#manga history

France's Obsession With Manga: Why Europe's Biggest Manga Market Isn't Where You'd Expect

Horror Manga: The Lineage from Kazuo Umezu to Junji Ito

Sports Manga: How Slam Dunk Got a Generation of Japanese Kids Playing Basketball

How Dragon Ball Invented the Template Every Battle Shonen Still Uses

Naoki Urasawa: The Mangaka Who Makes You Feel Like You're Reading a Novel

CLAMP: Four Women Who Quietly Became One of Manga's Greatest Forces

Kentaro Miura and the Twenty-Five-Year Creation of Berserk

Rumiko Takahashi: How the Richest Woman in Manga Built Her Empire

Akira Toriyama's Early Career: The Failures Before Dragon Ball

Attack on Titan: How One Manga Became a Global Cultural Event

Comiket: How the World's Largest Self-Publishing Fair Was Born from Fan Frustration

The Gekiga Movement: When Manga Decided to Grow Up

From Hokusai to Tankōbon: The Full History of Manga as a Format

Eiichiro Oda: How One Person Has Sustained One Piece for 27 Years Without Losing Quality

Boys' Love: How Japan's BL Genre Became One of Manga's Largest Global Exports

Shoujo Manga: The Rich Tradition That Half the Conversation About Manga Ignores

Black Jack: The Manga Osamu Tezuka Wrote When He Stopped Caring About Being Acceptable

Doraemon: Japan's Most Beloved Fictional Character and What He Represents

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: 37 Years, Eight Arcs, and a Fashion Empire

Nana: The Unfinished Josei Masterpiece and the Hiatus That Has Lasted 17 Years

Tite Kubo: Bleach, Fashion as Storytelling, and the Arc That Almost Ended Everything

Masashi Kishimoto: What Naruto Got Right, What It Got Wrong, and What It Cost Him