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What is the first ever produced anime and manga?
What is the first anime ever produced in Japan?
And what is the first anime film and first anime series produced?
I heard that it was Astro Boy, is that true? And what is the first ever manga produced in Japan?
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Why are manga black and white?
This question triggered my curiosity for this question. Why most of manga are black and white? Is this because of more cost if they add colors to it?
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What should a university-level course about manga and anime culture cover as part of its curriculum?
This question is not asking about a course that teaches how to create manga or anime, but a curriculum of a course similar to English literature. Such course would teach the history and culture of anime and manga by studying representative works of…
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Why are manga read from right to left? Has it always been so?
Why are manga read right to left? Has it always been so? Are there any exceptions?
(Flipped mangas are excused from this question.)
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What is the origin of chibi versions of characters?
In anime and manga, there are versions of characters' drawings that are called "chibi" or "super deformed".
What is the history behind this, and when did drawing chibi versions of characters start?
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Origins of the nose-bleed in anime/manga
In a similar spirit to my previous question, I wonder who was the first artist to feature a nose-bleed when thinking, shall we say, "provocative thoughts"? Did it become popularized in anime/manga because of the popularity of the artist's work or…
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What was the first manga in color?
I know that there are mangas printed in color as opposed to black and white. One example of this is Colorful by Torajirō Kishi, which is the only one that I know of. What was the first manga that was printed entirely in color--as opposed to just…
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What percentage of hentai manga artists are female?
I've been wondering about that for a long time, and it turns out (after cursory googling) that a lot of the hentai mangas that get translated into English are drawn by female mangakas, according to their fans and sometimes the artists' personal…
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Did manga from North Korea undergo the same audience changes as in the rest of Asia?
I was looking at Tongil Tour's website and saw that manga is sold on the streets of the DPRK:
I was able to find one manga that was translated into english and a site that sells books from the DPRK, but all ones that looked like they were manga…
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Why is pornographic anime and manga referred to as "hentai" by non-Japanese sources? And when did it start?
If you try to google "hentai definition" most result would define hentai as a Japanese genres of manga and anime with sexually explicit images and plots. But Wikipedia explains it otherwise:
In Japanese, the term describes any type of perverse or…
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Is there a complete physical archive of Weekly Shounen Jump (or Shounen Sunday or Shounen Magazine)?
Considering that Weekly Shounen Jump (or Sunday or Magazine) have given rise to many franchises of great cultural significance, is there a library, museum, or some place that has a complete physical archive of these periodicals, in Japan or anywhere…
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What defines the art-style of Japanese manga?
Even though manga has lots of different art styles we still have an idea that certain styles are "manga style" and other ones aren't. What is it about an art style that lets us know it's manga style? What elements reappear across many manga? What…
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What was the first Hentai ever made?
I just want to ask what is the first Hentai manga and what is the first Hentai anime?
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Why do females always run like this?
There are many examples of completely serious or plainly normal scenes in anime where a girl is running but then, I have to burst out in laughter because they are swinging their arms horizontally left and right.
I swear, no one runs like this. I've…
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What were the first anime and manga based on real idols?
AKB0048 (anime) and AKB49 (manga) are based on popular Japanese idol group AKB48.
What were the first manga and anime based on real idols instead of fictional characters?
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