Manga, a charmingly popular medium in Japan, differs from American and European-style comics. Manga is based on the audience's taste, and it is a huge business, for it earns over five billion US dollars for Japan.
Originally, manga is published in magazines monthly or weekly; it contains over 300 pages of comics. Amazingly, its theme focuses on a specific people, like boys or girls, history buffs or homemakers and businessmen. Most of them and books are sold in a special bookstore sections or public kiosks.
Besides, there is a kind of manga, and it is tankoban, which is called "graphic novels" in English. It is compilations of a dozen or so episodes to describe a single story. Tankoban's printing costs are higher than the pulpy magazines; tankoban receive the best-seller status after having sold around two million copies, whlie the copies of non-manga books are for one million.
Popular manga are translated into many languages and distributed globally, making its the market even wider.
1.Manga: it is the Japanese word for comic artist or cartoon. Outside of Japan, manga usually refer to Japanese comic books and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese.
2. Kiosk: a small shop/store, open at the front, where newspapers, drinks, etc. are sold.
3. Tankoban: Tankoban, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and it is not part of series, though manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series.
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