"Mangas that Sell, Mangas that are Memorable"

"Mangas that Sell, Mangas that are Memorable" was published on February 16th by MEDIA FACTORY and was written by Mr. Yoshihiro Yonezawa, the founder of the comike (comic market) who passed away last December. The book is a compilation of all the pieces written for the column series titled "Yoshihiro Yonezawa's Commentary on Contemporary Mangas," which ran in the manga magazine "Monthly Comic Flapper" (MEDIA FACTORY) for seven years until October 2006.

Beginning with a first chapter that covers a collection of his essays that ran between December 2000 and 2001 and concluding with one that ran in 2006, the book contains six chapters that serve as a record of Mr. Yonezawa's views, such as "The Cyclical Theory of Genres," "What Makes Mangas Sell," "The Differences Between the Otakus of the Present and the Otakus of the Past."

The monthly essays cover many interesting topics, as a cursory glance at just their titles reveals. Such titles include "The New Century and The New Magazine," "The Advance of Korean Magazines into Japan," "The Manga, The Times, and Kodansha," "The Manga and the Verdict of the Shobunkan Trial," "The Revival of the Gang Manga is Nigh," and "The Approximation of the Times and the Manga."

This is valuable material that helps you understand the emergence of commercial manga and comike trends since 2000 and the topics and issues surrounding them.



*Some of the book titles are tentative translations.
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