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Guaranteed Human.

Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Stuff I Never Told You, a production of IHart Radio.

And today we are jumping into a huge topic, a huge topic that I'm not going to lie to you.

I am learning alongside those of you who might not know much about the subject.

As such, this is an abbreviated look at the massive and varied history of manga

and slightly anime. At first, I was going to do anime because that was the original suggestion

I got. But then, when I was going into the history, it just all started with manga first.

So, anime will be at a later date. We're going to be

touching on a lot of things that could certainly be their own episodes. And a lot of this history

is pulled from Japan, but there are a lot of styles from other countries and indeed in Japan itself.

Also, I failed at my pun attempt because I didn't realize that anime was a thing,

as in may, anime, appreciation. So since we're focusing on manga, it didn't work out for me.

Also, there's obviously a cultural difference here as somebody who is an American.

I don't have a lot of experience with manga.

I think there's just some things I'm not going to understand.

I did a lot of research and a lot of reading on it, but that being said, I think there's just

some things I'm not going to pick up on. So, before we get into it, and we aren't focusing on

women in manga specifically in this, I mean, probably obviously, given the focus of our show,

I did want to go over some terms. So,

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