Giga Town: A Guide to Manga Iconography
Fumiyo Kouno, illustrated by Fumiyo Kouno
This visual guide explains manga symbols, known in Japanese as manpu. It explores expressive marks such as sweat drops, bulging veins, and puffs of smoke, which convey feelings or actions in manga and Japanese children’s cartoons. A pictorial contents page directs readers to detailed entries, with cartoon-strip examples illustrating a wide range of symbols. Black-and-white illustrations add a gently humorous visual approach to this guide to manga’s symbolic language.
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