Behind Every Great Manga: The Rising Popularity of Japanese Light Novels.

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    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on the popularity of Japanese light novels. Topics include the growing interest of Western in manga, origin of light novels from the serialized stories in Japanese pulp magazines of the 1970s, and similarity of the market share of the light novels in Japan and comic books in the U.S.