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manga

Manga, 'whimsical pictures', was a word for sketchbooks in Edo Japan, made famous by Hokusai's Manga; around 1900 it came to mean cartoons and comics. Korea read it manhwa and China manhua — names English later took for their comics too — and from the 1980s–90s manga itself conquered France, Brazil and the rest of the world.

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manga

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