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8-28-2007 @ 2:46PM

uberartist said...

@9 To be fully correct, the Chinese and Korean names for manga are only different so they can be "nicely" translated into the local language. You could technically get closer in Chinese, but "hua" means "paint" so it's used instead.

I think to say that manga is exclusively Japanese is not correct. In english, they are all manga, and if you want to get more specific then you can say Japanese manga, or Chinese manga, but it should be used the same way as you use the word "comic". You can say American comic or European comic, but in the end they are all comics. Just as all manga is manga, in it's pure definition. It is not bound to a specific nationality, even if it originated there.

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