Strange Story Structures...do they fly?

As the title asks. Now that I have found artists willing to work with me I primarily write in the world of comics/manga. However...despite that, I can't help but want to dabble in other forms of writing, and had the crazy idea to take the kind of "semi-episodic" storytelling you see in some animes, comics/mangas and tv shows and translate it into a purely prose story. The basic idea would be that instead of one continous plot broken into chapters, you have a collection of connected short stories or "episodes" that act as the 'chapters" of a larger storyline while also being their own contained narratives. Much like, say Salior Moon, which had a contained plot each episode(usually focused around a "monster of the week" at least initally) but also a larger, overall plot that these episodes told at the same time.

Would such an experiment be viable in the world of YA lit, or is messing with the narrative structure by working with such interconnected short stories in place of traditional chapters just make it too difficult a sell?