2023届高考英语一轮复习外刊语法填空 Toon wars 讲义

外刊语法填空含全文翻译和重难点句型讲解 Toon wars: manga v webtoons Japan’s cartoon books are being eclipsed by the Korean interloper Lee Hyun-Seok grew up in South Korea addicted to Japanese manga series such as “Dragon Ball” and “Slam Dunk”. As soon as he could, he 1._________(emigrate) to Tokyo to build a successful career as a manga artist and editor. Then in the early 2000s came “webtoons”, a South Korean cartoon innovation optimised for smartphones. Mr Lee was at first unimpressed. Compared with manga’s inventive graphic styles and sophisticated plots, he found webtoons crude and superficial. “I thought: ‘Anybody can make this’.” Yet Japanese manga is being eclipsed by Korean webtoons. Last year the manga print market shrank 2._________2.3% to ¥265 bn ($1.9bn). The size of the global webtoons market was meanwhile valued at $3.7bn—and projected 3._________(reach) $56bn by 2030. manga is gravitating to digital slowly, in part because it is still designed for print, so awkward to read on smartphones. The letters tend to be too small and the way the panels are laid out 4.__________(require) constant zooming in and out. Seeing which way the wind was blowing, Mr Lee abandoned manga for the webtoon industry in 2014. Though webtoons such as “Itaewon Class” and “Solo Levelling” have become popular among Japanese consumers, most Japanese publishers have stuck doggedly to manga. “The Japanese industry is very conservative,” sighs Mr Lee. “There’s a strong belief 5._______ it’s better to stick with precedent.” The manga industry’s business model, in which stories are first published in weekly magazines and then in books, has hardly changed 6._______ the 1960s. Their format is also sacrosanct. Japanese manga hew to unique templates which require special knowledge of readers, such as the order in which panels 7._______ be read. “The only people who know how to read manga are Japanese, Koreans and geeks across the world,” says Iwamoto Keita, 8.__________ runs a cartoon studio.Webtoons have