Kodomo

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Kodomo ( Japanese. 子 供 , dt. "Child") describes a genre or a type of anime and manga , which are aimed specifically at children up to middle school age. They appear as manga in magazines aimed at children and contain many furigana as reading aids. In contrast to the series for older readers, such as Shōnen for boys and Shōjo for girls, there is no separation of the target group by gender in the Kodomo manga.

At the beginning of the modern manga after the second. During World War II , almost all series were aimed at children, so there were fewer magazines specifically aimed at children. One of the first was The Kodomo Manga Shimbun from 1946. From the 1960s onwards, older readers were gradually addressed, so that from the 1970s onwards, separate magazines only for children were established. The most important of these is CoroCoro Comic , in which one of the most important series of the genre appeared with Doraemon . Another important magazine is Comic BomBom , which was discontinued in 2007. The magazines often advertise or contain merchandising about the series. Before there were manga magazines for children, Kodomo mostly appeared in mixed magazines in which comics are only a part and which also offer a lot of educational content. Since the 1990s, Kodomo manga itself have also been used more intensively to convey education and upbringing, for example by adapting fairy tales and children's book material or biographies.

In addition to Doraemon, Hamtaro , Pokémon and Dr. Slump well-known representatives.

The annual Shogakukan Manga Prize and Kōdansha Manga Prize also have a category for Kodomo Manga.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Toni Johnson-Woods: Introduction . In: Toni Johnson-Woods (Ed.): Manga - An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives . Continuum Publishing, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-8264-2938-4 , pp. 9 .
  2. ↑ a b c Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , pp. 50 .
  3. ↑ Frederik L. Schodt: Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics . Kodansha America, 1983, ISBN 0-87011-752-1 , pp. 61f. (English)
  4. ↑ 59. Shogakukan Manga Prize. Shogakukan , accessed July 28, 2014 .
  5. ↑ 36th Kodansha Manga Prize. (No longer available online.) Kodansha , archived from the original on Jan. 2, 2012 ; Retrieved July 28, 2014 .