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v1cious
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between a manga and a graphic novel?
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lianncoop
Past ANN Contributor
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Manga just means...a japanese comic.
Graphic novels are...a narrative told through comic book form, usually with a political or current event as its core. Or more like a stand-alone story that's a spinoff from an original series, like any of the Batman uhh...Dark Knight books or the Daredevil graphic novels. But, I think now rather than separating all the different categories up, especially in libraries and bookstores, anything in the "story told through pictures" format is clumped together as a graphic novel. |
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
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Yup, what Liann said.
Sometimes it can also be a compilation of smaller manga volumes. Usually in the US (or at least a few years ago), manga are released in either individual volumes (comic book sized) or graphic novel format. A graphic novel combines several of those smaller volumes into one book. The same goes for Japan, really. If you have a manga series being released in the newspaper at 4 panels a week or something, they could later compile them into a book and market it as a graphic novel. |
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