Let's Manga

Trim size is an example of a paratext. The paratext, according to Gérard Genette, is “…a certain number of verbal or other productions [that] surround [the text] and extend it, precisely in order to present it, in the usual sense of this verb but also in the strongest sense: to make present, to ensure the text’s presence in the world, it’s ‘reception’ and consumption in the form (nowadays at least) of a book.” True to form, the so-called Tokyopop size has become associated with manga as a whole and facilitated the creation of a new category of books called “manga.”

The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum is scheduled to open Sept. 3, 2011, in Kawasaki, the city where he spent more than three decades until his death in 1996