A brief introduction to the manga

  

Manga is the Japanese word for comics in general. Outside of Japan, the term manga is used exclusively to refer to Japanese comics.


The manga covers a wide variety of genres and reaches audiences in many different and diverse age groups. Manga is a very important part of the publishing industry in Japan and motivates many adaptations to different formats: animated series, known as anime, movies, video games and novels.


Note: Tagosaku to Mokube Tokyo Kenbutsu (1902) is considered the first manga.

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Terminology


Hokusai Katsushika, a representative of ukiyo-e, coined the term manga by combining the kanji for informal (male) and drawing (ga). It literally translates as "Informal drawing" or "squiggles". The Japanese call it 'insignificant images', also in the manga because they buy more than a billion volumes in black and white annually, printed on cheap paper. The professional who writes or draws manga is known as a manga artist.


The manga industry


Manga in Japan is a true mass phenomenon. A single fact serves to illustrate the magnitude of this phenomenon: in 1989, 38% of all books and magazines published in Japan were manga.


As you can guess from this figure, manga is not just a fad for young people. In Japan there are manga for all ages and social status, including housewives, employees, teenagers, office workers, etc. Erotic manga also known as hentai is a quarter of total sales.


Manga Magazines


Manga magazines are one of the most popular forms of manga distribution in Japan, selling millions of copies every week. Shonen Jump Magazine, Japan's most popular manga magazine, sells around 6 million copies every week. Shonen Magazine follows with around 4 million copies.


Manga magazines are weekly or monthly publications of between 200 and 900 pages in which there are many different manga series consisting of between 20 and 40 pages of the magazine. These magazines are usually printed on poor quality black and white paper except for the cover and usually a few pages from the beginning. If a series is successful, it usually runs for several years within the magazine.

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