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Manga talk

Two fans talk about the mangas they love

Singer Songwriter Aimyon x Voice Actress Wasabi Mizuta

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A conversation about their favorites, family influences, and their top recommendations

Did you know? Tokiwa-so is an apartment building in Tokyo known as the 'birthplace of Manga culture' as many different mangaka have lived here, including Tezuka Osama and Fujiko Fujio

The birthplace of Manga culture

The places every diehard manga fan should know about

Iconic places

Restoring the Tokiwaso Manga Museum

The Tokyo house where a movement came to life

Iconic places

The Mecca of Manga

Where many maestroes of manga spent their youth

The manga magazines

The secret of how the Japanese manga culture maintains its quality and variety

The magazines

What Does a Manga Editor Do?

Sleepeeer Hit depicts the hardships and joys behind the scenes of a manga

The magazines

Japan’s Alternative Comics: Then and Now

An interview with Noriko Tetsuka, the editor-in-chief of AX

Manga x fashion

Off the page and onto the catwalk

The Intimate Relationship Between Shōjo Manga and Fashion

From Harajuku-style brands to famous high fashion brands

Manga on show

The challenge of exhibiting manga

10 Important Manga Exhibitions

The similarities and differences between manga and fine art

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Manga x art

How manga has opened up new possibilities in art

Manga x art

Keiichi Tanaami

The formative experiences that shaped the works of Keiichi Tanaami

Manga x art

Takashi Murakami

A powerful collaboration between manga and art: Doraemon x Takashi Murakami

Manga x art

The Up and Coming Artists

Artists who cross the boundaries of manga and art

The economic impact

The business of the manga boom

Online Exhibit

Manga experience of Jump goes digital

Set to launch manga experience into the digital age

Online Exhibit

A map of the digital future for Jump manga

Examining three features of the MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA

Merchandising and Media Franchises

How manga culture and businesses have expanded into movies, merchandise, novels, and theater

Manga and the Wold of Corporate PR

A look a the manga initiative seeking to support the industries of Kagoshima

Making a Market

How the manga market developed from magazines, to books, to bookstores, to eBooks

Manga Goes Digital

How comics are evolving to suit digital devices, web services, and apps, and new business models.

How manga helps us overcome disaster

From war to earthquakes to COVID-19

The pandemic

Manga During the Pandemic

Recording everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic

Earthquakes

Manga and 3/11

An Interview with Manga Artist Kotobuki Shiriagari

Earthquakes

After The Earthquake

How the Ishinomaki Mangattan Museum became a symbol of restoration

War

Depicting War Today

10 stories about “war” for generations that have never experienced it firsthand

What's taboo about Manga?

Manga does have its critics...

Is Reading Manga a Bad Thing to Do?

A timeline of friction between manga and society

Sealed With a Kiss

The history of the evasive tactics used to show kissing scenes in Manga

Beyond the page

Online Exhibit

A New Dimension of Manga

Characters that leap from the page into the real world

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Manga and Anime

How the relationship between the two mediums has changed over time

Manga around Asia

A look at manga's cousins outside of Japan with the Barbican

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