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Comics that got tired of waiting for the movie and just became the movie, panel by panel.
means A style of Japanese comics and graphic novels, typically black-and-white and read right-to-left, spanning genres from children's stories to serious adult drama.
from From Japanese 漫画 (manga), combining 漫 (man, 'whimsical' or 'involuntary/rambling') and 画 (ga, 'picture'). The term was popularized in the early 1800s, notably by artist Hokusai, who used it for his sketchbooks of loosely connected drawings — the word originally suggested something like 'pictures drawn as the brush pleases.' The art form existed in earlier eras too, but 'manga' as the name for Japan's distinct comics tradition solidified in the 20th century.
- reading direction
- right to left, like the rest of Japan reads
- industry scale
- bigger annual sales than most countries music industries
- genre range
- covers cooking, golf, and literal rock strata
- origin myth
- word predates comics, once meant whimsical sketches