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Pop Culture In/Out Japan:Manga & Anime

Manga and anime have their origins in medieval Japanese art forms like Zen cartoons and comic animal scrolls. Different genres of manga and anime developed targeting certain audiences - shojo focuses on romances for female audiences while shonen features battles to become stronger for male audiences. Popular manga like Dragon Ball and Naruto were serialized in magazines. Manga is a major part of Japanese pop culture with over 1.3 billion manga published annually in Japan.

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Pop Culture In/Out Japan:Manga & Anime

Manga and anime have their origins in medieval Japanese art forms like Zen cartoons and comic animal scrolls. Different genres of manga and anime developed targeting certain audiences - shojo focuses on romances for female audiences while shonen features battles to become stronger for male audiences. Popular manga like Dragon Ball and Naruto were serialized in magazines. Manga is a major part of Japanese pop culture with over 1.3 billion manga published annually in Japan.

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Pop Culture In/Out Japan:

Manga & Anime


The Origins & History of Manga

• The Zen cartoons of the medieval


period and the comic animal scrolls of
the tenth century were the very first
examples of manga (Japanese comics).
• In the 13th century, pictures of the
afterlife and animals started appearing
on temple walls and are similar to
modern manga.
• From there, manga started to branch
out to many other subjects.
• The manga drawn on wood blocks in
the 1600's was known as edo.
• Edo was often graphically erotic, but
branched out to encompass other
subjects like buildings and satire

Above: Example of Edo. Below: example of Animal Scrolls, choujuugiga


Manga vs Comics
• Cheaper paper, much thicker books
• Very affordable magazines with feedback channels –
arguably the world’s biggest focus group
• Money made through serializing popular comics
• Anyone can be an anime artist
• Over 1.3 billion manga published every year, ~30% of
all books published in Japan

Manga & Anime


Genres based on Target
• Shojo: manga/anime that are made
with a female audience in mind.
– Many deal with romances between
young men and women
• Vampire Knight (Manga)
• Dengeki Daisy (Manga)
• Kimi ni Todoke (Anime/Manga)
• Ao Haru Ride (Anime/Manga)
• My Little Monster (Anime/Manga)

Manga & Anime


• Shonen: manga/anime that are made with a
male audience in mind.
– Usually the main characters often go through
battles to become stronger.
• One Piece (Anime/Manga)
• Fairy Tail (Anime/Manga)
• Dragonball (Z) (Anime/Manga)
• Death Note (Anime/Manga)
• Deadman Wonderland (Anime/Manga)
Manga & Anime
Genres based on Storyline
• Action: By far one of the most common genres
out there.
– Normally they tends to be lacking in substance
although exciting due to lack of character
development or an underlying story.
• Dragon ball z
• Bleach
• Mirai Nikki
• Shingeki no Kyojin

Manga & Anime


Popular Manga/Anime
Dragon Ball
• First appeared in
Shonen Jump (1984)
• Manga/Anime/ Games
• 12th most popular
• Monkey-tailed boy who
fights many battles

Manga & Anime


Genres based on Storyline
• Adventure :Most popular genre in Anime.
– Normaly it deals alot with characters moving
around and exploring  new places, these anime
tend to be very long and drawn out but the
characters typically have a solid background.
• One piece
• Fairy Tail
• Naruto

Manga & Anime


Popular Manga/Anime
Naruto
• First published in
Shonen Jump (1999)
• Ranked Japan’s 17th
favorite anime
• Ninja with demon
trapped within him

Manga & Anime


Genres based on Storyline
• Comedy – The most predominantly Used
Anime genres yet is almost never used on its
own.
– deals with usually light humor although it is very
easily overdone.
• D-frag

Manga & Anime


Genres based on Storyline
• Fantasy – Magic worlds, magical powers and
monsters, these are the main components
that make up fantasy anime.
– characters often have very poor backgrounds but
the art is almost always breathtaking with unique
scenery and magnificent character detail.
• No Game No life
• Fairy tail

Manga & Anime


Genres based on Storyline
• Love / Romance – This is a relatively popular
genre which deals with the detailled creation
and progression of the romantic relationship
between two characters.

Manga & Anime

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