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If this sounds boastful, please note that authors don't write book blurbs, publishers do! Also, it's important to point out that except for the new foreword by me and the slightly different covers, the 1998 editions are identical in content to the original 1983 one. The reasons for keeping the book in this pristine state are given in the 1998 foreword, and include the fact that, my 1996 book on manga, covers much of the newer developments in the industry, up to 1996. Has gone out of stock many times in the past, and I was therefore extremely grateful for the publisher's decision to reprint it in 1998. Kodansha International's Michael Brase was particularly supportive in this regard and thus accrues eternal good karma. Kodansha International, affectionately known as K.I., was a subsidiary of Kodansha Ltd, one of the largest publishers in Japan. Gem ws1 keyboard workstation manual download. It specialized in high quality English books about Japan, and its books helped greatly to increase knowledge of Japanese culture overseas.

Unfortunately, in April, 2011, Kodansha International was closed by its parent company. This was truly a shock to the publishing industry in Japan, and, frankly, a tragic loss to Japan itself, especially given the role that the company played in helping to raise awareness of many fascinating aspects of Japanese culture among overseas audiences. I often wonder, given the Japanese government's emphasis today on promoting Japanese culture—especially 'Cool Japan'— if they really understood what the loss of Kodansha International meant. But I digress. While scores of wonderful books disappeared from circulation (to the eternal grief of their authors), Manga!

It was picked up by, the New York-based arm of the parent company, Kodansha Ltd., and thus still remains in print today, over thirty years after it's initial publication. For those not familiar with the publishing world, most books are probably shredded by their publishers only a few years after they appear, so this makes Manga! Quite a rarity. W hen I wrote Manga! I never dreamed how popular manga would become outside of Japan. Today, I enjoy thinking now that my book has played a little role in manga's success. Certainly, it has never sold that many copies, but it has developed something of a cult following among manga aficionados around the world.

Amazingly, in the 1990s there was even a Japanese bistro in Berkeley, California, named after Manga! Manga!, where you could read manga while munching on sushi. Just like in Japan! In 1998, the anime/manga fan magazine, Manga Mania, described Manga! As ' the book that just about every undergraduate and journalist in the country is ripping off,' in a review stating that 'After fifteen years of being plagiarised by lesser writers, Schodt's book is still effortlessly outshining them all.'

There may have been a little hyperbole at work in the prose, but a decade later, in 2008, on the website, Johanna Draper Carlson would describe it as a 'foundational must-read.' More recently, In December, 2014, Ash Brown would describe it on the wonderful blog,, as, 'a fantastic work. Even decades after it was first published it remains an informative and valuable study. Manga! is very highly recommended to anyone interested in learning more about manga, its history, its creators, or the manga industry as a whole.' Partly because manga were so unknown outside of Japan in 1983, when the book came out it was more widely reviewed and mentioned than anything I have written subsequently. In retrospect, 1983 may also have been a sort of 'golden age' of traditional publishing, because there were still many magazines and newspapers that regularly ran reviews of books, and physical books probably played a larger role in society than they do today, when we are so drowning in free information from the web. Here some comments from the early days, circa 1983.