When Did The First Official Bookmanga Release Occur?

2025-08-29 13:30:21 171

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Charlotte
Charlotte
2025-08-30 20:39:47
I’ll keep this focused: the milestone most historians point to is 1814, when Katsushika Hokusai published the first volume of 'Hokusai Manga'—a bound collection of sketches that used the word 'manga' in its title. People who prefer to trace roots even further point to 'Kibyoshi' (late 1700s) as comic precursors, while fans of modern manga talk about mid-20th-century developments (like 'Shin Takarajima' in 1947) as the moment modern book-format manga really took off. So 1814 is the neat, textbook-style date, but the full picture spans centuries and a lot of interesting publishing changes.
Kieran
Kieran
2025-08-31 14:35:32
I love telling this as a little timeline in my head: first there were the picture books and satirical prints—'Kibyoshi' in the late 1700s—that had sequential art and social jokes. Then in 1814 came something that literally carried the name forward: 'Hokusai Manga' by Hokusai, which is frequently credited as the earliest printed volume to use the title 'manga.' That edition wasn’t a serialized graphic-novel in the modern sense, but it mattered because it packaged drawings under the banner of 'manga' and was sold as a book.

Jump ahead to the 20th century and the story shifts toward serialized magazines and collected volumes. The compilation of serialized strips into book form—the tankōbon model—became a standard practice across the early and mid-1900s and exploded in popularity after works by figures like Osamu Tezuka changed storytelling and production. So if someone asks when the first official book-manga release happened, my short, layered reply is: Hokusai’s 1814 volume is the canonical earliest 'manga' book, while the book-format manga we read today crystallized during the 20th century, especially around and after the 1940s.
Flynn
Flynn
2025-09-01 13:04:49
I get excited talking about this because the whole thing is a lovely tangle of art history and publishing terms. If you mean the first book that actually used the word 'manga' and was sold as a bound volume, the commonly cited milestone is the first volume of 'Hokusai Manga' by Katsushika Hokusai, published in 1814. Those sketchbooks collected dozens of humorous and observational drawings and are often pointed to as the moment the label 'manga' entered print in a book form that resembles what we’d call a picture collection.

That said, I always like to bring up the earlier picture-story books known as 'Kibyoshi' from the late 18th century because they feel like the comic ancestors of manga: panels, sequential art, satire, and mass-market appeal. So historically you can say the roots go back further, but the first time a work titled 'manga' showed up in book form was that 1814 Hokusai volume. If you’re digging through libraries or secondhand stores, finding an old reprint of 'Hokusai Manga' feels like holding the start of a huge cultural thread, and it always makes me smile.
Adam
Adam
2025-09-02 19:05:37
When I frame this in a more practical, modern sense, I think of two different 'firsts.' One is the early 19th-century moment when the term 'manga' appeared on a printed book: that's 'Hokusai Manga' (first volume, 1814). It’s a collection of sketches rather than a serialized story, but it’s historically important because it set a precedent for calling illustrated collections 'manga.'

The second 'first' is about the format we now expect: serialized comics compiled into a single volume (tankōbon). That practice took shape much later, especially during the early-to-mid 20th century and really standardized after World War II. Works like 'New Treasure Island' ('Shin Takarajima', 1947) by Osamu Tezuka are often mentioned as pivotal in shaping modern manga storytelling and mass-market book releases. So depending on whether you mean the first use of the word or the first modern-style manga book, pick 1814 or the mid-20th century as your answer.
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