In 2019 the Anime Expo attracted over 115,000 people from all over the world to the Los Angeles Convention Center. The expo, which is the largest anime convention in North America, would not exist without Japanese comics called manga. While appealing to the masses, most mangaka work alone. They write the scripts for the stories and draw every panel themselves. Because manga are a black-and-white medium, most mangaka shun computers and digital art programs. Instead they create art the old-fashioned way, with ink pens that allow them to draw sweeping dramatic lines that can range from light to very heavy.

Introduction: Mangaka make art -- Osamu Tezuka -- Naoko Takeuchi -- Eiichiro Oda -- Hiromu Arakawa -- Koyuharu Gotouge.