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trivia[0]='Manga comes from "man" and "ga" and means crazy sketches or irresponsible pictures.'

trivia[1]='Amazingly, Manga makes up 40% of all publications sold in Japan.'

trivia[2]='The word Manga is now in the English dictionary and means Japanese comics (the word for Japanese animation is "anime").'

trivia[3]='The biggest selling Manga weekly of all time was Shonen Jump, home of Dragonball. In only one week it sold over 6 million copies!'

trivia[4]='Manga are the sources for a huge number of hit films, videos and TV shows, both live action and animated.'

trivia[5]='Rubbery boy-pirate One Piece set the record for the highest first print run of a manga book at 2.52 million copies.'

trivia[6]='Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy, created over 150,000 pages and is revered in Japan as "the God of Manga".'

trivia[7]='Katsuhiro Otomo adapted his own apocalyptic Akira Manga into the spectacular 1989 animated movie. Latest film by Otomo is Steam Boy, just opening in Japan.'

trivia[8]='Several of the most successful Manga creators are women, such as Rumiko Takahashi of Inu Yasha fame, who was ranked as one of the ten wealthiest people in the country.'

trivia[9]='Nearly half a million visitors come to the Comiket Manga marketplaces to buy thousands of "dojinshi" or self-published fanzines. Its one of the biggest gatherings of any kind in Japan.'

trivia[10]='Manga, literally translated, means "whimsical pictures".'

trivia[11]='Otaku is an obsessed fan of manga or anime. Otaku was once a good thing to be called. Now and days is a rude way of saying that someone is so obsessed with manga or anime that they dont have a life. (I.E: Anti-social)'

trivia[12]='"Shoujo" means "Young girl". Shojo are mangas aimed at young girls up to 18 years old. They deal more with the fantasy and romantic side of manga. Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, Paradise Kiss and Peach Girl are examples of Shojo.'

trivia[13]='Yakuza means "Pocket sized mangas". Seeing as how Mangas are published in such big volumes over in Japan, they often come out with Yakuza which are easier to carry and also have manga-ka notes and letters in them.'

trivia[14]='"Seien" means "Young adult". Seien are mangas that are aimed at young males, about 16 or older.'

trivia[15]='"Mecha" is a term used for "Mechanical devices of a manga". Mecha devices can and do include: robots, ships, technical devices, weapons, and vehicles.'

trivia[16]='"Kawaii" means "cute". Cute or Kawaii things are very important to the Japanese culture.'

trivia[17]='"Gekiga" in Japanese means "Dramatic pictures". Gekiga is used to separate popular series from the commercial ones, the same way we say "comic books" and "graphic novels" here.'



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