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manga

[mahng-guh, mang-] / ˈmɑŋ gə, ˈmæŋ- /
NOUN
graphic novel
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Bleach is regarded as one of the "big three" manga in Japan alongside One Piece and Naruto, and animated adaptations of each are credited with helping to fuel the global popularity of anime.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

There’s a stacked manga gallery for fans of that genre too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

The journey from manga inspiration to publication in an international scientific journal shows that serious research can also be creative, memorable, and accessible.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

But relief is coming for the upwards of 250,000 people from all over the world who attend the WCS every year to embody manga, animation or video game characters.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

As they got closer, Dimple saw that Kevin’s booth was dedicated to comics and manga.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

The same would later be true with automobiles, gadgetry and — for fans of “Demon Slayer,” “One Piece” and other mangas — cartoons, to name just those few.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

Japan discovered its first element, nihonium, No. 113, in 2004, and Chapman reports that Japanese children read mangas dramatizing the work of the country’s top nuclear physicist, Kosuke Morita.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 27, 2019

The sick followed on asses, and amongst them various masculine women, with sarapes or mangas and large straw hats, tied down with coloured handkerchiefs, mounted on mules or horses.

From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

In them were several queer kinds of harpoons, which were to be used in capturing the mangas.

From Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

As for us, we also rolled ourselves in our mangas, and lay down in our barn, but passed a miserable night.

From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca


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