The manga industry operates as a massive incubator for intellectual property. Successful manga series are systematically adapted into anime series, live-action dramas, merchandise, and video games.
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The 20th century brought radical shifts. After World War II, American occupation introduced jazz, Hollywood films, and baseball. Japan absorbed these influences and Japanized them. By the 1960s, the country had its own "golden age" of cinema (Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi), and by the 1970s, television had become the central hearth of the home, birthing the variety show and the taiga drama (annual historical epics). The manga industry operates as a massive incubator