The history of Manga

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Mangas are comics and printed cartoons that are drawn and made in Japan. Mangas are very similar to comics but yet very different also. In the next lines I will speak about those differences and also the history of Manga and how it became 4.4 billion dollars a year business in Japan also the fact that it’s also becoming a global thing. The Mangas modern form (the way how they draw and from which side of the paper does the story start etc...) started shortly after world war two but for the actual Manga as its own art it had a much more and longer complex history in the Japanese art history. Mangas in Japan are widely read buy almost all ages the reason for that is that mangas includes a wide range of subjects like action-adventure, romance, sports and games, drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, horror and others. Since the 1950s, manga have steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry and the growth kept increasing until it represented around 4.4 billion dollars in the market on 2006. For the world wide Manga also increased in its popularity its market in the USA on 2006 was around $175-200 million. Manga is usually printed in white and black only and they are printed in a big book that holds a lot of separate stories from different artist if one story becomes popular they will purplish a big book that collects all the already printed chapters. If the Manga became more popular it even gets animated after the Manga is already finished or even if it’s still running even so some of the mangas are made from a previously existing live action or animated films. There are two main views about how the modern Manga took its form the first one attribute to the role of cultural and historical events following World War II and the second one is the role of the pre-war. The first view insists that the modern Manga took its shape as a

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