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Giga Town: The Guide to Manga Iconography

by Kouno, Fumiyo

EAN: 9781772943085

$12.99

Category: Comics & Graphic Novels | East Asian Style | General

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publication date: Sep 3, 2024

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Manga symbols - "manpu" in Japanese - are iconic or symbolic expressions used uniquely in manga, such as sweat drops, popping veins, and smoke puffs. Giga Town: A Guide to Manga Iconography! is (probably) Japan's first guide to this manga iconography, collecting and explaining these symbols, with a short manga featuring the frolicking animals of the famous Japanese scroll Choju-jinbutsu-giga to explain each one! Giga Town: A guide to Manga Iconography includes an informative afterward that teaches the flow of manga reading, a great addition for beginning manga readers!