So, what in the world is manga?
Manga is refered to as a Japanese comic book. Manga, or Japanese style
comics, are considered to be professional comic books. The
writers/artists of manga are called Mangaka. Of course there are fans
that wish to be able to create the same high quality work as
professional writers and artists, which leads these people to also
produce manga. When the amateur writers and artists try to create
manga, they are usually refered to as Doujinshi.
Doujinshi can vary from being either a low or high quality.
Amateur fans will sometimes be noticed by the original writer/artist or
a publication company. If you get pretty lucky, you can get hired to
help work on a manga that is currently being worked on or help create a
new one. If you are even luckier, you can get a job to be able to
create your own manga and get it published.
Manga is a respected form of literature/artform and can be made
for any age group, like young children, teens, adults, and even for the
very perverted people (like Miroku^.~). In some cases, manga can be
considered a predecessor (previous version) of anime, video games or
even live-action movies.
Manga is distributed in Japan by being printed in a book about
as thick as a phonebook called a manga magazine. They are very cheap
and their circulation is wide-spread. These books
come out in weekly or monthly issues and will contain anywhere from
10-20 works from different writers/artists. Each of those books that
come out will feature a certain manga and 10-40 pages of that
particular manga will be featured. This is so people can get an idea of
what each manga is about.
In America, magazines like Shonen Jump feature works such as Bleach,
Naruto, One Piece, DBZ, and more. They're read from right to left (like
a regular manga book) and feature somewhere around 7 titles with a
couple chapters of each of them (around 2). Also, you can find other
things such as fan art, fan mail, advertisements on other anime items
(e.g. movies and video games), and more. You can get a brief idea of
what the anime is about, even if in that issue, they aren't showing
chapter 1. There are about 400 pages in each issue.
Also, distributing manga isn't just by those huge books. You can buy
seperate books of each series. There are around 7 chapters in a book
and there are an average of like 25 books per series, but that is just
an estimate. I recommend getting manga this way rather than in a huge
book that you have to wait a month for each issue.
Copyright © by AnimeLuvers All Right Reserved.
