Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons
by userbinator on Sunday December 11, 2022 @07:16PM
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It's worth noting that manga, manwha, manhua, are slightly different ways to pronounce what are essentially the same characters which mean "comics" across those respective languages: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%BC%AB%E7%95%AB
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Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons
by numpad0 on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:06AM
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I think that's because Korean and Chinese usages are loanword from Japanese manga. Japanese version of Wikipedia traces etymology back to 17th-18th century pseudo-Chinese word, later extended to include Western comics which became the roots of modern day manga.