What this genre is
A Crocodile That Lives 100 Days, born on Twitter, became a social phenomenon. Short one-to-four-page pieces made for sharing, and an unusually short distance between artist and reader.
Digital & New Currents — about this band: The shapes manga takes once the web, the smartphone and social media arrive.
Connections
Three kinds of line: direct evolution, influence, and born in reaction against.
↓ Flowed into this
Key works
The awkward adult romance of two otaku. A Reiwa romantic comedy that started on pixiv, went round on social media and was then published.
A hundred-day countdown to a death, posted one page a day. An experiment in which the publishing format itself — social media — became part of the story.
Digital & New Currents — walk the band
Genres in the same band, in order of year. You are at the highlighted one.
- 2005 Web Comics↓
- 2014 Webtoon↓
- 2016 SNS Manga（you are here）
All genres
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.