A Brief History of Japanese Manga
The history of Japanese Manga can be traced back to the 12th Century. The reading style of Manga is often right to left. I would however like to tell the story of Manga as we see today. The World War II had just ended and Japan was reeling under the shear burden of lifting a society that was economically, socially and mentally devastated. The insignificance of human life was clearly visible due to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was at this time that Osama Tezuka, who can be called as the Godfather of Modern Japanese Manga and Anime brought about 112 chapters of a powerful android created by the head of the Ministry of Science, Doctor Tenma. Dr. Tenma created Astro to replace his son Tobio, who died in a self-driving car accident. He built and adopted Astro in Tobio's memory and treated Astro as lovingly as if he was the real Tobio. This was the birth of the Anime “ Astro boy ”. This story has a connection with the Japanese people as most of the populatio...