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...Fuji and Ando Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido are both travelogues and social listings, in which every sort of occupation, from pit sawing to innkeeping, gets its allotted description. This scrutiny of lower-class life would never have held so much interest to an earlier Japan. Manga, images of common life, are the direct ancestors of the modern Japanese comic strip...
Since then, it has become an established tradition to bring manga, or comic magazines, to animation. Anime includes science-fiction like mecha (space sagas with robot war machines), dungeons-and-dragons-type fantasy, police/detective series, high school dramas and comedies...
Anime masterpieces are known and loved throughout the Japanese population. Toys, silverware, stationery and T-shirts of the most popular anime characters abound in Japanese stores. Reading manga, the telephone-book-sized comic strips which anime is based on, is a national preoccupation. The anime which is not yet accepted in Japan is just a reflection of its avant-garde nature. The times will probably catch up with anime, not the other way around...
...looking for and don't speak Japanese, you'll be wandering a foreign country. Although little or no explanation is provided in English, if you want Japanese vegetables, noodles or even Japanese pancake mix, Kotobukiya will have it. You can get any variety of Japanese newspaper, magazine or manga (Japanese comics). The comperhensive array of food, Japanese-style cups and bowls and goods gave me the feeling that Kotobukiya served a large and loyal following. If you can only get your favorite toothbrush and hairbrush in Japan and nothing in CVS will do, Kotobukiya will have it. After your meal...
Conant went on to concentrate in chemistry at Harvard, and eventually graduated manga cum laude. He earned a doctorate in chemistry from Harvard...