This past winter I taught a cartooning class for teenagers on the South Shore. The first day, when I asked the kids what kinds of cartoons they like best, almost without exception, they said they like "manga" - Japanese cartoons populated by characters with impossibly enormous eyes and stylized waves of hair. Once my eyes had been opened to it, I began seeing it everywhere...
At the Cambridge Public Library (now temporarily closed for remodeling) the young adult reading room windows boasted several giant paintings of manga-style characters.