Wednesday, 23 October 2019

I LOVE MANGA!




Useless to say I’m fond of Manga, that’s why I decided to start writing my first post for Let’s Blog! about them. Is there anybody there with the same passion for Japanese manga? I hope you’ll get in touch in the comment section, then.





Manga are Japanese comics or graphic novels that include a big variety of genres like adventure, romance, historical, comedy, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, horror and also erotic. An author of manga is called Mangaka
The word manga dates back to 1815 when the great Japanese painter Hokusai Katsushika introduced it to define his work. The word manga is the union of kanji (man) = strange, funny and (ga) = image, drawing. So literally  is "funny pictures" or "moving pictures".




Its origin can be dated back to the Heian period (749 - 1185) with the first painted scrolls: the emakimono. They associated the images with calligraphic texts, telling a story that is discovered by unfolding the scroll.The accompanying text is very short, almost only a caption, pre-eminence is given to the image that can, by itself, tell the story. This feature is perfectly preserved in modern manga.
The word manga, in other countries, means Jap anese comic strips but in Japan this word collects all types of comics,  even the European ones.
Manga, with its childlike features like big eyes (which, however, is not always present given the different existing styles as each mangaka has its own style of drawing), may suggest that they are intended for children and young people but that’s not the case: the plots of manga can include themes and topics that are not suitable for children or young people.




You start reading manga from the last page and each page from the right to the left. To read the cartoons you start at the top right and go down. Usually the illustrations are in black and white, rarely are coloured.
In Japan,   before the tankobon version is put on sale, they publish weekly chapters of the story on the famous Japanese magazine Jump Comics. The tankobon version is the paper format  for manga,  made up of about 200 pages, 13cm x 18cm. This format make it easy to take them with you.

Akira




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