{"id":9470,"date":"2005-11-08T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/08\/manga-goes-mainstream\/"},"modified":"2005-11-08T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T15:14:00","slug":"manga-goes-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/manga-goes-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga Goes Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press has published an <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/J\/JAPAN_SUNDAY_COMICS?SITE=PASTR&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> discussing the adoption of &#8220;manga&#8221; into American publishing. The article reports that several newspapers owned by the Universal Press Syndicate, including the Los Angeles Times, Denver Post, Vancouver Sun and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, will begin publishing TOKYOPOP&#8217;s original American manga-style comics Van Von Hunter and Peach Fuzz in their Sunday comics sections in an attempt to attract a younger readership.<\/p>\n<p>The article explains that, &#8220;Manga is more a storytelling style than a genre&#8230; Manga tales also tend to be more psychological and less action-oriented than its U.S. counterparts, such as Marvel&#8217;s superhero comics.&#8221; The article cites examples of &#8220;manga&#8221; creeping into American culture such as Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew &#8220;manga&#8221; adaptations by New York based publisher Papercutz, and CosmoGirl Magazine publishing one of TOKYOPOP&#8217;s original American &#8220;manga.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press has published an article discussing the adoption of &#8220;manga&#8221; into American publishing. The article reports that several newspapers owned by the Universal Press Syndicate, including the Los Angeles Times, Denver Post, Vancouver Sun and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, will begin publishing TOKYOPOP&#8217;s original American manga-style comics Van Von Hunter and Peach Fuzz in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}