Forum - View topicMecha Manga
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Kouji
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Why is there such a lack of mecha titles in manga in comparison to anime? I know of lots of mecha anime series but I only know of a few manga titles that are mecha and the few ones I do know of are manga adaptations of anime, like the Eva manga or the Escalowne manga. I just always wondered why there are so few mecha manga out there. Is it because mecha is a difficult genre to create in a manga format or is it just because of a lack of demand for it?
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KyuuA4
 Posts: 1361 Location: America, where anime and manga can be made |
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I'm willing to point at the domination of the mecha genre back in the 1980's. Why bother have mecha manga - when they succeeded straight into anime?
To fit mecha on a paper - man, gotta big sheets of paper for those. 
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marie-antoinette
 Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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Also the fact that action tends to work better in anime than in manga could play a role, though there certainly are a large number of action-oriented manga despite this.
There are some mecha manga out there though which are not adaptations. I believe some of the Gundam manga are original stories (though I don't know this for sure). Also there is Candidate for Goddess. |
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digitalkikka
 Posts: 462 Location: Chicago, Illinois |
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Mecha is just a genre that works better animated. Without color it can be difficult to tell the robots apart and unless the artist is really skilled at depicting combat, the actions scenes are usually a mess. Giant robots are, well, giant and panels become incredibly cluttered when so much action is crammed onto a page.
There are still plenty of good mecha titles out there but most are aimed at fans of an existing franchise, or are just adaptations. |
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jgreen
 Posts: 1325 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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I'd add that mecha manga has never done particularly well in America, either. The only really successful mecha comic I can think of are the American Transformers comics. So a lot of the stuff that is out there never gets licensed.
But mecha is that rare genre that works better in animated form, as digitalkikka said. |
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oslapedo
 Posts: 31 Location: Roseburg, OR |
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Don't forget Eureka 7. It had a manga too! 
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ANNForumRider
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So is the Mecha Anime still hot in demand around the world, other than the USA?
I do recollect that mecha anime did succeed well in the 80's such as Macross series. That one is certainly a classic to remember, hence its lasting impressions. In Asian countries(not including Japan), you would find mecha merchandise everywhere on every store ranging from mecha collectibles to mecha video games, and everybody of all ages will flock to them and purchase. As if it was the greatest anime merchandise bonanza you could possibly imagined. In those days. I wonder whether that buying behaviour still exists but on a larger international scale. Any ideas whether the manga industry will take some interests in making more mecha despite its limitations? |
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slickwataris
 Posts: 1334 Location: Carol Stream, Illinois |
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That's basically why I stopped reading the Gundam Seed Destiny manga and returned it straight to the library. Of course I did watch an episode of the anime several months later and couldn't tell the difference between the Gundams or the actual people either so maybe it wasn't entirely the manga-ka's fault after all. |
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LuckySleven
 Posts: 426 Location: Refer to page 2 |
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Ya mecha gernes work out better with anime than with manga. I find it much more exciting to watch it with live pace action than watching it screen play by screen play. Also I that it's better to explain why there is a war with someone narracting the reason than reading a bunch of pages that makes you want to sleep. Since mecha is all about action it also needs bgm which I don't think you can put in a manga book <_< Maybe if the manga was fully in color than it would be more interesting but would cost lots more. So in the end mecha gernes are better played out in anime than in manga.
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