Those were the terms OP used lol. But yeah, generally people view comics as western rather than a catch all term.
Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons?
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 5 weeks agoI’m not into comics
I can read a lot of manga right now.
Pls to explain how manga is not comics
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Comics = American Manga = Japanese
Generally that’s the accepted connotations, even though the words are technically the same.