The Implication of Manga(japanease animation) to Teenagers

Awareness for advantage, It educate their mind & must be told what is right & wrong. Proper Guidance of the parents how to handle it. Disadvantage maybe addicting to it may affect their daily life if not control on teenager or young age.

I am also surprised by how much the manga industry has grown over the years. I remember how hard and rare it was to find them back in the days. The bookstores only carried around 20 or so titles at the time. But one of the above users is kind of right too, the industry in the US has slowed down a bit over the last few years. I guess an advantage for teenagers is that they are being exposed to new things. Unlike the American comic books with the superheroes and such manga can deal with general everyday things that we can relate to. Another positive thing is that it the teens become more interested in the japanese culture through manga. It's the same with the korean manhwa too. The only disadvantage I can think of is the spending cost since they aren't that cheap. I don't really think that manga has affected my daily life in any major way. Unless you count me dishing out some money every so often to purchase them.

Actually manga's popularity is decreasing in the US, but that is just a natural decrease after the huge boom it experienced, plus economical issues. I think teenagers reading manga is fantastic. Let's stop and think about this, people reading = good. As there are many celebrating that kids read tripe like Twilight, because they are reading (which I agree, reading no matter what is fantastic) then reading manga is also great. Since manga covers so many genres there is no limit to what someone can find and explore. And the dedication to reading can lead to other things, I know I grew up reading comic books when I was a kid, and found my love for reading that way. I still read and enjoy comics and manga for that matter, but I also love and read full length novels and non-fiction. As for the last question, manga doesn't affect my daily life. I read it sporadicly as there being so much I search hard for the one series that will hook me. Since each book is about 10 bucks (though they are around the same size as a novel) and there will likely be a dozen books in the series, I am a bit picky. They are great to read and not all of them are aimed at teenagers or kids, there are ones focused solely on adults as well.

The effect is that, most teenagers look like cartoon characters based on how they dress up, hair style, and face make up. I hope they wont talk, act and think exactly like the cartoon characters does.

Nothings wrong with them implicitly. They are after all just comics. But comics, much like any form of media rubs off its ideas on its readers. From an artistic standpoint I think kids drawing styles, which should be in constant flux as their growing up, gets cramped and limited. People who draw anime styled characters tend to (For the most part) have a very generic look about them. people I know who draw it never branch out into other styles (At least not for a while anyway.) So I think the saturation of this single styled artform isn't to great creatively. Also I find the philosophies of the writers a little odd. Of course this is because most of them grew up with different myths, legends and world views from me, your average western kid. I think this clash of world views will have some interesting side effects later. Nothing dramatic, but something interesting. Whether good or bad.