Looking at the popularity of Harry Potter why aren't there any manga or anime in which wands are the main weapon...

Looking at the popularity of Harry Potter why aren't there any manga or anime in which wands are the main weapon? I know there are several magic and fantasy based animes but they tend to go more with LOTR style.

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Because it's fucking stupid.

Do you actually think the wands were what made Harry Potter popular? Not the blatant escapist horseshit of a loser child being sent away to magical nonsense fairytale land and told he's the fucking chosen one and having all the girls dying to choke on his dick?
Anime has already copied everything that was marketable from Harry Potter. Nobody gives a shit about wands you virgin.

Because even Japs know better than to copy one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy lizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

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I should save this copypasta.

>Dumbledore's wand is anal beads
Bravo Rowling

There is

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naruto is somewhat a copy of hairy potter

yes

>Looking at the popularity of Harry Potter why aren't there any manga or anime in which wands are the main weapon? I
Wasn't there an all girls magic school anime by trigger?

reminder in the french version wand was translated as "baguette."
how do you find these threads so quickly?

Like Zero no Tsukaima?

true, there was! what was it called again?

Aren't pastas supposed to be funny? This is just truth. Kiddies who grew up with Harry Potter like it for the nostalgia, but anyone who read it past the age of twenty sees it for the recycled fantasy trash it is.

Good shit, Yea Forumsbro.

>Aren't pastas supposed to be funny
no dipshit

I know this is pasta, bit it's exactly why they're so popular, they're literature for people who are too stupid to read actual literature

baguette means small stick you deficient mutt, the bread was named like that because it looks like a stick, not the other way around

Japs don't use wands. For magic, at most they do is chant incantations and magic blasts out of their hands.

>animes

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I think you guys are too hard on OP.
I find pic related to be awesome.

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Well, it being true doesn't make it less of a copypasta.

I remember reading an interview of the mangaka saying he was thinking making it about a magic school, but as Harry Potter happened he changed it to another theme because he doesn't want to look like he copied it.

a lot of things in common with light novels, actually

No he always wanted it to be wizards doing magic but his editor told him ninjas were more popular at the time.
It explains why all the powerful moves are just spells instead of any actual ninja stuff.

>fighting with sticks
The absolute STATE of western literature.

Small Wizard Institude was it?

>implying japs wouldn't borrow popular elements from western fiction

Because Japanese censors aren't as afraid of children being exposed to violence, so they don't mind protagonists using actual weapons while I'm sure Rowling would have limited her publishing options and readership if Harry used a sword or a scepter predominantly.

Based and DEHpilled

Nothing about any of those "God-tier" books are actually even remotely good. Especially Atlas Shrugged.

>Atlas Shrugged
>God Tier

Kill yourself Randroid

Because wands are the gayest form of casting magic
Casting straight from hands shows mastery
A staff works as an amplifier
Scepters are sweet looking bling
wands are some weak ass twigs only good for mixing magic potions in big cauldrons or something
I wouldn't even count Rowlings work as proper fantasy settings, like LotR, D&D or MTG.

Does Negima! count?

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How do you morons get baited so easily, that image literally has Clifford in it.

>Casting straight from hands shows mastery
Yes, but fighting with wands makes for some good scenarios like characters being unable to attack or defend if they lose their wands or if they become damaged.

People are going to praise this pasta just because it's anti-Harry Potter but really it's shit. It's all over the place, not funny, no really great lines, and there's so much in Harry Potter you could trashtalk but for some reason you decide on "stretched his legs" and "Stephen King". Try trashing the simplistic themes, shallow worldbuilding, etc. Also, nobody cares if you insult the movies, so just cut that part out, make it all about the books.

Wands are stupid. In fact any kind of magic system that's just "point something at the enemy and say a magic word" or anything similar to that is retarded. It's no better than a power system in a shonen manga that allows anyone to use any kind of power and it just ends up as who can pull more powers out of their ass than the other person. Having limitations is what makes a power system interesting.

Two fantasy manga I'm reading right now with magic are Dungeon Meshi and Witch Hat Atelier. In Dungeon Meshi magic users do have staffs and sometimes wands but they're more or less just used to raise the accuracy of casting magic and aren't required. In WHA "wands" are actually pens that the characters use to draw magic glyphs.

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「STAND BY, READY」

Now that you say it yeah, though unlike people who read light novels and nothing else (I'm talking about people I know at least, I don't really know for sure about Japan) people who read Harry Potter seem to think they're well versed in literature or something.

I don't know of one where wands are the default weapon used, but they do show up from time to time.

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It's a light novel and not a manga or anime but pic related has an entire race using wands as their main weapons.

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Errr... Half of all the mahou shoujo anime?

>Harry Potter
>literature

I don't see how those get stuff from harry potter
they take more stuff from earlier mahou shoujo
only anime I can think of that wouldn't exist without harry potter is LWA

How literate is a? Have you read at least half of the books on there?