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On Friday, Americans solemnly observed the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, honoring nearly 3,000 lives lost in a day that altered U.S. history. Ceremonies unfolded across the country, notably at Ground Zero, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field, where hijacked planes had struck two decades ago.

For the manga business, 2025 must have seemed like a bad case of deja vu. After a steady period of dizzying growth in the North American market between 2020 and 2022, during which the Japanese-originating genre had become the dominant sales driver for comics and graphic novels, the segment had entered a three-year stretch of…