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This article is about the comics published in East Asian countries. For other uses, see Manga (disambiguation). Anime and Manga Portal The kanji for "manga" from Seasonal Passersby (Shiki no Yukikai), 1798, by Santō Kyōden and Kitao Shigemasa. Manga (漫画, Manga?) listen (help·info) is the Japanese word for comic (sometimes called komikku コミック) and print cartoons.[1][2] In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II 2.2.1 Shōjo manga 2.2.2 Shōjo manga and Ladies' Comics from 1975 to today In the following decades (1975-present), shōjo manga continued to develop stylistically while simultaneously evolving different but overlapping subgenres.[54] Major subgenres have included romance, superheroines, and redisu / josei 女性 じょせい, whose boundaries are sometimes indistinguishable from each other and from shōnen manga.[7][8] In modern shōjo manga romance, love is a major theme set into emotionally intense narratives of self-realization.[55] Japanese manga/anime critic Eri Izawa defines romance as symbolizing "the emotional, the grand, the epic; the taste of heroism, fantastic adventure, and the melancholy; passionate love, personal struggle, and eternal longing" set into imaginative, individualistic, and passionate narrative frameworks.[56] These romances are sometimes long narratives that can deal with distinguishing between false and true love, coping with sexual intercourse, and friendships or love among women.[54][82][83][84][85] Redisu manga retains many of the narrative stylistics of shōjo manga up to the present day.[45][51]

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20 Nov 2008 at 3:16am 

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Japan's anime guru wants manga-loving PM to keep quiet - AFP

20 Nov 2008 at 3:03am 

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Japan's anime guru wants manga-loving PM to keep quiet
AFP - 1 hour ago
... Hayao Miyazaki wishes one of his industry's most famous fans -- the prime minister -- would just keep quiet about his avowed love of manga comic books. ...
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KDDI to offer manga-themed mobile phone - Mainichi Daily News

20 Nov 2008 at 2:08am 

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KDDI to offer manga-themed mobile phone
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KDDI Corp., which operates the "au" mobile phone brand, will offer a new model featuring the popular manga series "Shacho Shima Kosaku" by Kenshi Hirokane. ...


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