[MMM]

I am not trying to jump at anyone. I just think we have to be careful when we talk so sweepingly about "manga style". I think it's a term that people that have heard of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh can throw around, but it is a much richer, deeper, and vast field than that.

Manga is a format. It is Japanese for "comics".

"They made it, so they apply the styles that go to it I guess."

Japanese manga-ka are about as concerned about maintaining the styles of Japanse manga as much as American TV show makers think "We need to make sure we keep this American". For the most part, Japanese writers write for a Japanese audience, and are less concerned with maintaining the art. This may be more true of kabuki performers or traditional calligraphers because theirs are distinct national and struggling arts passed down generation to generation. I think we want to think the same is true of ALL things Japanese, as we here so much of tradition in Japanese art, but manga flows and changes expands and surprises constantly.