Sep 19, 2010

Culture Moment: Manga

 Generally speaking, manga is a comic - a non-animated cartoon in Japanese style, printed in book form. Manga originated in Japan and Japanese manga is read all over the world. In Japan alone 120 million manga books are purchased each month.
Manga has a strong influence on the world's pop culture. It also has a wide variety of genres, from children's stories, action-adventure, romance, historical drama, pornographic, fiction,....etc. 

Neither Seth nor I are big Manga readers, but there is one we are particularly found of:
Manga Messiah
This is a 4 book series of the Gospel/Bible stories in Manga form.
We have shared the book with people at church before, and sometimes have it available in our church bookstore/library. It seems to be a good tool for Manga readers to learn the basics of the Bible! (We hear you can find it in America if you're interested!)

Click this link to see an excerpt from Manga Messiah .

Pictures from Manga Messiah
Turning water into wine


The Twelve Disciples

4 comments:

  1. You know its so very beautiful!!!!!!!!!
    And i always read the book of mangga messiah!!!!!!!!

    :)

    GOD BLESS..................

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  2. waahhhhh que emocioooon me gusta muchooooo
    kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa >w< jejeje
    yo tambien hare manga cristiano!!
    contactenme a: filadelfia_70@hotmail.com

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  3. i love this book! so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!11 totally changed my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  4. THIS BOOK IS THE BEST!! I MEAN WHAT COULD EVER TOP THIS? ASIDE FROM THE HANDSOME CHARACTERS, HUNKY BOYS, MIRACULOUS GOD. THIS IS THE BEST IDEA YET! TURNING THE BIBLIATIC TEXT TO MANGA REALLY CAUGHT THE YOUNGSTERS EYES! HOPE TO SEE MORE OF THIS BEAUTIFUL SERIES!

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