What this genre is
Osomatsu-kun and Genius Bakabon. Fujio Akatsuka systematised character-driven gag manga; his catchphrase that this is fine, as it is, was gag manga's declaration of independence.
Gag & Comedy — about this band: The lineage of laughter Akatsuka Fujio systematised — nonsense, absurdism, and the slice-of-life that followed.
Connections
Three kinds of line: direct evolution, influence, and born in reaction against.
↓ Flowed into this
↑ Grew out of this
Key works
A classic of gag manga, with sextuplets, Iyami and Chibita running riot. Its catchphrase entered the language, and it established the character-driven gag.
Akko, a girl who can become anything through her mirror. One of the ancestors of the magical-girl form, and Akatsuka's hit in a girls' magazine.
This is fine, as it is. The destructive nonsense of Bakabon's papa, and the representative work of Akatsuka's comedy, familiar across generations.
Gag & Comedy — walk the band
Genres in the same band, in order of year. You are at the highlighted one.
- 1962 Akatsuka Gag（you are here）↓
- 1970 Nonsense & Parody↓
- 1980 Yonkoma↓
- 1988 Absurdist Gag↓
- 2002 Slice-of-Life Yonkoma
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About this entry
Genre boundaries are drawn where the network of manga happens to concentrate, not by decree. Years are approximate. Where opinions differ, this page says so rather than picking a winner.