Gekiga (劇画, lit. 'dramatic pictures') is a style of Japanese comics aimed at adult audiences and marked by a more cinematic art style and more mature themes...

Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler, originally titled Gekiga Hitler (劇画ヒットラー, Gekiga Hittorā), is a manga by Shigeru Mizuki about the life of Adolf Hitler. In 1971...

the concept of gekiga, which sought to use manga to tell serious and grounded stories aimed at adult audiences. By the late 1960s gekiga was a mainstream...

genre known as ero-gekiga, where gekiga was taken, and the sexual and violent content was intensified. Other well-known "ero-gekiga" magazines were Erogenica...

continued through the rest of his life. He is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative manga in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in...

boys Shōjo manga: intended for girls Josei manga: intended for adult women Gekiga: a type of manga that was popular among male workers in the 1960's and 70's...

Fallen Words (劇画寄席 芝浜, Gekiga Yose: Shibahama) is a collection of rakugo short stories by manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. The manga was published on July...

As gekiga gained popularity, the lending libraries gradually collapsed due to the growing economy of Japan during the 1960s. As a result, many gekiga artists...

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her generation. She later became a pioneer in manga for adults, producing gekiga and redikomi towards the end of that decade. She is the widow of manga artist...

Japanese manga artist, although he rejected the term and considered his work gekiga. He was best known for Golgo 13, which has been serialized in Big Comic...

commonplace in manga. Gekiga literally translates to "dramatic pictures" and refers to a form of aesthetic realism in manga. Gekiga-style storytelling tends...

animations, it also blurs the significant influence of his later, more literary, gekiga works. Tezuka began what was known as the manga revolution in Japan with...

the dominant style in seinen (marketed to men) and pornographic manga was gekiga, characterized by realism, sharp angles, dark hatching, and gritty linework...

considered a bill to restrict minors' access to such content.[needs update] The gekiga style of storytelling—thematically somber, adult-oriented, and sometimes...

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market diversified, sex spread beyond the gekiga to just about every conceivable niche in the marketplace. The gekiga continued their realistic and often violent...

the manga of Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Takao Saito, was the catalyst of the gekiga movement. Matsumoto was born in 1934 in Osaka, Japan. Growing up, his father...

tankōbon volumes, but was republished as 10 wide-ban volumes.[citation needed] Gekiga Omnibus edition Trade paperback List of best-selling manga Jason Yadao....

style of manga to him. Initially, the series achieved little success as gekiga was well-known at the time, and only became a hit after its adaptation into...

portal Artist's book Collage novel Comic album, European publishing format Gekiga, Japanese term for/style of more mature comics Graphic narrative Graphic...

Belladonna of Sadness (1973). In addition, known as mockbusters, Maruhi Gekiga, Ukiyoe Senichiya (1969), and Do It! Yasuji's Pornorama (1971) released...

being renamed again to GeGeGe no Kitarō in 1967. In 1972 he publishes the gekiga graphic novel NonNonBa [ja] about his childhood friendship with old maid...

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Prince Ganma (whose alter ego was a street urchin) and the popular genre of gekiga or "drama pictures". Many prolific manga artists, like Shigeru Mizuki and...

February 2017) was a Japanese manga writer/artist. His works belong to the gekiga, or "dramatic pictures", genre of manga. In France he was knighted a Chevalier...

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his helper and acts as her "guardian". Midori (地下幻燈劇画 少女椿, Chika Gentō Gekiga: Shōjo Tsubaki, roughly "Underground Projected Dramatic Pictures: The Camellia...

subgenre of dating sims targeted towards a male audience.[citation needed] gekiga (劇画, "dramatic pictures"): A term adopted by more serious Japanese cartoonists...

concept of gekiga (劇画) emerged in the late 1950s, which sought to use manga to tell serious and grounded stories aimed at adult audiences. Gekiga inspired...