YMMV / Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga

• Unintentional Period Piece: This manga is a product of the mid-to-late 80s, and in some ways, it shows.
  • While much of its discussion and examination of the manga industry could've been written yesterday, there are times where it's abundantly clear when it was created. The discussion of Shonen manga was clearly written in a time before everybody was copying Dragon Ball, for example, and there are frequent mentions of then-contemporary events and developments.
  • The chapter on PR manga mentions then-ongoing economic tensions with America. Since at least the mid-2000s, both countries have been far more worried about China than one another.

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