Nodame Cantabile - What's Cool - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A comic about classical music has become hugely popular among children who used to think that this type of music was too difficult and hardly ever listened to it. Nodame Cantabile is a serial manga (comic) that has appeared in the girls' comic magazine Kiss since 2001. The manga is a comedy about a group of students at a music university who study classical music, including instruments like the piano, violin, timpani, and oboe, as well as conducting.

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Nana is the title of the latest hit manga to take Japan by storm, and unlike in most comic success stories, a large proportion of Nana fans are female.

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Hachimitsu to Kuroba (Honey and Clover) is a serialized manga (comic) that follows the lives of five young people attending an art college as they deal with unrequited love and other life issues. It has recently been turned into a TV anime series, and a big-screen version is now planned.

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Manga Miracle | Arts and Entertainment | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
For a major Hollywood project, Afro Samurai's roots are about as obscure as can be. The soon-to-be-released movie originated as a manga created in Japan by Okazaki Takashi, who originally funded the comic out of his own pocket.

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Follow the lives of Sakura and her younger brother Ichiro through this easy-to-understand manga comic strip that introduces Japanese culture to kids.

Manga on the Move | Arts and Entertainment | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
Using cell phones to view manga is one of the newest and fastest-growing applications of mobile technology in Japan.

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There is a growing movement among Japanese universities and graduate schools to take an academic approach to anime and manga. Once seen as children's entertainment, these forms are coming to be viewed in an entirely new light.

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How many Japanese comic strips can you name? You may have heard of Doraemon, Dragon Ball, City Hunter, Dr. Slump, Sailor Moon, Cobra, Akira, or Ranma 1/2. Japanese comic strips (called "manga") are very popular in the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Fans like them for their high-quality art interesting story lines. Taiwan, Hong Kong, other places Asia, there several magazines about Japanese comic strips.

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Thirty Years of Gags | Arts and Entertainment | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
The long-running boys' comical manga Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Koen Mae Hashutsujo (From the Police Box at Kameari Park, Katsushika Ward), better known as Kochikame, turns 30 this year.

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Close "Ochiken." (C)Kawashima Yoshio, Futabasha Publishers Ltd.

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Close "Ocha Nigosu." (C)Nishimori Hiroyuki/Shogakukan Inc.