ShiHuangdi1974

Look I love anime and have been a fan of it for decades (Macross, Black Lagoon, Gundam, Ninja Scroll, Robotech, Crying Freeman, etc), but Manga & Anime are businesses. Money is the MOST important part, and studios will always prioritize making as much profit as possible over art, storytelling, or the demands of the hard-core fans.

Now it may over the long term ruin an IP, but every studio / publisher is going to milk an IP for all it's worth, as quickly as possible. You never now how long that IP is going to be popular, and the way technology / media us changing, the window gets shorter and shorter. Which is why Disney is milking Star Wars & Marvel, Amazon is milking Lord of the Rings, Games Workshop is milking Warhammer 40k, and so on. Putting out product after product, changing lore and characters to make it more mainstream, and so on.

I've recently gotten into donghua and manhua. When it comes to Chinese sci-fi fantasy, the best for me is Swallowed Star, Legend of Star General, and 40 Milleniums of Cultivation. The spreading popularity of donghua is simply part of the story of the rise if China, or more correctly it's resurgence or return.

Since for most of its history it was either the Far East's leading or dominant power (economic, military, technological, & cultural), or the world's greatest power. With intermittent periods of weakness lasting 1-2 centuries.

Is Anti-Spiral a God? It's the physical manifestation of the Anti-Spiralians consciousness. In some fictional universes that would be a God or Cosmic Entity and in some it would not. For example in Marvel the Overmind / Unimind of the Eternals (collective energies / minds) is not a God much less a Cosmic Abstract.

Tanooki00

The Beyonders are a race or group of Cosmic Beings created by the Multiversal Celestials to maintain/ take care of the Multiverse. They may be more powerful than the Celestials themselves (see the Incursions story arc), but there is also evidence that they may simply work for the Cekestials, which put them under the Celestials

What the....? Cosmic Abstracts and Gods are two different things in the Marvel Multiverse. Generally speaking, Gods are insignificant in power compared to the Cosmic Abstracts.

If you want to include the Abstracts, then the list should be as follows:

1. One-Above-All

2. One-Below-All

3. Living Tribunal

4. Tied: Eternity, Infinity, and the various Firmaments (each a previous multiverse)

5. Tied: Master Order & Lord Chaos, Death & Onlivion

6. Phoenix

7. Tied: Galactus and the various Celestials

8. Elder Gods (Terran & Alien), such as Shuma-Gorath and Cthon

9. Skyfathers (e.g. Odin & Zeus), and various alien gods

10. Hell-Lords