…mystery, romance, fantasy, suspense and sports. There are also different types of manga, Kodomomuke, Shonen, Shojo, Seinen, and Josei. Each represents a different type of manga which we will talk about in Chapter 2.

After World War II, young teenage boys emerged as the first readers. From 1950 to 1969, two major groups formed creating two main styles of manga: Shonen and Shojo. Shojo continued to still develop until the mid to late 1970’s while also evolving and overlaying different subgenres. Such as romance, superhero’s and “lady comics” also known today as Josei manga. People of all ages are mesmerized by how manga looks and how the emotions are portrayed alongside the clean black and white lines.

Manga has been a steadily growing industry since the 1950s, representing an almost four billion US dollar market in 2016. Gaining a worldwide audience in Europe, the Middle East, U.S., and Canada. In France, manga represents ten times the amount that the United States has consecutively produced, representing a 260 million Euro profit. In 2016, the sales of manga prints had decreased from the previous year’s profit, amounting to nearly 195 billion yen. The manga print market has shown a steadily decrease since the mid-1990’s but the digital manga market has shown a steady increase of over 145 billion yen. This shows how the digital end of manga is becoming more mainstream as the years go by.

Manga stories have typically been printed in black and white but there are
full-color manga that exist. The first publication of manga was in 1874 as a magazine created by Eshinbun Nippouchi. It contained simple drawings and ended after three issues, due to not selling as expected. In 1905, the publishing of manga boomed because of the Russo-Japanese war. When a manga story is published into a magazine, it is usually only an episode at a time along with multiple other stories competing to gain popularity. These episodes continue into the next issue until they become quite popular, resulting in them in being republished into paperback volumes an…