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Episode 619 - The Manga Revolution, Part 1
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- History of Japan
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- Mar 13, 2026
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- 2034
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Summary
This week: manga is today one of the most ubiquitous forms of entertainment in Japan. But the idea of comics as we might understand them has a much longer history. So how did we get from there to here--what, in other words, is the origin of Japanese manga/ We'll look today at the earliest known examples as we try to understand the origins of manga as a form. Show notes here .