Originally Posted by
Zauriel
I stopped buying comics a long time ago for several reasons as others mentioned. High prices. Rebooting canon that is already too convoluted. Outgrowing the charactewrs you loved to read about.
Manga has lots of various and diverse genres. Manga is divided into four categories targeted at different groups of readers such as shonen (boys), shoujo (girls), seinen (men) and josei (women).
Genres such as martial arts, detectives, sports, cooking, horror, fantasy, sci-fi, high school life, romance, comedy, humor, action and etc.
They have got many sports manga including Blue Lock which was already mentioned in the thread. In fact, they made some manga about Soccer, baseball, karate, bowling, hunting, badminton (Badminton Girl), ice skaing (Medalist), naginata (Asahinagu), kendo (Bamboo Blade), basketball (slam Dunk), tennis (Prince of Tennis), judo (Yawara!), and fishing (Grander Musashi). I was a bit suprised to discover there are so many baseball and soccer manga out there. My favorite soccer manga was Farewell, My Dear Cramer (Sayonara Watashi no Kuramā)
Furthermore, One of my favorite manga was a fishing manga called Grander Musashi.
There are so many fantasy (including isekai) manga out there, some of which were good enough to put Lord of the Rings to shame.
They also have manga about music, piano, violin, other musical instruments, singing and dancing, albeit various types of dancing like ballet dancing (Kenrantaru Grande Scene) and ballroom dancing (Ballroom e Youkouso). And a manga about playing piano/conducting music is called Nodame Cantabile, another one of my favorite manga.
Manga's food genre is unique, creative and amazing. They have manga about cocktails (Bartender), curry (Addicted to Curry), bread baking (Yakitate!! Japan), Chinese food (Chūka Ichiban! & Iron Wok Jan) and Bambino (Italian cuisine). Some of those manga have lasted more than 12 volumes.
They can even publish a manga about knitting and it would sell.
Comics also has genres such as Westerns, horror, teen humor, fantasy, war stories, but they didn't sell well as the dominant genre called superheroes.