WHY DOES DIVERSITY IN MANGA MATTER?
I first got into Japanese pop culture and anime in the late 1970s with STAR BLAZERS (the American version of Japan’s iconic SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO). Instantly, I knew that the art style, character design, and mature stories were LIGHT-YEARS beyond the American Saturday-morning cartoons I was watching. In the ’80’s, my love of this material extended to GUNDAM model kits, copies of the Japanese weekly SHŌNEN JUMP manga magazine (courtesy of a Japanese American family friend), and ROBOTECH. The last one (primarily based on the legendary Japanese anime SUPER DIMENSION FORTRESS MACROSS) cemented my lifelong fascination ...
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