# Episode 620 - The Manga Revolution, Part 2

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Podcast: [History of Japan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-japan-1062379)
Published: 2026-03-20T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Histories of manga tend to skip from the colorful woodblocks of the Edo period directly to the post-WWII industry we'd recognize today. But what do we lose when we do that? And what do we gain when we do investigate the century or so that lies between those two moments? Show notes here .

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