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  2. Manga - Wikipedia

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    Manga (Japanese: 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 ...

  3. History of manga - Wikipedia

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    [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]

  4. Anime and manga - Wikipedia

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    The anime and manga industry forms an integral part of Japan's soft power as one of its most prominent cultural exports. [4] Anime are Japanese animated shows with a distinctive artstyle. Anime storylines can include fantasy or real life. They are famous for elements like vivid graphics and character expressions.

  5. Comic book - Wikipedia

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    Manga (漫画) are comic books or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, though the art form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term manga is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning in general. Outside Japan, the word is typically used to ...

  6. Shōnen manga - Wikipedia

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    A manga magazine is typically several hundred pages long, and contains over a dozen series or one-shots. [47] The largest Japanese shōnen magazines in terms of circulation are Weekly Shōnen Jump by Shueisha, Weekly Shōnen Magazine by Kodansha, and Weekly Shōnen Sunday by Shogakukan; these publishers are also the largest publishers of manga ...

  7. Tankōbon - Wikipedia

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    A stack of manga tankōbon. A tankōbon (単行本, "independent or standalone book") [a] is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as shinsho and bunkobon. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that was previously published in a serialized format.

  8. Gekiga - Wikipedia

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    Gekiga (劇画, lit. ' dramatic pictures ') is a style of Japanese comics aimed at adult audiences and marked by a more cinematic art style and more mature themes. Gekiga was the predominant style of adult comics in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s.

  9. Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics - Wikipedia

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    Manga! The World of Japanese Comics is a 1983 book by Frederik L. Schodt . Published by the Japanese publisher Kodansha , it was the first substantial English-language work on Japanese comics , or manga , as an artistic , literary , commercial and sociological phenomenon.

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