i'm also more familiar with manhwas, i have a feeling that south-koreans are more daring when it comes to making and studyning, trying out new things. i feel like mangas are just sticking to a few main themes because it works for them. manhwas are more diversed, if you ask me. say, killing stalking for example. it's daring as fuck and talks about a lot of sensitive topics. yet it united a shit ton of people, because it is that interesting and quite new. i seek for a story in yaoi manhwas more than i do in mangas. i'm not really sure if opinion on this topic is what you wanted, but i wrote it anyways.
i've made a typo, i meant studying*
I also thought about this as well. I think it's the same with other genres. But we have to see that there are till now so many more mangas published/translated than manhwas and webtoons, so If you ask me how many shitty and basic manga I know it's definitively a lot more than manhwas, but if you ask me the same for good manga it will also be a lot more. I think right now we are lucky getting all the good manhwas or that a lot of the stories seems fresh, but I think we will only feel like this now. Once we get used to some story patterns and be spoiled with just any kind of manhwas out there it will be at the same point mangas are right now.
(Anyone watching Kdramas will probably get what I mean)
One thing that I really like though which doesn't apply to just webtoons is how the colors and the panels can really build up a mood, which sometimes is missing for me in the normal comic panels.
ah I meant it applies to JUST webtoons
(This post is focused in the BL genre)
I feel like Mahnwa (or maybe just lezhin webcomics? I'm not that well-versed) portrays usually more modern relationships and hides more the usual yaoi tropes. I feel like they have more different styles.
Like, in manga, you also have better artists and not as good ones, but the canon they use is more or less similar (at least at one point concrete in time, if you compare old-school manga to any manga of today that's not true), but in mahnwa I feel like the artists are much more diverse. That being said I know much more mangas than mahnwa, so maybe that's why I feel they're more similar.
(Yes, I'm aware there are exceptions in manga too!)
Idk, just my musings at this time in the morning.
Penny for your thoughts?
PS: not trying to offend anyone, just honestly curious :)