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  • 4 - Graphic Style in Anime and Manga

  • from Part II - Drawing and Movement
  • Edited by Jaqueline Berndt, Stockholms Universitet
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime
    Published online:
    07 November 2024
    Print publication:
    31 October 2024, pp 59-69

  • Summary

    Since the middle of the 20th century, manga and TV anime have developed in parallel, borrowing from one another on practically every level from narrative content to expressive devices. Their productive exchange on the level of style has been facilitated by their shared material basis, the line drawing. This material homology could even blur the boundary between the static and the animated image, with anime borrowing and reproducing the dynamism of manga drawings. At the same time, movement inherent in the drawing and movement of the drawing are both intrinsically bound to the graphic style. This chapter addresses the relation between the movement of the anime and manga image and certain stylistic parameters (such as iconic abstraction, visual density, and quality of the line), providing a new vantage point on aesthetic and material connections between the two media forms, as well as on the ongoing evolution of TV anime.