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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3970985" data-attributes="member: 3649">Bookstores have huge sections devoted to manga while they have much smaller sections devoted to regular comics and graphic novels; right now, manga is vastly more popular with the under-25 age group than anything DC or Marvel makes. Manga sales in the USA are as high as $200 million per year after being on the big chain radar for only about four or five years; non-manga graphic novels for all companies combined hit $330 million last year. That's not 'a small niche' but a rapidly growing market.It's not a huge hit with the traditional fans of the DC/Marvel/Image crowd, but it is a hit with the vast numbers of customers the traditional comics companies have never been able to attract and still can't. If I thought that by adding more anime tropes and styles that D&D could achieve that kind of new customer acquisition, I'd say 'go for it'.</blockquote>