As it turns out, combat scenes hardly feature in the manga of the first decade after Japan surrendered to the Allied forces.

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The 47-year-old, a cartoonist himself, took three years to complete his survey, published in book form under the title Manga and War.

CNN: The War Mangas

Why not look at the images of war in manga?

CNN: The War Mangas

Dortmund flew off to La Manga in Spain, to the kind of seaside resort where players could work on tactical matters and fitness in the morning, and hone their nine-irons in the afternoon.

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Destruction portrayed in Akira and other manga, Natume says, represents the Japanese desire to build a brave new world as old values are destroyed.

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In 1976, Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree in industrial design and an enduring fascination with the Japanese comic strips called manga.

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The manga-inspired Korean drama Boys Over Flowers is 100% subtitled in a couple of dozen languages including Persian and Tagalog.

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Pass any newsstand or bookshop in the country and you will spot heaving shelves packed with hundreds of colourful local and international publications, sitting amid Manga comic books, novels and reference titles.

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