Osamu Tezuka, the creator of the manga, began his career in 1946. At the beginning of his career he wrote mainly shonen manga, but from the 1950s he also wrote for adults and as the theme of the word war and its consequences. Subsequently he also dealt with sexuality, economics, alcoholism, nationalism in his comic series. He died in 1989, but the work he began gained followers in Japan. (Power, 24-34) Manga is not only a comic, but also has the characteristics of prose, fiction and non-fiction. (Poitras, 49) Manga stories can also derive from novels. It touches on a range of themes and has stories for different age groups. The wide variety of genres attracted many people, especially teenage girls. In 2000 the manga market also spread to the West and found new publishers and translators. He even encouraged young people to draw and create graphic novels themselves. (Brenner, 12-13) Aside from right-to-left reading, manga series differ from Western comics especially in their pictorial representation. Characters have different designs, and feelings and events are expressed primarily visually with solid symbols and effects, rather than textual references. It requires active reading by the reader to understand all the signs. Readers may feel like they are learning something new about representation, theme, and reading style. (Brenner, 75)Osamu Tezuka had many followers, such as Shinobu Ohtaka, who started writing a new manga called Magi with the title The Labyrinth of Magic in 2009. It appeared in the Weekly Shonen Sunday Magazine and the story is not over yet , because even today new volumes appear. This is an Asian story,......middle of paper...margins." Metropolitan Magazine. vol. 171, 132-1353. Dollase, Hiromi Tsuchiya. 2011. "Choosing Your Family: Reconfiguring Gender and Family Relationships in Japanese Popular Fiction". Journal of Popular Culture. vol. 44, no. 4, 755-772.4. Poitras, Gilles. 2008."What is Manga?" Quest for Knowledge. vol. 36, no. 3.5. Power, Natsu Onoda. 2009. God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.6. "Sumomomo's Ohtaka Launches the Magi in Shōnen Sunday Mag." Available: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-05-27/sumomomo-ohtaka-launches-magi-in-shonen-sunday-mag Accessed: 17.11.2013.7. The mental health of mothers of physically abused children: the relationship to children's behavioral problems – a report from Japan”.. 3, 204-218.