The phenomenon Manga

Hi Everybody!
I (Katia) am going to introduce you to the french manga phenomenon.

These last years the japanese mangas have been expending in France ,the phenomenon began on tv.

MANGA ON TV:
On tv there are many kinds of Mangas which are broadcast.
The first is the "children Manga" . the ones which are braodcat are :
"Oliver & Tom" ,"Sakura" ,"Pokemon" ,"Digimon' ,"DragonBall" ,"Detective Conan" ,"Yu-Gi-Oh (which is also named GX) ,"Sailor Moon" ,"Gate Keepers" ,"Astro Boy" & 'Saint Seya" etc....
The second kind of Mangas which are broadcat is the "all public" one (starting with teens) .
Those Mangas are :
"Naruto" ,"NaNa" ,"GTO (means: great teacher onizuka)", "Beck" ,"Monster" ,"Fullmetal Alchemsit" ,"Tenjho Tenge" & more ....

Then we started finding "Manga playing cards" in all supermarkets and toy stores .
There are many shops specialised in Mangas .In those shops people sell Mangas, Anime DVD(the tv adaptation of mangas) ,Cds , Goodies ,scholar manga products (like school bags,pencils or notebooks etc..
example of these shops : KONCI

There are also Manga libraries where you can read Mangas,surf on the internet, play video games , eat and drink (sodas are free)
for example in "Manga Café"
















There are many Manga events which are or have been organised : Expos(Manga Expo , Japan Expo ,Paris Manga etc ....)
or concerts Like : Nana Kitade's















or olivia's




There are many styles which have been introduced in France thanks to the Manga phenomenon :
The J-pop style or
Harajuku style














My favourites Manga are:

Great Teacher Onizuka ,
It is the story of an ex rebel of 22 years old
who decided to become a teacher to find a 16 years old girlfriend XD).
That Manga is cool and fun I think you'll enjoy it!

Fullmetal alchemist,
This story is about alchemy and brotheship ,
two brothers have lost their members (trying to upraise their mother)
so the are looking for the "philosopher stone" to take their members back
(one of the brothers is a soul fixed in an armour).


Nana
This manga is about two different 20years old girls,
who'll live together and become really good friends.
One of them is ingeniousness and the other one is independant & lives for music .


Naruto (if the pic is not really good it's because this is one of my drawings)
That one is a young ninja.
There are 2 Naruto generations: in the 1st one he's got 13years old ,
He's following his biggest dream (that is to become the best ninja of his village named konoha).
In the second one he comes back from a 3 years formation and he'll fight a organisation of evil ninjas named Akatsuki.

I'll finish with that one because it would bee too long to tell the story of all the Mangas I like
so the last one I'll introduce you to is Tenjho Tenge

TENJHO TENGE utilizes the standard elements of popular shounen (boy's show) series: martial combat and ecchi (sexy things). Souichiro and Bob arrive as new students to Toudou Academy, believing they will quickly become the most popular guys around because of their superior fighting skills. Little do they realize that, unlike their previous school, Toudou is filled with excellent fighters, especially a group of girls eager to trounce the newcomers in order to teach them some respect.
soon they'll be admited to the juken club led by Maya Natsume (a martial combat champion) in which there are Aya (Maya's sister and my favourite character -in the anime she seems stupid but she is not in the original manga-)and Masataka a young man(who is in love with Aya).