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shōnenrefers to manga marketed to a male audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. Examples include Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, Rurouni Kenshin, InuYasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, Flame of Recca, Naruto, Bleach, Detective Conan, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh and Fullmetal Alchemist....
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mangaManga consist of comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century...
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Kazuo Umezu, is an author of Japanese horror manga.He is often considered to be the godfather of the genre. He had his first book of manga published while still in high school and made manga his career immediately upon graduation...
. The series was initially published in
Shōnen Sundayis a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan.- History :Shōnen Sunday was first published on Tuesday, March 17, 1959, the same day as its rival Shōnen Magazine...
from the late 1970s through the early 1980s, and later returned at the end of the decade retitled as "Heisei-ban Makoto-chan".
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is a
shōnenrefers to manga marketed to a male audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. Examples include Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, Rurouni Kenshin, InuYasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, Flame of Recca, Naruto, Bleach, Detective Conan, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh and Fullmetal Alchemist....
gagA gag is usually a device designed to prevent speech, often as a restraint device to stop the subject from calling for help. This is usually done by blocking the mouth, partially or completely, or attempting to prevent the tongue, lips, or jaw from moving in the normal patterns of speech. They are...
mangaManga consist of comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century...
by
Kazuo Umezu, is an author of Japanese horror manga.He is often considered to be the godfather of the genre. He had his first book of manga published while still in high school and made manga his career immediately upon graduation...
. The series was initially published in
Shōnen Sundayis a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan.- History :Shōnen Sunday was first published on Tuesday, March 17, 1959, the same day as its rival Shōnen Magazine...
from the late 1970s through the early 1980s, and later returned at the end of the decade retitled as "Heisei-ban Makoto-chan".
Plot
The series follows the odd life of kindergartener Makoto Sawada and his family. Makoto gets into all sorts of
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adult humorBlue comedy is comedy that is off-color, risqué, indecent, profane, or obscene. It often contains cursing and/or sexual imagery that shocks and offends many audiences. The term comes from the music hall comedian Max Miller who kept all his adult jokes in a blue coloured notebook."Working blue"...
. He sometimes dresses in his mother's and sister's clothing, and often has a long strand of
mucusIn vertebrates, mucus is a slippery secretion produced by, and covering, mucous membranes. It is a viscous colloid containing antiseptic enzymes and immunoglobulins that serves to protect epithelial cells in the respiratory,...
dangling from his nose.
Trivia
- Makoto's grandfather is the main character of another of Kazuo Umezu's works entitled Again.
- One of the most familiar aspects of the series is the catch phrase used by many of the characters, "Gwashi!", which is accompanied by a hand sign made by pressing the middle and pinky fingers down while leaving the other fingers sticking out.
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