original_language_of_work koe de oshigoto!
The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures . Scholars have posited a pre - history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings . By the mid - 20th century , comics flourished particularly in the United States , western Europe ( especially in France and Belgium ), and Japan . The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer ' s cartoon strips of the 1830s , and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as " The Adventures of Tintin ". American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips ; magazine - style comic books followed in the 1930s , in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938 . Histories of ___MASK43___ comics and cartooning ("") propose origins as early as the 12th century . Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century , and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post - World War II era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka . had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history , but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia . In ___MASK43___ , the term describes any type of perverse or bizarre sexual desire or act ; it does not represent a genre of work . Internationally , hentai is a catch - all term to describe a genre of anime and manga pornography . English adopts and uses hentai as a genre of pornography by the commercial sale and marketing of explicit works under this label . Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems . With one or two minor exceptions , each sound in the ___MASK43___ language ( strictly , each mora ) is represented by one character ( or one digraph ) in each system . This may be either a vowel such as "" a "" ( hiragana  ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as "" ka "" (  ); or "" n "" (  ), a nasal sonorant which , depending on the context , sounds either like English " m ", " n ", or " ng ", or like the nasal vowels of French . Because the characters of the kana do not represent single consonants ( except in the case of  " n "), the kana are referred to as syllabaries and not alphabets . Unlike other ___MASK43___ magazines , Comic Gum rarely contains posters or pin - up pictures . However , a special gift is given away together with each issue , which is related to one of the series featured in the magazine . That includes Special DVDs , Trading Cards or Drama CDs . Kanji , or " kan ' ji ", are the adopted logographic ___MASK81___ characters (') that are used in the modern ___MASK43___ writing system along with hiragana and katakana . The ___MASK43___ term " kanji " for the ___MASK81___ characters literally means " Han characters " and is written using the same characters as the ___MASK81___ word '. Japan (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State of Japan ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland ( east of China , Korea , ___MASK75___ ) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest . Koei Co ., Ltd . is a ___MASK43___ video game publisher , developer , and distributor founded in 1978 . The company is known for its historical simulation games based on the novel " Romance of the Three Kingdoms ", as well as simulation games based on pseudo - historical events . An is a ___MASK43___ pornographic video game . History . ___MASK43___ eroge , also known as H - Light novels or hentai games , have their origins in the early 1980s , when ___MASK43___ companies introduced their own brands of microcomputer to compete with those of the United States . Competing systems included the Sharp X1 , Fujitsu FM - 7 , MSX , and NEC PC - 8801 . NEC was behind its competitors in terms of hardware ( with only 16 colors and no sound support ) and needed a way to regain control of the market . Thus came the erotic game . The first commercial erotic computer game , " Night Life ", was released by Koei in 1982 . It was an early graphic adventure , with sexually explicit images . That same year , Koei released another erotic title , " Danchi Tsuma no Yuwaku " (" Seduction of the Condominium Wife "), which was an early role - playing adventure game with colour graphics , owing to the eight - color palette of the NEC PC - 8001 computer . It became a hit , helping Koei become a major software company . The term " manga " ( kanji : ; hiragana : ; katakana : or ) in Japan is a word used to refer to both comics and cartooning . " Manga " as a term used outside Japan refers to comics originally published in Japan . Koe de Oshigoto ! (  ! , `` working with voice '' ) , also known by the short title KoeGoto (  ) , is a 2008 -- 2013 manga series by Azure Konno , about a girl working as a voice actress for an eroge development company . It was serialized in Wani Books ' monthly Comic Gum magazine . A two - episode anime adaptation was produced by Studio Gokumi and released in 2010 and 2011 . The earliest commercial ___MASK43___ animation dates to 1917 , and production of anime works in Japan has since continued to increase steadily . The characteristic anime art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of Osamu Tezuka and spread internationally in the late twentieth century , developing a large domestic and international audience . Anime is distributed theatrically , by television broadcasts , directly to home media , and over the Internet . It is classified into numerous genres targeting diverse broad and niche audiences . In contrast to the hiragana syllabary , which is used for those ___MASK43___ language words and grammatical inflections which kanji does not cover , the katakana syllabary usage is quite similar to italics in English ; specifically , it is used for transcription of foreign language words into ___MASK43___ and the writing of loan words ( collectively " gairaigo "); for emphasis ; to represent onomatopoeia ; for technical and scientific terms ; and for names of plants , animals , minerals , and often ___MASK43___ companies . Genre ( or ; from ___MASK47___ " genre " , " kind " or " sort ", from ___MASK66___ " genus " ( stem " gener -"), ___MASK72___  , " gés ")