Japanese Manga Quotes

#1. Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.

Takashi Murakami

#2. Those who get in the way of love's path will be kicked by horses.
~Kyoya

Bisco Hatori

#3. In pursuing a 'way,' Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#4. I've always loved Japanese legend, anime and manga.

Lauren Beukes

#5. I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

Toyin Odutola

#6. At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#7. In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it's reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#8. I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.

Ai Yazawa

#9. I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.

Natsuki Takaya

#10. In this world, not everything will be won by justice. If you want to win, you have to learn how to cheat. (Nana)

Ai Yazawa

#11. Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.

Natsuki Takaya

#12. Even if there are no new Mighty Atom manga or films created, the Mighty Atom character has become a permanent fixture of both Japanese and global pop culture.

Frederik L. Schodt

#13. I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.

Cassandra Clare

#14. The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.

Takashi Murakami

#15. Life in Japan, nowadays, is nothing like a Kurosawa movie, and only the contemptible Weeaboo thinks that it is. In order to be a whole, well-rounded Otaku, you need to be up on Japanese popular culture, as much as you may be up on anime, samurai philosophy or the canon of Square Enix games.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#16. And where shall we go from here? The Library is vast and infinite.

Hideyuki Kurata

#17. I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

Christian Marclay