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The manga
showcased the 900-year
of the art. It included the earliest
of manga by master painters to sketches and illustrations of today's
anime and video game characters such as Pokemon. There were also exhibits from
films known as "anime". The show included 70 manga series, including Osamu Tezuka's seminal work "Astro Boy". Hartwig Fischer,
of the British Museum, said: "Manga is the modern
art of storytelling first perfected in Japan and is
loved all over the world. Building on Japan's centuries-old
, the best manga have the visual power to excite us and draw us into their world, with inventive storylines that engage our
."
