Dramatic comics

Japanese: 劇画 - げきが
Dramatic comics
It refers to manga that emphasizes realistic drama rather than simple humor, but the definition is still vague. Around 1955, Matsumoto Masahiko and Tatsumi Yoshihiro, the leading artists of rental manga in Osaka, called their own manga komaga and gekiga to distinguish them from existing manga. The term gekiga first appeared in manga magazines in issue 16 of Kage, a rental manga short story collection published in Osaka in 1958. The drawing style focused on drama rather than humor, and as stated in the gekiga declaration of the Gekiga Kobo group that Tatsumi and others formed in 1959, they aimed to be "entertaining reading material for the transitional period from childhood to adulthood." The term gekiga became more common with Sanpei Shirato's Ninja Bugeicho (1959-62, 17 volumes), the founding of Garo (64), which was billed as a gekiga magazine, and the appearance of Mizuki Shigeru, Tsuge Yoshiharu, and others. Many manga artists, such as Saito Takao, Mizushima Shinji, and Sato Masaaki, started out as manga artists.

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Japanese:
漫画のうち,単なるおかしみでなく,現実的なドラマの展開を強調するものをいうが,定義はまだ曖昧。 1955年頃,大阪の貸本漫画の主力画家であった松本正彦と辰巳ヨシヒロたちが,既存の漫画と区別するため自作の漫画を駒画,劇画と称していた。また劇画という名称が漫画紙上に登場したのは,58年に大阪で発行された貸本用漫画短編集『影』 16号が最初とされる。笑いよりもドラマを中心とした描法で,辰巳らが同人となって 59年にスタートした「劇画工房」の劇画宣言にあるように,「子供から大人になる過渡期の娯楽読物」を目指した。白土三平の『忍者武芸帳』 (1959~62,17巻) ,劇画雑誌と銘打った『ガロ』 (64) の創刊,さらに水木しげる,つげ義春らの登場によって劇画の名は一般化した。さいとう・たかを,水島新司,佐藤まさあきなど,劇画家として出発した漫画家は多い。

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