Word: manga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar process goes on in the mass-media arts. Comic books, for instance, are not a peripheral affair in Japan as they are in America. Known as manga, they are a gigantic publishing industry and, sociologically, a fascinating one. Seventeen different comic magazines and 30 volumes of manga collections are issued monthly by Tokyo's main publisher, Kodansha. The comic book is as important a dream mechanism in Japan...
That is not an exaggeration. Manga, Japanese comic books, are more adult and more insidious than TV. Unlike the pulpy, stapled American product, manga are well bound and published in paperback size. The drawings are cinematic, displaying heroes and heroines in explicit sexual and military-war adventures. In recent years, manga have grown into a billion-dollar publishing venture. Doraemon, an atomic-powered robot cat, makes Garfield look like something the human dragged in. Created in 1970, Doraemon has now appeared in a 26-volume collection with sales of $50 million. In 1980 Akira Toriyama sold 15 million copies...