ORIGIN OF MANGA:
“Choju-giga” (“Scrolls of Frolicking Animals”), a series of drawings of frogs, rabbits and other animals produced in the 12th and 13th centuries by several artists, is widely believed to be the first manga in Japan. The techniques used then, such as how to draw a character’s legs to simulate running, would not appear out of place in contemporary comics.
But in “Manga no Rekishi” (“The History of Manga”), author and researcher Isao Shimizu defines manga as popular works sold to the masses. According to this definition, Shimizu asserts, Japan’s first manga was “Toba Ehon,” a book of drawings accompanying a story featuring the lives of ordinary people in the Edo Period (1603-1867) that was sold by an Osaka publisher in the 18th century.
Newspapers and magazines in the 20th century ran comic strips to help gain readership. But the largest contributors to the development of manga were the weekly and monthly comic magazines that emerged in the 1960s, which carry a collection of about 10 or 20 series installments per edition.
“Comic magazines are the first place where manga artists were given a chance to show their work. Without them, manga artists would not have been born,” manga critic Haruyuki Nakano says.
ORIGIN OF ANIME:
“Choju-giga” (“Scrolls of Frolicking Animals”), a series of drawings of frogs, rabbits and other animals produced in the 12th and 13th centuries by several artists, is widely believed to be the first manga in Japan. The techniques used then, such as how to draw a character’s legs to simulate running, would not appear out of place in contemporary comics.
But in “Manga no Rekishi” (“The History of Manga”), author and researcher Isao Shimizu defines manga as popular works sold to the masses. According to this definition, Shimizu asserts, Japan’s first manga was “Toba Ehon,” a book of drawings accompanying a story featuring the lives of ordinary people in the Edo Period (1603-1867) that was sold by an Osaka publisher in the 18th century.
Newspapers and magazines in the 20th century ran comic strips to help gain readership. But the largest contributors to the development of manga were the weekly and monthly comic magazines that emerged in the 1960s, which carry a collection of about 10 or 20 series installments per edition.
“Comic magazines are the first place where manga artists were given a chance to show their work. Without them, manga artists would not have been born,” manga critic Haruyuki Nakano says.
ORIGIN OF ANIME:
- At the start of the 20th century
- Originated in Japan and parts of Korea
- Anime was the mainstream in Japan in the 1980s while Americans were just starting to use it. This created a boom in the production of the animation style
- Emerged as a style in the 1960s as we know it today with the work of Osamu Tezuka (creator of Astro Boy) and spread internationally in the late 20th century