Anime and manga or animanga[a] for short are forms of mass media produced by the content industry of Japan.[2][3][4]
The anime and manga industry forms an integral part of Japan's soft power as one of its most prominent cultural exports.[4] Anime are Japanese animated shows with a distinctive artstyle. Anime storylines can include fantasy or real life. They are famous for elements like vivid graphics and character expressions. In contrast, manga is strictly paper drawings, with comic book style drawings. Usually, animes are adaptations of manga but some of the animes with original stories adapted into manga form.[5]
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- ^ Manion, Annie (2005). "Discovering Japan: Anime and Learning Japanese Culture" (PDF). East Asian Studies Center, USC. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 15, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2009.
- ^ Hernández, Álvaro David Hernández (2018). "The Anime Industry, Networks of Participation, and Environments for the Management of Content in Japan". Arts. 7 (3): 42. doi:10.3390/arts7030042. S2CID 54694319.
- ^ a b Choo, Kukhee (2012). "Nationalizing 'cool': Japan's global promotion of the content industry". In Otmazgin, Nissim; Ben-Ari, Eyal (eds.). Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia. London: Routledge. pp. 85–105. ISBN 9780203801536.
- ^ "Anime vs. Manga – What's the Difference?". May 20, 2017.
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