{"id":8533,"date":"2005-04-04T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/04\/japans-manga-industry-in-trouble\/"},"modified":"2005-04-04T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T15:11:00","slug":"japans-manga-industry-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/japans-manga-industry-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Manga Industry in Trouble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfccinema.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kung Fu Cult Cinema<\/a> has published a report on the current Japanese trend of declining manga sales in Japan and increased retailer returns. The problem is blamed on the current manga industry&#8217;s emphasis on targeting older readers but lack of variety in manga titles for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kung Fu Cult Cinema has published a report on the current Japanese trend of declining manga sales in Japan and increased retailer returns. The problem is blamed on the current manga industry&#8217;s emphasis on targeting older readers but lack of variety in manga titles for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}