First, I want to say that I read both comics and manga. More comics and less manga, actually. Why? Because you can find more quality comics than quality manga. While currently I am reading just two manga series (Berserk and Naruto) because is hard for me to find a manga that I can enjoy, although I will soon start to read Blade of the Immortal and Old Boy. I want to say that I do not read scans but only printed stuff that I buy on the internet (supporting the …

█ This article begins a series of many about the manga and anime industry in Japan, the mechanisms of this industry, the people who work in this domain and the publishers they work for. I hope you find it interesting. To begin with, manga industry differs a lot from the comics industry. In USA, the characters become the property of the publishing company after the author signs the…