Contemporary Manga:
In Japan, Tezuka had so much influence that the Japanese comic drawing style is a characteristic way different from the Western. Although the word manga in Japan is almost equivalent to "comic" (if only because there is almost no other comics on sale in Japan than Japanese), it is true that in the rest of the world the word manga really exclusive to the Japanese comic drawing style is used.
Within the Japanese manga culture has a more important position than strips within Western culture. Manga is respected as an art form or a form of popular literature. It is not like in the West, mainly for children. The offer is huge, around the turn of the century offered bookstores in larger cities like Tokyo or Osaka normally entire walls full of new or secondhand manga pockets for sale.
Partly due (mainly children) series on television and dissemination on the Internet, the Japanese comic after 2000 gradually popular in the West. It is striking that most of the manga, which will be released in Europe, conceptually and stylistically relatively strong homogeneous failure: the style and subjects often differ only in details. A successful title is therefore often dozens 'cloned' followers within the same subgenre.
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