What this genre is
Street-corner picture-card theatre was a major entertainment for children before and after the war. Shigeru Mizuki, Sanpei Shirato and other future masters of gekiga and horror sharpened their storytelling craft here.
Roots — about this band: From Edo caricature to Tezuka. Where all of it begins.
Connections
Three kinds of line: direct evolution, influence, and born in reaction against.
↑ Grew out of this
Key works
No key works recorded here yet.
Roots — walk the band
Genres in the same band, in order of year. You are at the highlighted one.
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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.