can you imagine if manga series were as hard to follow as american superhero comics? like if they got rebooted and reinterpreted as often. some girl would be like ‘oh yeah i loved the run where naruto was a sweet teenage boy’ and some smug neckbeard would be like ‘no the series where he was a mysogynistic 30-something year old hitman with a coke addiction was the only true series’ and then everyone would be arguing over whether the crossover universe with bleach counted, and if so, which one.
conversely: imagine if american superhero comics were as exhaustively continuous as manga series. you’re on volume five and keep waiting for that moment you keep hearing about where the joker puts commissioner gordon on a literal trauma rollercoaster and then someone’s like “oh yeah that doesn’t happen until volume 53” and you’re like “how many volumes are there” and they’re like “130 so far, but the writer thinks he can get it wrapped up by volume 203 or 2044, whichever comes first”, and then on the internet someone recommends you the three-volume AU series where they’re all catchphrase-spouting high schoolers and you decide to just cheat by watching the anime but the anime overtook the manga plotline ages ago and batman’s just married a female green lantern who doesn’t even exist in the manga
20 / 20
