Manga magazines in Japan usually consist of several comic titles which each fill about 30-40 pages of the magazine (one chapter / chapter). The magazines themselves usually have thicknesses ranging from 200 to 850 pages. A successful manga title can be published for years like "ジ ョ ジ ョ の 奇妙 な 冒 / Jojo no Kimyō na Bōken / JoJo Bizarre Adventure / Secret Mission". Generally, successful titles can be raised to be animated (or now better known as ANIME) examples are Naruto, Bleach and One Piece
Some of the original manga stories can be lifted based on novels / visual novels, for example "Basilisk" (not circulating in Indonesia) based on the novel "甲 賀 忍 法帖, Kōga Ninpōchō" by Futaro Yamada, who tells the battle between the Tsubagakure ninja clan and the ninja clan Manjidani Koga. There are also those who raise in terms of history, such as the history of the Three Kingdoms (The Three Kingdom) such as the Dragon Legend (Ryuuroden) and Japanese histories, sometimes there are those who use names that really exist, some are using fictional characters
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After a while, stories from the magazine will be collected and printed in the form of ordinary sized books, called tankōbon (or sometimes known as the volume). Comics in this form are usually printed on high-quality paper and are useful for people who are not or lazy to buy weekly published manga magazines that have a variety of stories / titles. From this tankōbon form manga is usually translated into other languages in other countries such as Indonesia.
For some titles (which are successful) or even have been made / will be made a human version (Live Action, or sometimes abbreviated as LA in Japan), some titles that have been named Live Action are Death Note, Detective Conan, GeGeGe no Kintaro, Cutie Honie, Casshern , DevilMan, Saigake !! Otokojuku and others [2]
Furthermore, some titles will be remake internationally by producers outside Japan, such as America, who made the Hollywood version of Live Action Dragon Ball (20'th Century Fox) [3], and the live action is reportedly made from Death Note by the western producer [4].