Manga

Family

illustrative

Line behavior

expressive black-and-white line drawing carries the narrative rather than text

Visual traits

expressive line drawing; symbols; visual development of character; manpu symbols such as spirals conveying speed or dizziness; onomatopoeia drawn into the composition as part of the image

Conflicts or cautions

industry usage frequently conflates 'manga' and 'anime'; this corpus keeps them unmerged because no fetched source equates them. The tattoo application of the cited curatorial description is INFERENCE - the source describes printed manga, not tattoos.

Composition tendencies

INFERENCE: panel composition is a page device in the cited source; its transfer to skin is not sourced here

• From the Curator: Manga at the British Museum (e-magazine issue 26) (opens in a new tab)

  Tier 1

  Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures / British Museum

  The exhibition's curator describes manga's visual language: narrative carried by expressive line drawing, symbols, composition of panels and the visual development of character rather than by text; sound effects including onomatopoeia and imagined sounds drawn into the page composition as part of the image; and manpu symbols such as spirals conveying speed or dizziness. Gives the Citi exhibition dates 23 May - 26 August 2019, about 50 artists, 70 titles, 160 works. Makes no claim about tattooing.

  cultural institution · published 2019-05 · retrieved 2026-08-28

No relationship in the corpus touches Manga. The graph is sparse; the type listings carry browsing.