Manga-Verse: Origins of Manga
iOS app by Carl Nolting. Books · Carl Nolting
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- Free to download
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- 1.2
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- 2026-09-10
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Every manga enthusiast knows the image of the Great Wave. Far fewer know the man who sketched it, or that the word "manga" was in print a century before anyone drew a comic book. Manga-Verse is a portal back in time, to the artists modern manga came from. Ten mangaka, from Edo through Showa. Fifteen works. Over four hundred pages of real woodblock prints and illustrated books, all custom curated within the public domain. READ THE ORIGINALS Full-bleed pages from the actual books and print series. Katsushika Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji. Kawanabe Kyosai, who signed himself "demon of painting." Utagawa Kuniyoshi's ghost stories. Kitao Shigemasa's scenes of everyday Edo life. WHERE YOUR FAVORITE MONSTERS CAME FROM Oni, yurei, tanuki and the rest, shown in the prints where they were drawn centuries before they reached the page you know them from. Each one traces the lineage of the Mangaka. FIVE EXPANSIONS, FIVE DESIGN SYSTEMS Classic Manga's bold halftone. Origami's folded paper and crease patterns. Origin Story's gold on archival black. Originators' Meiji lithography. Vinyl Record with Neon Mode. Each is a complete visual redesign, with its own typefaces, palette, textures, and vocabulary. BUILT TO BE READ English, Japanese, and Spanish captions on the pages that have been cataloged, written against the artwork rather than generated. Where a print carries its own inscription, the Japanese is transcribed and translated. COMPLETELY OFFLINE No account. No sign-in. No ads. No analytics. No network calls of any kind. Every image and font ships inside the app, so it works identically on a plane. Nothing you do here leaves your device. All five Expansions are included. There are no in-app purchases, no currency, and no paid unlocks anywhere in this app. Manga-Verse is an independent application, not affiliated with or endorsed by any manga or anime publisher, studio, or rights holder. Modern works are named only for historical comparison.
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