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manga

[mahng-guh, mang‑] / ˈmɑŋ gə, ˈmæŋ‑ /
NOUN
graphic novel
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The discovery has significance beyond its memorable connection to manga.

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

In “Daemons of the Shadow Realm,” based on the manga by acclaimed “Fullmetal Alchemist” creator Hiromu Arakawa, Huru leads a simple life in the premodern Edo-style Higashi Village.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Highlights include work by Norman Rockwell and Dorothea Lange, as well as a variety of manga, children’s book illustrations and comics.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

We even tried to make a manga together, but it wasn’t very good.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

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

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

Some strutted around the yard, swinging their bright mangas, or trailing after them the picturesque serape.

From The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid

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




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