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manga

[mahng-guh, mang-] / ˈmɑŋ gə, ˈmæŋ- /
NOUN
graphic novel
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Many of the galleries are devoted to the type of work most often seen in “special exhibits” — children’s books, manga and the sci-fi/fantasy works of Frazetta.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

French President Emmanuel Macron hailed the move as on a scale not seen "since Disneyland Paris", and added "you know my interest for manga".

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

Instead, she tiptoes along the basement wall, having adopted a battle stance I’ve seen in the shonen manga she loves to read.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

We see mangas and tilmas, and men wearing the sandal, as in Eastern lands.

From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart

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

The morning was cold and raw, with a dense fog covering the plains, so that we could scarcely see each other's faces, and found our mangas particularly agreeable.

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


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