I am surprised I am still excited for Daggerheart

[Ruin Explorer]

Typically, those two approaches to aesthetic and storytelling tend toward very different assumptions about power, how the world works, which tropes are "normal," etc.

I think you're confusing "shonen manga" (i.e. manga aimed at boys and young men) specifically with "manga" as a whole.

This is an equivalent error to confusing "thrillers aimed at aging men" (like Jack Reacher) with "novels" as a whole.

Manga isn't a genre. It's a medium. It literally means "comic or graphic novel". It's incredibly diverse. It's very far from just stories of teenage boys gaining super-powers or whatever.

 

[Faolyn]

I think you're confusing "shonen manga" (i.e. manga aimed at boys and young men) specifically with "manga" as a whole.

This is an equivalent error to confusing "thrillers aimed at aging men" (like Jack Reacher) with "novels" as a whole.

Manga isn't a genre. It's a medium. It literally means "comic or graphic novel". It's incredibly diverse. It's very far from just stories of teenage boys gaining super-powers or whatever.

Sometimes it's teenage girls getting superpowers!

I'm joking. You're 100% right. The manga most commonly (officially) translated into English is of the super-powered variety, but there's a tremendous variety out there.

 

[Argyle King]

I think you're confusing "shonen manga" (i.e. manga aimed at boys and young men) specifically with "manga" as a whole.

This is an equivalent error to confusing "thrillers aimed at aging men" (like Jack Reacher) with "novels" as a whole.

Manga isn't a genre. It's a medium. It literally means "comic or graphic novel". It's incredibly diverse. It's very far from just stories of teenage boys gaining super-powers or whatever.

I've heard that before. My own subjective perception is that it still tends toward certain things across the medium.

However, as you appear to be more familiar with said medium, do you feel that it would be a medium well suited to Daggerheart?

If a book were written based upon the mechanics and aesthetic of Daggerheart (similar to how Dragonlance was based upon AD&D,) what do you feel the book would be like?