Don't forget Ultimate Spider-Man on the Xbox and PS2. Does Cuphead count since it's stylized as a cartoon? Also, Mad World on the Wii.
Never said they dont, but claiming that western aesthetic reminds to Fortnite is some bullshit right there.
This guy gets it. Superhero media is flying high but it has never actually lifted the sales of the books those heroes are from.
I'd kill for games that drew from comic styles like Copra, Old City Blues, Darwyn Cooke's Parker instead of always going for the chunky action-figure hero look
It's really weird, but as humongous as comic book adaptations are, the actual comic books themselves seem like they are more niche than anime and manga, even in USBecause:
And that's just physical copies in the US as tracked by NPD. It doesn't take in account digital sales/subscriptions (which are an abysmal 9% for comics), international sales or the massive amounts of pirating/scanlations.
Or to put it in another way, the current best selling superhero comic is My Hero Academia.
This. Anime is literally everywhere in Japan. It's used in ads and you see it on trains and on products and on everything.Maybe I'm talking out of my ass, but I'm sure anime is waaaaaaay more popular than comic books. The Marvel movies may be extremely successful but those fans don't turn into comic book fans. They don't care about the source material. They're two separate things.
Pure conjecture but maybe because comic books are viewed as being nerdy or childish and production leads want to reach as broad an audience as possible. Additionally it's harder to show high resolution graphics improvements in a cartoony artstyle compared to more realistic ones.
Also from a technical side, a lot of the middleware engines such as UE don't handle cartoon aspects as well as realistic components. They're better than they used to be though.
BasedOr to put it in another way, the current best selling superhero comic is My Hero Academia.
It's mildly misleading (though obviously still extremely impressive.) Each new volume of One Piece sold better than any new volume of KnY, but since the KnY anime was such a hit they had a huge flood of legacy sales on all the past volumes.I knew Kimetsu no Yaiba was killing it but this number is ridiculous... Lmao
I'd love one that follows Juan Giménez's style tooI'd kill for games that drew from comic styles like Copra, Old City Blues, Darwyn Cooke's Parker instead of always going for the chunky action-figure hero look
How did this thread go so long without a single image of Darkest Dungeon?
Borderlands is one of the big western games using western comics art. You can find ton of indies with that approach as well (Darkest Dungeon is a successfull example, Shadow Tactics, Battle Chasers, Deep Sky Derelicts, Hotline Miami, Valiant the Great War...)
The entire US comic market collapsed ages ago. Graphic Novels and Manga both do terribly in the US, but at least Manga is bolstered by Japan & the rest of the world unlike American comics. The heavy dominance of manga in Japan also guarantees a continued level of talent that the American comic scene lacks (most American comics are done by veterans as the talent has been more online focused if there at all). At this point, the American comic scene is held together by two factors: 1) the resilient group of roughly 2000 comic book stores (though COVID has devastated them), and 2) that Hollywood basically subsides the industry as a glorified writing room for their movies & shows (hence why superhero comics still dominate)It's really weird, but as humongous as comic book adaptations are, the actual comic books themselves seem like they are more niche than anime and manga, even in US
glad to see this get mentioned so quickly. the look still holds up really well too.Ultimate Spider-Man
And I always forget the name but there's this motorcycle game that used to be in arcades. You'd pull the handlebars out to jump and in to slide and you have to run from the cops. It had a comic feel too but idk if it was a Western dev.
Edit: Nah it was a Sega game called Wild Riders. Nevermind
Comparing anime to comics seems kinda weird given that they're in different mediums. Surely a more apt comparison to comics would be manga, and I cant think of many games that use manga aesthetics.
The closer comparison for anime would be western animation but there are plenty of games that use that kind of style, from Fortnite to Ratchet and Clank to Overwatch
Lol. Came here to mention this. Codename STEAM was so unpopular it only gets one mention here....though not a western dev. Not sure why the dev needs to be western to embrace the aesthetic, but that's the thread title.Another thread for me to whinge over people rejecting Codename STEAM because the Mignola/Timm comic aesthetic turned people off. There's plenty of other reasons why the game sucked but that wasn't one of them you uncultured sunsuv-
Ahem
Also Telltale's graphics don't get attention for being comic book-like, they get attention for being cel-shaded, which probably doesn't help.
Sorta a false analogy though since anime is almost entirely based on the manga aesthetic while US cartoons mainly refer back to 1950s/60s cartoons or Disney (if not anime itself). From that viewpoint, Manga/Anime vs American comics is still an apt comparison based on the argument set by the OPComparing anime to comics seems kinda weird given that they're in different mediums. Surely a more apt comparison to comics would be manga, and I cant think of many games that use manga aesthetics.
The closer comparison for anime would be western animation but there are plenty of games that use that kind of style, from Fortnite to Ratchet and Clank to Overwatch
It's mildly misleading (though obviously still extremely impressive.) Each new volume of One Piece sold better than any new volume of KnY, but since the KnY anime was such a hit they had a huge flood of legacy sales on all the past volumes.
So per volume OP is still ahead, but obviously for that one period following the anime airing KnY sold an absolutely crazy number of books.
I'd kill for games that drew from comic styles like Copra, Old City Blues, Darwyn Cooke's Parker instead of always going for the chunky action-figure hero look
It's really weird, but as humongous as comic book adaptations are, the actual comic books themselves seem like they are more niche than anime and manga, even in US
And it is a damn shame. Comics are such a wonderful medium, but the market collapsed decades ago and cape shit still dominates. Still, there is so much truly wonderful work out there if you know where to look
I think I should have specified that I was talking about the superhero comicsAnd it is a damn shame. Comics are such a wonderful medium, but the market collapsed decades ago and cape shit still dominates. Still, there is so much truly wonderful work out there if you know where to look
I had steered clear of comics for a while since I thought it was mostly superheroes
They want to be as accurate as possible:
These movies aren't kids movies.
The problem isn't incentive, really it's schedule. The show has the single best manga series in the world to work from, if a good studio had the ability to restart at the beginning and work their way through the material at their own pace a few cours at a time it would incredible. That's what happened to Jojo, that's what happened with HxH 2011, that's what happened the FMA:B, that's what happened to AoT, etc, etc.Yeah, the anime was pretty great so I'm not surprised. If only One Piece was on its level... I guess there's no incentive to make a better anime as the sales have been amazing for a long time now.
Part of why World of Horror is so cool. Clearly drawing from Ito's style, rather than the stereotypical "anime" styleI feel like western comic aesthetics aren't as easy to translate to 3D as anime. Or at least, it just kinda all looks very much the same (see the first post where all the examples given are just... cel shading). But 3D anime styles seem to vary a lot more.
Digital. I only buy volumes from ComixologyDo people even read comic books anymore? Like of all the nerd shit I only know one person that actually buys them and even then they only get like 1 a year.
Based
It's mildly misleading (though obviously still extremely impressive.) Each new volume of One Piece sold better than any new volume of KnY, but since the KnY anime was such a hit they had a huge flood of legacy sales on all the past volumes.
So per volume OP is still ahead, but obviously for that one period following the anime airing KnY sold an absolutely crazy number of books.
THANK YOU! Thought I was going crazy lol.How did this thread go so long without a single image of Darkest Dungeon?
Right from the get go this thread is incredibly dumb. Describing entire mediums, in this case comics and Japanese animation, as if they have unified aesthetics is as stupid as it is popular. The icing on the cake is the ignorance of the breadth of both mediums exhibited in the OP and throughout the thread.
I don't think you can categorize "western" comics as that unique superhero look. It is very us-centric, here in brazil if you want a "comic" look you'd have to take our most popular comics, which basically would mean this:
Also,i can't prove anything, specially because i'm not the target demographic for american comics, but i'm fairly sure manga has been bigger than superhero american comics for a good while now in brasil. That's all i grew up reading, fullmetal,cardcaptor sakura,etc.
Yeah all of Joe Mad's game came to my mind right away.
Oh I had no idea, I guess I was thinking of the 2019 data. That's really impressive.As of now Kimetsu no Yaiba is beating OP per volume actually. Most of KnY vols should of crossed the 3 million mark with no signs of stopping. The only thing OP has over it is total sales which makes sense because it has 96 vols while KnY has 24. KnY has basically beaten One Piece in yearly and individual sales which is an huge achievement.