sleepingkirby
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I do want to point out that while it doesn't necessarily hijack the plot, mangas will often interweave it into the plot. Like Inuyasha or Maoyuu or Horimiya or Karekano. And I think this is because mangas, and really, fiction books in general here, aren't categorized into genres like "romance" or "mystery" or "thriller". Like, Japanese publishers don't go "We do romance novels". At most, you get like shounen or shoujo or seinen, which implies some things, but aren't a hard and fast rule. Like I think Inuyasha, despite being romance drama heavy, is put in the shounen section. Ah! Megamisama, I think was seinen? And you'd think a lot of Clamp's stuff (Magic Knights Rayearth, Chobits, XXXHolic, etc.) would be more shoujo, but most (if not all) of it, I think, ended up in the shounen category.This doesnt happen in Manga because usually they stick to what they are doing, there is some romance in Demon Slayer but at no point it highjacked the plot, same with other action series were that is secondary as support and leave the shipping crap to doujins, there is still series entirely on romance that just shows how bad western comics became as its hyperfocused on superheros only but then again, this is why manga diversity allows it to continue to thrive as western comics are further and further in the decline due to their unwillingness to diversity (even if we can thank the Comic Book Code for that originally) and too hyperfocused on decades old characters with little actual inovation.