has a unique place in Japanese culture./
Still, looking back to those adult passengers who are (A) in manga on their long, daily
commuters train rides, we should examine (3)the negative side of manga. No matter how
powerful, or even how high its artistic quality may be it does not necessarily become an excuse
for those people not to read other conventional, normal books, that is, books with words rather
than pictures. One might ask, "Why don't they read any serious books at all?" Many of these
people probably have important positions in society and at their workplace, and in spite of that,
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