Japanese Manga

The first manga (Heian Period) of Japan just base on the painting of the animals. These pictures show these animals’ action, do not like the manga in American show a person’s action and words. Most people think that these ancient paintings have nothing to do with modern Japanese manga, so there is no formal name such as “The origin of Japanese manga”.

The word “Manga” first appeared in 1798. In 1814, the famous Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai of the Edo period was the first to use the word “manga” as the title of his work, which refers to the use of random brushwork and simple lines to draw the main characters. Group paintings that highlight features. The content of the pictures is based on mythology, history and daily life. It is undeniable that modern Japanese manga has absorbed many expressions from traditional Japanese paintings such as Zen painting, Ukiyo-e, Kuanghua, and Spring painting. In 1862, Italian Charles Wirgman founded Japan’s first manga periodical “The Japan Punch” in the foreign settlement in Yokohama. In 1877, a “Punch”-style publication “Tuan Tuan Zhen Wen” appeared in Japan, in which the comics used “Balloon Dialog Box” and some Western drawing techniques. In 1902, Japan’s first four-frame manga with typeset dialogue appeared.

Lotte Kitazawa (1876-1955) was the first professional manga artist in Japan and was known as “the ancestor of modern Japanese manga”. Founded “Tokyo Elf” (1905-1915), “Lotte Elf” and other manga periodicals. The popularization of the term “manga” in the modern sense started with “Kitazawa Manga”. In addition, another factor that affects Japanese comics comes from the comic explosion in the 10s and 30s of the 20th centuries in the United States, and the spread of Disney animation has affected many Japanese cartoonists.

The most widely known Japanese manga is the Japanese story manga, and the creator of the story manga is Osamu Tezuka, known as the “God of Manga”. Osamu Tezuka gives manga a new meaning. He absorbed the characteristics of traditional art and tried to apply various impressive drawing techniques to comic creation. He incorporates various film expression techniques such as zoom, wide-angle, and top view into the comics, giving the comics a movie-like dynamic. Osamu Tezuka successfully brought Japanese manga into a new period of development, giving it a distinctive style and laying the foundation for the rapid development of the Japanese manga industry.

Japan is very good at shooting manga into cartoons. Then a series of joint products are produced, such as comics, drawing books, hand-made models and so on. These series of products can often generate huge benefits for these companies or factories, and the prices of some hand-made models are very expensive.

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