Summary:
Social media, Instagram in particular, has erased boundaries of cities, even nations, to foster Chennai’s budding manga community. The city’s manga community, though still underground, is budding like the sakura our favourite card captor is named after. Sense of a community“The manga community in Chennai is very disconnected,” says G Anjali, a nineteen-year-old visual art student at Stella Maris. Chennai-based Dikshitha, is always on the lookout for fellow amateur manga artists, or mangakas as they are known. “There are international manga artists who host collab projects, so the sense of a community strengthens,” says Shalaka..