I had been a big fan of manga/anime sense I was very young.
Back then of course, I believed that it was a superior medium from
cartoons/comics from the west. Of course, I now see how foolish I was but
because of this I have been so submerged into the medium, It is difficult for
me to talk about it with a set of new eyes. But for this assignment I read
Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha (or the first volume of it.) I had not read any of
Tezuka’s work, only watched the anime that it influenced. For this it had many
of the same qualities that Anime has, with deep symbolic meanings, and characters
that have to figure out why life is life.
A cool thing about Manga is that the western audience is
growing rapidly thanks to the internet and acceptance of the material. Many
comics, and cartoons are now influenced by anime, making many references to it
and making cartoons deeper than previously done.
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