"Detective Conan" is one of her most famous stories known globally and in the Arab world, of which close to 100 volumes have been published. It is characterized by its events and strong plot, as it tells about the story of the detective and his quest to solve the mystery of many strange events with an intelligent and knowledgeable way. This story and other features are included in one of the most important forms of Japanese art, "manga". It includes graphics, books and graphic novels, it varies from cartoon stories or what is known as comic, that are usually read from back to front and from right to left, unlike comics that are read from front to back. Manga magazines are printed on white pages or recycled papers with black ink, and contain more than 400 pages in the form of serial stories, which are published in magazines first then printed in books, and are concerned with the values, morals and customs of Japanese society, and are characterized by a method of events narration, as the focus is on the details, and its long and complex plots. They are characterized as well by simplicity in dialogue and its characters are close to reality. The details of the eyes are one of the most famous features of manga drawings, where the eyes of the characters are used to show various emotions such as horror, sadness, happiness and despair.
Manga has been in use for two centuries in Japan to give a description of comic stories. This is the most famous and largest of the cartoons known as animation, and was first known by Katsushika Hokusai, who published the first collection called "Hokusai Manga" in 1814 AD, which consisted of 15 volumes and contained 4000 comic drawings.
The manga is published mostly in black and white, and in some versions, it is printed in color, and there are many types of manga classified according to age groups. Manga is showing all kinds of subjects (romance, adventure, science fiction, comedy) and addressing all segments of society equally. It is deemed as one of the most successful experiments in comics worldwide, as its weekly revenues in Japan are equivalent to the annual revenues of the American comics industry, due to the high demand for it. Manga invaded Western societies in the early 1980s, with a wave of (Japanese animation) on European television screens. It has gained great popularity among young people in particular, making it a global art form that the world expects from Japan, whether by imitation or by the emergence of a new change in it insofar as all the children in the world love comics or that are turned into animation, and currently you can't find a child in our Arab homeland who only knows Japanese series or comics.
Japanese cultural centers around the world are one of the most important sources for the export of this art form. Japanese series dubbed into Arabic in the 1980s, such as "Grendizer" and "Lady Oscar", helped lay the foundation for the popularity of this type of art in the Arab community, and with the spread of the Internet, the popularity of manga began to increase. The easiest source for him became the translated pages available on the Internet.
Be that as it may, it is a beautiful and ancient art that is keen on recommending high morals and values and rooting them in a unique way through comic stories with plots embedded in a narrative style characterized by ease of presentation, and has many defining qualities that have made it unique in its genre, The Arabs were influenced by it and even took an interest in producing similar models that fit its reality and existence, but it did not deviate from the original Japanese model, which has proven its success, uniqueness, distinction and wide distribution.
