Manga: Medium, Kunst und Material

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Manga encompasses various aspects: it serves as a culture industry and a component of the 'media mix,' acts as a tool for 'Cool Japan' campaigns by the Japanese state, represents a visual language for a global fan culture, and provides a source of cute characters. Importantly, manga also consists of comics, primarily serial graphic narratives, where the media specificity influences the representational capacities that interest historians and gender studies scholars. This volume compiles German and English-language essays from a decade of manga studies, derived from book chapters and conference papers in non-comics-specific contexts. The essays do not merely utilize manga as cultural or Japan-related material; instead, they critically examine the aesthetic and cultural conditions and discourses relevant to such usage. Here, the focus is squarely on manga itself.