1. DE-MYSTIFYING MANGA: AN INTRODUCTION FOR PATRONS OF ALL AGES Pamela Jayne & Krista King-Oaks

2. MANGA VS. ANIME Manga = Text/BookAnime = TV/Film

3. MANGA Whimsical comic Illustrations in black & white Read right to left Serialized Multiple Genres Multiple ages/audiences

4. ANIME Derived from English word “animation” “Japanimation” Feature films to manga adaptations

5. READING WESTERN COMICS VS. MANGA Western  Reads: L  R  Usually in full color  More square panels  More varied art styles  Third-person narrative  More text heavy; narration Eastern  Reads: R  L (“backwards”)  Usually in black and white  More fluid layout  Defined by specific art style  First-person narrative  Dialog and visuals move story

6. HOW TO READ MANGA VISUAL AID

7. Image credit: http://www.mangaforkids.com/images/howto-spread.jpg

8. MAJOR PUBLISHERS  Marvel Comics  DC Comics  Dark Horse Comics  Image Comics  IDW Publishing  Gemstone Publishing  Fantagraphics  Kodansha  Viz  Yen Press

9. BLOGS TO FOLLOW Good Comics for Kids (School Library Journal) No Flying No Tights Graphic Novel Reporter About.com Manga Anime News Network

10. WEBSITES/APPS  Viz Media  Yen Press  Image Comics  Dark Horse Comics  Kaboom! Studios  Marvel  DC

11. MANGA/ANIME RATINGS  *Not necessarily comparable to Western age rating systems

13. AGE RATINGS Age Ratings Snapshot on Good Comics for Kids http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/2011/10/25/question-tuesday-age-ratings-snapshot/

14. MANGA CATEGORIES Kodomo  Published for children  Beginning readers through elementary school  Limited appeal in American markets  Titles not originally released as Kodomo can be released in US as all ages title

15. CHILDREN’S MANGA  Pokemon  Hikaru No Go  Dragon Ball Z  Beyblade  Fairy Idol Kanon  Yotsuba

16. BROAD MANGA CATEGORIES Shonen  Boys, 10-18 years old  Focus on friendship  Adventures; coming of age  Comedy  Sports  Sci-fi  Shonen Jump Shojo  Girls, 10-18  Focus on friendship, love  Comedy  Romance  Paranormal  Shojo Beat

17. POPULAR SHONEN MANGA Bleach Death Note Fullmetal Alchemist InuYasha Naruto One Piece

18. POPULAR SHOJO MANGA Dengeki Daisy Fruits Basket Fushigi Yugi Sailor Moon Tokyo Mew Mew “Alice” series

19. MANGA CATEGORIES Seinen  “Men’s comics”  Geared towards older teens and adult men  Realistic take on life  More explicit violence, nudity and sex  Fan service is common and more explicit  Often gritty and realistic feel

20. SEINEN MANGA TITLES  Black Lagoon  Trigun  Akira  Berserk  Neon Genesis Evangelion  Oh My Goddess

21. MANGA CATEGORIES Josei  “Women’s comics”  Geared towards older teens and adult women  Realistic take on life – relationships and single women  More explicit violence, nudity and sex  Fan service is less common

22. JOSEI MANGA TITLES  Butterflies, Flowers  Ristorante Paradiso  Honey and Clover  Little Butterfly  Don’t Blame Me  Camera, Camera, Camera

23. YAOI AND YURI  YAOI  Sometimes called Shonen-Ai or Boy’s Love  Depicts romances between two male characters  Can be mild or explicit  Tend to be written by women for women  Do not typically reflect realistic relationships  YURI  Depicts romances between two female characters  Tend to be written for men.  Do not typically reflect realistic relationships

24. MANHWA  Korean comics  Read left to right  Bride of the Water God  The Color of Earth  Forest of Gray City  Moon Boy  13 th Boy

25. MANHUA  Chinese comics  Reads right to left  Appear both in full color and in black and white  The History of the West Wing  Wild Animals

26. IF YOU LIKE… Action/Historical Fiction/Suspense: Afterschool Charisma Black Butler D Gray-Man Comedy: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzymiya Ouran High School Host Club Ranma One Half

27. IF YOU LIKE… Paranormal Romance: -Black Bird -The Earl and the Fairy -Rosario+Vampire Realistic Romance: -Ai Ore! -La Corda d’Oro -Toradora!

28. POPULAR SERIES ADAPTATIONS

29. PSSST…WE HAVE A SECRET… You don’t have to be an expert, or even like manga or anime, to collect, advocate, and program with it in your library!

30. QUESTIONS? Krista King-Oaks Children’s Programming Librarian KCPL, Covington Branch krista.king-oaks@kentonlibrary.org Pamela Jayne Teen Librarian BCPL, Main Library pjayne@bcpl.org

31. FURTHER RESOURCES Library Collections for Teens: Manga and Graphic Novels by Kristin Fletcher-Spear & Merideth Jenson- Benjamin, VOYA Press, 2011 – ISBN: 9781555707453 Mostly Manga: A Genre Guide to Popular Manga, Manhwa, Manhua, and Anime by Elizabeth F. S. Kalen, Genreflecting Advisory Series by Libraries Unlimited, 2012 – ISBN: 9781598849387