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It describes manga’s distinctive visual style, including large eyes and dramatic facial expressions, and explains how American influences and Japanese calligraphy shaped that look. The text also examines publishing practices, the prevalence of long-running series, and the major current shift toward attracting girls through shojo manga and related market developments.","Current Trends in Manga  \nManga is a type of graphic novel.The word manga is Japanese for comic.North America has chosento adopt the term,manga,to refer to graphic novels that were imported from Japan.Manga are visually smallerfrom most North American graphic novels,more similar to an“Archie Digest”(Flint)in height but are muchthicker.They are usually done in black and white and “even though the stories have been translated intoEnglish from their native Japanese,most of them retain their original orientation,\"(Flint)that is,reading fromright to left.North American graphic novels traditionally have the same boxed panel format as comic strips yousee in your local paper.However,a new trend in GN's,possibly because of the influence of manga,is that theyare breaking away from this consistently sized boxed strip paneling.Manga's do not follow this boxed panelformat,but instead use various shapes and sizes.One panel can be square,rectangular,round,or oval,andas small as a corner of the page or as large as the whole.The panels,like the pages,are also read right to left.This way of reading can often lead to problems for readers but most teens interested in manga seem to adaptquickly,and many of the teens I know refuse to read manga not done in the right to left format.  \nThe artistic style most often associated with manga involves large eyes,flowing hair and oftenexaggerated facial reactions to events.  \n“But,ironically,those very features are the result of American influences.When manga artists inJapan began developing their unique style in the post-Second World War era,they based theirdrawings on the huge-eyed animals seen in Disney cartoons like Bambi.These were fused withtraditional Japanese calligraphy art to create something different from both.”(Flint)  \nThis style of artistry has begun to influence North America and some publishing companies,Dark Horsein particular,are releasing manga-like graphic novels.These are referred to by a number of names to try toexplain their relationship to manga;pseudo-manga and American-manga are the two most commonly usedterms.These are not actual manga,since the term refers to Japanese comics alone.  \nManga are almost always released as a series of books.It is not unusual for a manga series to haveeighteen plus volumes,with a new one released in North America monthly,bi-monthly or yearly.Recently therewas a debate on the GNLIB-L list serve about what was the longest manga series.The conclusion was thatGolgo 13 might be the winner with 94 volumes.  \nThe largest trend in manga currently is that it has attracted girls as readers.North American comics andgraphic novels are usually aimed at boys twelve years of age and up into their early twenties.However inJapan there is a whole sub section with in manga that's primary audience are girls and women.These mangasare referred to as shojo manga,girl's comics.Boy's comics are called shonen manga.Shojo has recentlybecome highly popularized with teen girls and sometimes even teen boys in North America.Creating Mangawas a mainly male dominated profession and shojo manga began in Japan as\"syrupy,silly stories the malecreators thought girls wanted to read.\"(Animerica Extra)Osamu Tezuka,regarded as \"the God of Manga”because of his innovations in the field,created a shojo manga in 1954,which was vastly different than anythingthat had previously been released.Ribbon No Kishi(Princess Knight)had a \"brave,dashing heroine andexciting action”(Animerica Extra)as well as “plenty of romance and adventure”(Animerica Extra)within itspages that teen girls loved.This new and innovative shojo manga inspired many teen girls to grow up toproduce a whole new and innovative form of shojo manga.Modern shojo manga has a number of genres that itdraws on including adventure,romance,mystery,teenage life,science fiction and fantasy.The girls andwomen portrayed in the Shojo Manga,specifically those aimed at teens,show women as intelligent andathletic.They rarely have a damsel-in-distres","cbCair6GPldinlGd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair6GPldinlGd","pdf",521926,1,3,"English","en",105,"# Current Trends in Manga\n## Manga in North America and format differences\n## Artistic style and American influence\n## Manga publishing and long-running series\n## Growing popularity of shojo manga","[{\"question\":\"How does manga’s reading direction and panel design differ from typical North American graphic novels?\",\"answer\":\"Manga is read right to left, and panels use varied shapes and sizes instead of consistently boxed strip paneling. 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