Goro Shigeno. Tatsuya Uesugi. Eijun Sawamura. Hyūma Hoshi. All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga ...

Prologue. The Historical Origins and Changing Meaning of "Manga" up to 1923 -- 1. "Popular in Society at Large": The First Talking Manga -- 2. "Listen Vunce!": The Audiovisual Revolution in Graphic ...

For its whole history, one of the most troubling parts of anime has been its relationship to its source material. For any given adaptation, there are inevitable arguments about whether the source or ...