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Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. By
Frederik L. Schodt. Foreword by Osamu Tezuka. Tokyo, New York, and San Francisco: Kodansha International, 1983. 260pp.

Paperback: ISBN-10: 0870117521 - ISBN-13: 978-0870117527
Hardcover: ISBN-10: 
0870115499 (1983 edition)

Library of Congress:
Dewey: 741.5/0952 19
 
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  • FOREWORD by Osamu Tezuka . . . 10
  • A Thousand Million Manga . . . 12
    • Themes and Readers . . . 15
    • Reading, and the Structure of Narrative Comics . . . 18
    • Why Japan? . . . 25
  • A Thousand Years of Manga . . . 28
    • The Comic Art Tradition . . . 28
    • Western Style . . . 38
    • Safe and Unsafe Art . . . 49
    • Comics and the War Machine . . . 55
    • The Phoenix Becomes a Godzilla . . . 60
  • The Spirit of Japan . . . 68
    • Paladins of the Past . . . 68
    • Modern-Day Warriors . . . 73
    • Samurai Sports . . . 79
  • Flowers and Dreams . . . 88
    • Picture Poems . . . 88
    • Women Artists Take Over . . . 94
    • Sophisticated Ladies . . . 98
  • The Economic Animal at Work and Play . . . 106
    • Pride and Craftsmanship . . . 106
    • Mr. Lifetime Salary-Man . . . 111
    • Mah Jongg Wizards . . . 114
  • Regulation versus Fantasy . . . 120
    • Is There Nothing Sacred? . . . 120
    • Social and Legal Restraints . . . 126
    • Erotic Comics . . . 132
  • The Comic Industry . . . 138
    • Artists . . . 138
    • Publishers . . . 143
    • Profits . . . 145
  • The Future . . . 148
    • The New Visual Generation . . . 148
    • Challenges for the Industry . . . 150
    • First Japan, Then the World? . . . 153
  • Selecions from Japanese Comics . . . 159
    • from PHOENIX (Hi no Tori), Osamu Tezuka . . . 160
    • from GHOST WARRIOR (Borei Senshi from the series Senjo), Reiji Matsumoto . . . 188
    • from THR ROSE OF VERSAILLES (Berusaiyu no Bara), Riyoko Ikeda . . . 215
    • from BAREFOOT GEN (Hadashi no Gen), Keiji Nakazawa . . . 238
  • INDEX . . . 257
  • MORE ON JAPANESE COMICS . . . 259
  • LAST WORDS . . . 260

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