Characteristics of American-style Anime

In addition to the particular visual style of American manga, which uses bright colors, clear subplots, and strong muscular and action lines, there are three other characteristics that distinguish American manga from Japanese manga.

First, most of the individual manga are published one per month, and do not appear as weekly magazines like Japanese manga, which are later assembled in a single volume. On the contrary, the so-called compilation is only possible if the original sales volume is good enough, and therefore the market for collecting, preserving and investing in American comics is quite large.

The second is that there is a lot of crossover, which means that protagonists from different comics and different companies often appear in the same story. Since 1940, when Marvel first brought two of their heroes together, readers have often seen Superman and Batman teaming up, and Spiderman and X-Men teaming up, and DC and Marvel have often produced two sides of the same story, for example. For example, DC and Marvel have often produced joint stories in which the two heroes are both friends and foes, and there's even a story in which Batman fights Alien and Batman appears in Hellboy. If readers who are used to reading Japanese comics can not understand.

Third, there are a lot of spin offs, so-called spin offs are the characters in a team of heroes that have their own stories independently, but the content of the stories is closely related to the overall plot; Robin, Batman's assistant, has her own independent work, and even Superman's girlfriend, Lois, has had her own serialization.