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Ok, first all of those are completely different in their subject matter. Second, they're all stand alone. I don't need to go out and buy thirty variations of books on any of them. Even One Piece, which has been running forever, I can buy volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4...volume 500. I don't need to wonder where a storyline ends and begins, because they're all in the same book. Manga has clear arcs, which punctuate the beginning and end of a particular storyline. There is no outside reading required. I don't need Detective Comics #29, Batman #14-20 and Robin #24 to understand a fucking arc. Not to mention there are no remakes, reimaginings and reboots.
There is one universal continuity in each of those books. Demon Slayer is also complete. It will never be remade, rewritten, reimagined. It is a singular complete work, and will stay that way, probably forever. And again, all I need to do, even years later, is pick up its volumes in numerical order. It has one name, Demon Slayer. There's no fucked up numbering, there's not Detective Comics 1995 and Detective Comics 2010 and Detective Comics 2021 all of which are fucking different and you need a wiki to decipher what to read. So going back and reading old storylines are confusing. You know why kids don't get into comics? Because they don't fucking know where to start. A kid can pick up fucking Dragonball Volume 1 and be caught up.
The only thing Viz has in common with Marvel and DC is that its a media company. It does not constantly remake its content. It will do reprints, sure. But there's not fucking team ups of Akira and GitS. Manga is vast and encompasses so much, and it is mostly written for Japanese audiences. Sure, the ones you listed are popular in Japan, but there are massive amounts that sell crazy in Japan and don't make their way over here for one reason or another, which is why fan translations are a thing.
You're also misinterpreting genre. Shonen is not a genre, it literally means young boy. It is mostly a classification to aim at audience. Shonen encompasses a lot of genres and isn't necessarily action oriented. Just like Seinen means 'Young Man'. Its a demographic term, not a content term. Generally, Seinen is darker because its aimed at an older audience, but this is not always the case. And you mentioned capeshit, not extraordinarily small market shares like Image or Dynamite. And even then, the ideas in manga still outshine the American industry by a lot, which is very petrified to do anything remotely controversial. I mean fuck, even heavy metal pissed itself when fans mocked its new reboot. There's nothing there. Even Image and Dynamite are rehashing old brands and old properties.
I did start reading Invincible and I was really shocked at how fast the plot moved. Maybe because I'm used to manga nowadays, where things are more long form, but shit. The pacing of things is just better in manga. The stories too. I found it kind of funny how the Amazon show basically took more from anime and manga than from the comic itself, letting plots draw out and making things more detailed. Like when Omni-Man murks the Seven in the comic, it is very brief. He's also fine in the comic and you learn why just a paltry few issues later, meanwhile its built up as a larger mystery in the show. And again, most comics are like this, with the exception of very few, like Ennis, Millar and Gaiman, even if he turned into a pretentious faggot lately. And those are individual authors, not major companies. Even then, the art on their books rarely remains the same unless they stick with one artist, which creates an erratic tone. Meanwhile, manga art is streamlined and can create a singular tone for a work. Even with Ennis' 'The Boys', he had different artists, some of which were utter fucking trash which ruined the story.
I've read a ton of American comics and a ton of manga. I haven't read an American comic in years and years, because none of them are worth it. Its all the same, its nothing new. I know the differences between both and they're stark. There's a very good reason why manga is curb stomping American comics.
Even then, Isekai are vastly different from one another. You have Tanya the Evil, which transports a sociopath into the body of a little girl by God to teach him a lesson and pits him in a war torn hell. Then you have shit like 'I'm a Spider, So What?' where a girl is reincarnated as a spider. To 'Shield Hero' where the MC is shit on the entire time. It is still extremely different, and one isekai can be hugely different from another.
Are there derivative isekai? Sure. There are plenty. But there are also plenty that are different and I don't have to see the same 'coming of age' story ten trillion fucking times that goes exactly the same every goddamn fucking time.
