The kanji that are used to write the word manga in Japanese can be translated as "whimsical drawings"

or "impromptu sketches."[16] Originally an 18th-century Chinese literati term,[16] the word first came
into common usage in Japan in the late 18th century with the publication of such works as Sant
Kyden's picturebook Shiji no yukikai (1798), and in the early 19th century with such works as Aikawa
Minwa's Manga hyakujo (1814) and the celebrated Hokusai Manga books (18141834) containing
assorted drawings from the sketchbooks of the famous ukiyo-e artist Hokusai.[17] Rakuten Kitazawa
(18761955) first used the word "manga" in the modern sense.[18]

In Japanese, "manga" refers to all kinds of cartooning, comics, and animation. Among English speakers,
"manga" has the stricter meaning of "Japanese comics", in parallel to the usage of "anime" in and
outside of Japan. The term "ani-manga" is used to describe comics produced from animation cels.[19]