In English the word "manga" is used to refer to Japanese comics. I would like to know if this word is similar to "anime", where westerns use it only for "Japanese" animation (in a broad sense since several "Japanese" animations are produced in Japan but animated on Korea or other country) or does it mean comics in general? Is a fanfic japanese comic a "manga" or does it have to be paid and officially released to be "manga"?
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漫画/マンガ in Japanese is close to comic in English. It's a generic term that safely includes, for example, Peanuts and Spider-Man. It doesn't have to be released commercially, and even a 10-year-old boy can draw 漫画. It usually consists of many pages and frames (コマ), but when a picture has a balloon and a "story", people sometimes call it a (1コマ)漫画.
アニメ also is a word that includes foreign cartoons such as Disney's movies.
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Very interesting how the word アニメ includes any cartoon then in other cultures refers to japanese cartoons because the word itself is japanese. I think it's the same with 刀 and other words about swords. I'll do a topic about it if there isn't any yet.– DestalCommented Apr 1, 2017 at 23:02
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No, no, no, clearly manga is the feminine form of mango. So it must be a fruit.
</badum_tish>Commented Mar 7, 2020 at 19:43
Manga has a much broader meaning traditionally. For example, every year Hokusai, the Japanese artist, would create a sketch book of drawings in response to his students constant question of “what should we be drawing?”. I have that multi-volume set at home. Hokusai drew every aspect of Japanese culture and society of his day as well as imaginary creatures. Not a comic book at all.
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Are you talking about [ this sketchbook called 北斎漫画](ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%96%8E%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB).? I think normally manga contains more plot than mere sketchbook. Commented Mar 8, 2020 at 11:05
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@kimi Tanaka - there are two meanings of 漫画 in Japanese dictionaries– user36788Commented Mar 8, 2020 at 12:21