manga mark
English
Etymology
Of manga + mark. Compare Japanese 漫符 (manpu, “manga icon”).
Noun
manga mark (plural manga marks)
- (cartooning, manga, anime) A cartoon icon; a symbol used to indicate emotion, movement, etc. in a drawing; especially one used in or associated with Japanese-style manga.
- 2006, David Shwalb; Jun Nakazawa; Barbara J. Shwalb, Applied Developmental Psychology: Theory, Practice, and Research from Japan, page 29:
- Cultural learning experiences are required to understanding manga marks. For example, adults of Botswana interpreted a sweat mark used in Western comics as blood, rain, and tears (Byram and Garforth, 1980).
- 2014, Tatsuhiro Kishi; Hajime Futaki; Gabriele Trovato; Nobutsuna Endo, A Robotic Head that Displays Japanese “Manga” Marks:
- In a previous preliminary experiment, we determined facial expressions for the robot KOBIAN-R with manga marks. Those expressions included four manga marks as “Cross popping veins” for “Anger”, “Tear mark” for “Sadness”, “Vertical lines” for “Fear” and “Wrinkle” for “Disgust”.
- 2016, Jun Nakazawa, “Manga literacy and manga comprehension in Japanese children”, in Neil Cohn, editor, The Visual Narrative Reader, page 248:
- Nakazawa (2005b) asked the meaning of the twelve manga marks to a sample of kindergartners, first-, fourth-, sixth-, and eighth-graders. Understanding of manga marks progressed along with grade level (Figure 7.2)
- 2020, Kurobokuya, Kurobokuya manga lesson 4:
- The comprehensive techniques that composes manga is immature. But there is a very high expressiveness in some aspects, such as the creation of a face viewed from the front and the expression of expressions using manga marks.
See also
Manga iconography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia