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  2. History of manga - Wikipedia

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    The term manga first came into usage in the late 18th century, though it only came to refer to various forms of cartooning in the 1890s and did not become a common word until around 1920. Historians and writers on manga history have described two broad and complementary processes shaping modern manga.

  3. Manga - Wikipedia

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    Manga (漫画, IPA: ⓘ [a]) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. [1] Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, [2] and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. [3] The term manga is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to ...

  4. Lists of manga - Wikipedia

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    Manga (漫画, IPA: ⓘ) are comics created in Japan, or by Japanese creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. [1] The term is also now used for a variety of other works in the style of or influenced by the Japanese comics.

  5. Anime and manga - Wikipedia

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    Anime storylines can include fantasy or real life. They are famous for elements like vivid graphics and character expressions. In contrast, manga is strictly paper drawings, with comic book style drawings. Usually, animes are adaptations of manga but some of the animes with original stories adapted into manga form. [5]

  6. List of best-selling manga - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the best-selling Japanese manga series to date in terms of the number of collected tankōbon volumes sold. All series in this list have at least 20 million copies in circulation. This list is limited to Japanese manga and does not include manhwa, manhua or original English-language manga.

  7. Kitazawa Rakuten - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, he was the chairman of the Nihon Manga Hōkō Kai, a cartoonists' society organized by the government to support the war effort. After the war, Kitazawa spent his last years living and working in a house in Ōmiya in Saitama Prefecture , which in 1966 became the Saitama Municipal Cartoon Art Museum (in Japanese, Saitama ...

  8. Manhua - Wikipedia

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    The word manhua was originally an 18th-century term used in Chinese literati painting.It became popular in Japan as manga in the late 19th century. Feng Zikai reintroduced the word to Chinese, in the modern sense, with his 1925 series of political cartoons entitled Zikai Manhua in the Wenxue Zhoubao (Literature Weekly).

  9. Original English-language manga - Wikipedia

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    An original English-language manga or OEL manga is a comic book or graphic novel drawn in the style of manga and originally published in English. [1] The term "international manga", as used by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, encompasses all foreign comics which draw inspiration from the "form of presentation and expression" found in Japanese manga. [2]