What this genre is
Full-colour vertical-scroll comics, born in Korea and built for the phone. Through Piccoma and LINE Manga they grew fast in Japan too, and now compete and blend with panel-layout culture.
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
A boy climbing a tower to have his wish granted. A worldwide hit Korean webtoon, and the work that spread vertical scrolling globally.
A young man not in work or education takes a pill and returns to high school to do it again. An early hit from the vertical-scroll full-colour apps.
A Korean webtoon in which the weakest hunter levels up alone. A huge hit that stands for vertical-scroll full colour opening up the Japanese market.
The love life and self-acceptance of a girl who becomes a goddess through makeup. A representative hit of the vertical-scroll shojo manga.
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（you are here）↓
- 2016 SNS Manga
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.