The origins of Japanese comics stretch back to the 12th-century Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (Bird and Animal Character Scrolls), widely considered Japan's oldest manga. The term "manga" itself was first used by the legendary ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in 1814. Modern manga as we know it took shape in the post-war era, largely through the revolutionary work of Osamu Tezuka, whose 1947 New Treasure Island introduced cinematic paneling techniques that transformed comics into dynamic visual narratives and established the foundation for modern story manga.
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