![]() At present, story-manga form the main subject of studies on manga as can be inferred from the body of publications available in Japanese. Such publications include explorations of the development of story-manga in the postwar period (especially from the perspective of mass-media, youth culture and manga literacy), inquiries into the history of manga criticism and research 4, and also investigations into the specific language – or “expression” – of manga 5. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Yonezawa Yoshihiro, Murakami Tomohiko, Takeuchi Osamu and other critics who had been nurtured by story-manga claimed a legitimate status for this medium in two ways: on the one hand, they had to strengthen manga’s position against “high” culture, and on the other hand, they were bent on promoting story-manga against traditional forms of manga. ![]()
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