Manga sales in Japan seem to be falling every year, even though it still makes over four billion dollars yearly there. Blame falls to interest in other media forms and lack of creative works. Manga about a mom and an autistic son not enough? Guess it’s time to make more manga based on other books and media.

 Chocolate Underground (being published in manga mag Bessatsu Margaret) is a good example, it’s based on a British kiddy book titled Bootleg. Two young boys running a chocolate factory in a country that has outlawed chocolate and other sweets. They’ll likely run out of the ingredients and deal with people who discovered their secret. Surely it’ll be less British in look and story. If the US and global markets hold though, you’d think manga will still be a force in Japan. Couple hundred million a year in the US and growing sections in your local bookstore, it’s likely stories about romance and pervert manga being placed in kid sections will become the past.