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Manga was the fastest-growing segment of books in the United States in 2005. In 2020, Japan's manga industry hit a value of ¥612.6 billion due to the fast growth of the digital manga market, while manga sales in North America reached an all-time high at almost $250 million.
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 ...
This is a list of notable manga artists. Romanized names are written in Western order (given names before family names), whereas kanji names are written in Japanese order (family names before given names).
[27] 1900 saw the debut of Rakuten's Jiji Manga in the Jiji Shinpō newspaper—the first use of the word manga in its modern sense, [28] and where, in 1902, he began the first modern Japanese comic strip. [29] By the 1930s, comic strips were serialized in large-circulation monthly girls' and boys' magazine and collected into hardback volumes. [30]
By May 2011, the manga has had over 3 million copies in circulation. [50] In North America, the second volume of the manga reached The New York Times Best-Selling Manga List, placing fourth between April 24 and April 30, 2011; [51] tenth between May 1 and May 7, 2011; [52] and eighth between May 8 and May 14, 2011. [53]
Viz Media licensed the manga in English release. A live-action film adaptation opened in Japan in August 2020, while an anime film adaptation produced by A-1 Pictures premiered in September 2020. By July 2020, the manga had over 5.5 million copies in circulation. In 2018, Love Me, Love Me Not won the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo ...
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Maison Ikkoku (Japanese: めぞん一刻, Hepburn: Mezon Ikkoku, "Ikkoku House") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi.It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from November 1980 to April 1987, with the chapters collected into 15 tankōbon volumes.