Manga and Anime

Manga is a terminology for japan’s comic. A word “Manga” used first by an artist named Hokusai that means “human picture to tell something”. Manga is one of popular Japan culture that is very dynamic and already 2 centuries. Manga including caricature, anime, and comic.

Manga divided into two kinds, those are shounen and shoujo. Shounen is boys comic. Like ‘Dragon ball’, which is included in action category. Shoujo is girls comic, like “gals” which is easier to understand and soft.

According to the reader, manga divided into :

Kodomo (for kids), josei or redikomi (for woman), seinen (for man), shoujo (for girls), and shounen (for boys).

Zettai Kareshi (Absolute Boyfriend) manga

Nowadays, manga was very famous in all over the world. Even ever blocked by World War II, but manga always exist, until now on. Everyone in the world know about manga or comic.

People who really addicted to manga called “otaku”. To express their inspiration, there is a show for otaku, named “cosplay”, or costume play. In this show, people wearing anime or comic characters costume, as total as they can, as resemble as the original character, so that it looks like comic or anime character appear in our real world. Not only in cosplay event, wearing anime or comic character clothes already shown in Harajuku style.

Metantei Conan (Detective Conan) Anime

Because of the famous of anime and manga, Japan’s government prepare their young with built Department of Animation from Graduate School of Film, and New Media Tokyo University of The Arts. Presented of this department of animation become an affective step to defend anime and manga in future, with 2 years study with 3 curriculums and direct their young to work in anime and manga production, like 3 dimension, 2 dimension, [project planning, and story writing. The teachers are from anime and manga industry or anime award winner like Yamamoji Koji, Atama Yama, etc.