What this genre is
ONE's One Punch Man, which began on a personal website, is the emblem. A place to publish without a publisher became an entrance for talent, and official web magazines such as Ura Sunday followed.
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.
↑ Grew out of this
Key works
The troubles of a hero who can beat any enemy in one punch. From a personal website to a social phenomenon — the emblem of web-born manga.
A young calligrapher moves to the Goto Islands after failing in the city, and life among the islanders. A regional hit that began as a web serial.
The growth of Mob, an unremarkable boy with enormous psychic power. A popular web-born work by ONE, the author of One Punch Man.
Koichi Asakura, a designer at an ad agency, and Ellen Yamagishi, a genius painter. Written for everyone who did not turn out to be a genius, it follows people making peace with envy and carrying on working — a web-born ensemble piece about creators.
A spy, a telepath and an assassin play at being a family. A web serial that became an enormous hit across every age group.
A middle-aged man who gains the power of a kaiju fights in the defence force. A new-generation hit, popular at home and abroad at once, from a web serial.
A youth battle manga where the occult and aliens collide. Overwhelming drawing and pace made it a much-discussed web-born hit.
Digital & New Currents — walk the band
Genres in the same band, in order of year. You are at the highlighted one.
- 2005 Web Comics（you are here）↓
- 2014 Webtoon↓
- 2016 SNS Manga
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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.