Digimon of the franchise, a device marketed in June 1997 with the name Digimon, a short for "Digital Monster". Aiming at the male audience and created by Akiyoshi Hongo (a pseudonym that refers to the creators of "Tamagotchi"), this device shows to players a virtual pet composed entirely of data and designed to play and fight. In February 1998, the "DigiMon" fighting game, compatible with Windows 95 and developed by Rapture Technologies, Inc., was announced. The one-shot manga "C'mon Digimon", designed by Tenya Yabuno, was published in the Japanese magazine V-Jump by Shueisha in 1997. A second generation of "virtual pets"
Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics Warrior". "Manga! Manga!" was enthusiastically reviewed in the mainstream and comics press and received a prominent endorsement from Stan Lee. In 1996, Stone Bridge Press published Schodt's "sequel" to "Manga! Manga!", "". In the introduction to this book, Schodt states that a Japanese bistro in Berkeley, California took its name from "Manga! Manga!" Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics is a 1983 book by Frederik L. Schodt. Published by the Japanese publisher Kodansha, it was the first substantial English-language work on Japanese comics, or "manga", as an artistic, literary, commercial and sociological