If you happen to be in Japan, the news shock It can not be avoided. Starting from disorientation in space with a sense of falling into another universe to surprise quite ordinary things. For example, you, the tourists from the country of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, You may be surprised that in Japan the book read is not accepted. Literature - it is not modern, especially for the society, in which the first value is pure information.

Much faster and more convenient to scroll through the volume of Japanese comics - Manga - and be aware of the content, in addition to the same text can be fun to deliver high-quality drawing.

Of course, comic books - a phenomenon of American culture. After Japanese fall of the Iron Curtain began modernization of the country, millions Japanese began to adopt the experience of the western colleagues. Among them were artists, who en masse have learned Western painting techniques. American Comics have found new functions, design, and value to the Japanese reading audience. The Americans have come up, but not brought to mind. Japanese comic books presented new features.

In fact, there was a manga after World War II, when Tezuka Osamu, now referred to as the father of anime, returned from an internship at Disney. In Based on this experience, he created his own style. On paper it is cheap drawing thin comic books, was sold for mere pennies. But the first of its work ("New Treasure Island") furor - manga was released with a circulation of half a million an instance of, and it's - in the war-ravaged country! Even then, the basic rules have been identified and graphic techniques of drawing manga, on the basis of which the followers of Osama draw still.

Manga has become a full direction of mass culture. AT Each bookstore right at the entrance of the mountain you will meet comic at the exits Metro - a basket filled to the brim clogged plump volumes. There are manga for children teenagers, manga for clerks (stories move up the career ladder and social success), for housewives. In order not to waste time on complex choice - on each volume are marked "for six years," "for middle school age "," read the road "... The second strong trend of popular culture - Anime - in most cases, is created based on the successful manga.

Manga - the daily reading of the nation with the world's highest IQ. Minimum text, images maximum. Read one page takes less than five seconds, all pages can be five or six hundred, so in one trip Metro can read the whole work. Bright volumes of manga appear daily on the shelves and disappearing, drawn quickly (time manga artist - mangaka - such as stressful as an employee of a huge corporation), fast are read and forgotten. But, as in any field of mass culture, there talented authors who are the strength to turn a one-time reading in piece of art.

Now manga widespread outside of Japan. America is one of the first countries to begin to translate Japanese comics. Now they are common in France, in Germany and in Canada. Gradually manga is distributed throughout Europe and the situation is worst of all, she presented in Russia. However, despite the significant import volumes Markets absolutely not comparable. Manga outside Japan - a rare, exotic a product which delight and euphoria among fans of Japanese culture.

In a country where the sun goes down before the rest World time - not an abstract concept, but it is felt, are subject to it speed trains, molnienostny Internet and popular culture. Manga - a phenomenon natural and logical reasoned, as well as the replacement of "real" References to the back of supply and demand. It may be just ahead of Japan rest of the world. It may be - irrespective of their own goes own way. She is no stranger.

Daria Petchorin

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