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Understanding Manga
Way faster than your printed textbook but still slower than a cinema movie, manga, or
graphic novel by English terminology, a independent style of comics drawn by Japanese Artist,
or mangaka, have become a popular form of entertainment and inspiration not just for kids, but
reader at all ages like novels in the world. By using drawings of actions moments with thoughts
and conversations placed in bubbles, manga have made drawing art from just a visual medicine
to be capable of expressing more of our living experiences like sound and touch, motions, time,
space, emotions, thinking and imagination. Flip your eyes and mind through 500 mangas series
drawn by 300 authors, you will literally live in and feel 300 different worlds with the different
drawing styles, storytelling and rhythm, transition, irony and sense of humor, the logic between
panel and background special effects. While America comics focus on story about hero to create
role model for children with the mindset of good and evil, Japan manga stories connect
ourselves to almost every aspect of human life experiences, imaginations, interests and social
issue. The topics that may seem familiar with everyone, if they usually watch movies, are
actions, romance, fantasy, adventure, supernatural and martial arts. There are manga about
many sports, from the most popular like soccer, basketball, baseball, tennis to ice hockey, ski-
jumping, fencing and gymnastic, manga about cooking, doctors, and teachers. The variety of
personality of manga character is enormous based on artist imaginations. A person skill,
mindset and perception develop in the whole story along with people he meet, either friend or
foe, and his relationships and experiences with them. In manga, one character’s inspiring act
can make his enemy today become his friends tomorrow. And either through his friends and
experiences, he learned the necessary life lessons to become stronger physically, mentally and
emotionally. While many manga are based on total fiction and imagination, many manga artist
have successfully combine scientific theory, philosophy and creativity to explain and create the
system of supernatural abilities and martial arts in their worked. Hot social issue in human
history like war, love, freedom, destiny, ethics, happiness, social relationships and leadership
are presented in every good manga. Yeah I am talking about the good one. Based on own past
and personality, we readers will have different thoughts and feelings about the characters and
the stories we read. Most people tend to think the manga world are all about dreamers who
escape the reality. Well, won’t try to deny it but it is not the fault of manga and the people who
create it. It is the same with game. It is our fault, readers, who doesn’t know what good can we
learn from manga and game to make our real life better. Believe me, if you jump into those
page and become the characters in it, you may see more magic and inspiration there, but the
pain you suffer in your journey are much more terrify than in your real life. The real deal here is
we must analyze, research and compare to know how reality is the same and different from
manga to make the best use of it. What make manga interesting and educational is it let us see
the way a person do his work and his career like treating customers and patients, playing a
sport, a game, cooking a meal or acting on stage reflect that person’s mind, spirit, perception
and attitude toward his works, thus create different results and level of success. By reading
manga, we understand our perception, our mental and emotional stage and our spirit, not just
our knowledge, have a huge influence on our reality. Movies do the same thing but at fast pace
while in manga, a person or a scene “moments” are captured (don’t have to use rewind and
pause on the DVD to scratch it) ideally while still let us feel actions and time by using motions
special effect. The solution shouldn’t be escaping reality and run into the virtual world, but not
reject it either, we have to find ways to use and apply their positive influence into our real life.
If we ourselves are already weak mentally, even if we don’t read manga or play games, our life
wouldn’t be any good, I think, or even worse, if you run into suicide, drugs and cocaine. Our life
is our responsibility anyway. Have a good night and if you have some spare time, read some…
manga, thnks ^.^
Le Duc Thuan
