Manga was born in Japan in the 18th century, and this new sort of comic, literally exploded in 50's and 60's, when the Land of the Rising Sun has experienced a major and dazzling economic expansion.
At the beginning, the manga comic book's purpose was to propose a practical and cheap solution to spend time between the various free moments of a worker's day (trips and waiting rooms of subways, buses, trains, Shinkansen), and for all types of workers (from businessmen to simple workers).
The draftsmen of mangas, called mangakas, use a very economical paper, because this is recycled. It looks like newspapers.
First mangas' texts were neither sophisticated, nor very big. Indeed, an average Japanese can read a manga with 200 pages in only 15 minutes!
Mangas deal with a lot of varied themes, but the most often, we can find: love stories, martial arts, housing estate, science fiction, and also eroticism or pornography.
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