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The author has reason to draw the series until long after it should It’s clear that a similar incentive is often at work with manga. Like Garfield palpably outwear their welcome somewhereĪround volume 35 (or was it #46? Or #53?) how much more so for plot-driven ones! Papers, & not once think that it would be a more satisfactory novel if it were just a tad less discursive. I defy any modern reader to read through the imposing bulk of Charles Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers and its 57 chapters and hundreds of One gets what one pays for and so if the artist or author is being paid for volume, they are notįor quality. This provides some useful parallels, and immediately draws our attention to one problem of the Perhaps the best analogy would be to that bygone age when novels were serialized in Western monthly and weekly periodicals, much like

On the other hand, comparison to making movies is not apt either as even indie movies filmed on a shoestring costĭozens of thousands of dollars, while drawing manga is so cheap that thousands of amateurs routinely sell their work for the cost of Good-sized novel in roughly a day at 60 WPM)-but even an inspired mangaka cannot quickly write & draw & In an important way: an inspired novelist can produce a tremendous amount in a short time (a novelist could theoretically write a There aren’t many good analogies here for her predicament one could try to compare to a novelist, except the medium is different What incentive does she have to invest in intricate arcs with subtle connections and callbacks? Or even think The majority of her possible employers), there is not the slightest guarantee her manga will continue to be published next year or month or Periodicals like Weekly Shonen Jump (who are Her creation’s continuance isįraught with uncertainty adrift on the vicissitudes of the highly competitive & unstable commercial world of weekly and monthly Japanese Medium, but the business of anime and manga seems to positively militate against them.Ĭonsider the lowly mangaka. I should note that it’s unusual for anime and manga to even have good endings, much less great ones. (example: could one use information theory to devise

Genre is almost unclassifiable (detective/mystery, drama, suspense, action, Greek tragedy, supernatural, or what?) the plot warrantsĬonsiderable analysis, and furnishes considerable scope for thought-just coming up with ingenious ways of exploiting a Death Note consistent with the rules is good intellectual fun, or one can devise interesting theories to analyze Grim Reaper the cosmology is remarkably atheistic 1 its The shinigami are unexpectedly Japanese versions of the Most cases until victim turns 55 (Civil) or turns 28 (Criminal)ĬPLR 215(3) 14 N.Y.Prac.The anime/manga Death Note is interesting on many

No time limit, 2 or 5 years depending on the factsġ year from act (Civil) 2 or 5 years depending on the facts (Criminal)ĬPLR 215(3) Crim. Statutes of limitations are laws which say how long, after certain events, a case may be started based on those events.
