Japan's New Export
To call manga 'Japanese comics' is like calling a painting
by Michelangelo a picture. Both are true statements and both
are utterly insufficient and degrading. Unlike Western comics,
Japanese manga have a history that stretch back many hundreds
of years. In ancient scrolls you can discover ink drawings that
look disturbingly modern. This has greatly helped to make manga
generally accepted as an art form in Japan, whereas in the West
comics are even today often seen as books for kids.
Japanese manga cover an amazing range. There are manga for all
age levels and interests. The Japanese manga world is actually
highly structured with clearly defined markets that range from
love-starved women to sex-starved perverts.