horse with manga-ka like Shin-ichi Hiromoto they sold along with their regular Star Wars comics? Or even the Darren Shan/Cique du Freak series which was so huge in Japan it warranted a manga for Japanese audiences?

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all dôjinshi are equally illegal, and equally likely to be stamped down on by litigious Western companies trying to protect their copyrights

"all these doujinshi" , that sentance refers to Harry potter doujinshi, not doujinshi in general.

You make it sound like all doujinshi are derivative and unauthorised, which is misleading.