Europe has caught the bug, too. In the United Kingdom, the Catholic Church is using manga to recruit new priests. One British publisher, in an effort to hippify a national franchise, has begun issuing manga versions of Shakespeare's plays, including a Romeo and Juliet that reimagines the Montagues and Capulets as rival yakuza families in Tokyo.
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Manga sales in the US have tripled in the past four years.
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Circulation of the country's weekly comic magazines, the essential entry point for any manga series, has fallen by about half over the last decade.
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