Are Mangas a waste of time?

To comfort myself from the organic test and the outside reading analysis that I had to at school today, I was reading manga, which are Japanese comics. Some people think that reading comics are a waste of time and instead kids should go read novels by great authors Shakespeare or Hemingway. Today, I want to argue that some manga are beneficial to read and is not a waste of time.

First, I must admit that most mangas are written for commercial purposes. Manga is a huge business in Japan, the market representing approximately $3.6 billion dollars in 2007, and has increased since. Most mangas are commercial, but there a few out there which makes one think and is beneficial to them in life. One of these manga is the "Detective Conan" series by Gosho Aoyama.

The story is focused on Kudou Shinichi, a high school detective who was drugged when trying to observe a black deal, which caused his body to transform into a kid instead of killing him. With a body of a kid and the brain of a high school detective, Shinichi solves various murder and crime scenes which he comes across. You might be thinking how would reading this be beneficial? Let me answer that for you.

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Cover art for Detective Conan, volume 61.

The manga is formatted in a way so the reader finds clues of the murder and they try to discover who committed the crime before they reveal it in the manga. This develops analysis and interpretation skills.

The main benefit of reading "Detective Conan" is the education of science concepts along with other survival skills. Many science concepts are discussed in the manga and used as a tool to commit murder, such as crystallization and radiation. The book also educates the reader on survival skills, such as what to do when bitten by a poisonous snake and so on. One teenage boy in Japan returned safely from the woods after getting bit by a poisonous snake because he knew how to care for it by reading "Detective Conan" prior to the accident.

So as one can see, reading "Detective Conan" has many benefits, contrasting what many adults think. The translated title of this series is "Case Closed", so I encourage you guys to check this awesome manga series out!