Art

Exhibition of the week Manga The British Museum, London WC1 (020-7323 8000, britishmuseum.org). Until 26 August Loosely translated as “rambling pictures”, manga is the Japanese variant of the comic book – and in its home country, it is a cultural phenomenon, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. Containing stories about almost every subject imaginable, manga comics are printed by the million and read by children, “salarymen”, “air hostesses” and “90-year-old bonsai masters” alike. “Classless, ageless, infinitely varied”, manga is less a genre than “a cultural glue that holds Japan together” – and its reach is no longer confined to its country of origin. In recent years, this local obsession has turned into a global “tsunami”, its influence creeping into everything from “cinema, advertising [and] toys” to “television, video games, rap music,…

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