Amazing fats about Manga Art

1. Manga art comes from 'man' and ga' and means crazy sketches

or irresponsible pictures.

2.Amazingly, manga is now in the English dictionary and means

Japanese comics (the word for the Japanese animation).

3.Manga art makes up 40% of all publications sold in japan.

4.The biggest selling manga art week was shoneu jump,

home of dragon ball.In only one week it sold over 6 million

copies.

5.Manga art are the sources for huge number of hit films ,

videos and TV shows, both live action and animated.

6.Rubbery boy-pirate one piece set the record for the highest

first print run of a manga book at 2.25 million copies.

7.Osamu Tezukas, create'r of Astro boy,created over 150,000

pages and is revered in Japan as the god of Manga.

8.Katsuhior Otomo adapted his own apocalypitic Akira Manga

into the spectacular 1989 animated movie.Ofamo's latest film

is steam boy,just opening in Japan.

9.several of the most successful Manga creators are coomen

such as Rumiko Takahashi of Inu Yasha fame, who was raked

as one of the ten weathiest people in the country.

10.Nearly half millions visitors come to the Comiket Manga

market places to buy thousands of dojinshi or self -published

fazines,its one of the biggest gatherings of any kind of Japan.