漫画 (manga) means “comic” | MotiTan Japanese Dictionary

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弟は将来、漫画を描きたいです。otōto wa shō rai man ga o ega ki ta i de su

My younger brother wants to draw comics in the future.

Presents a story or idea through a sequence of drawings, often with words in speech balloons or captions.

コミックkomikku: A broad everyday term for a book or series that tells a story through pictures and words.

絵と短い文章などを組み合わせて物語や内容を表す読み物。e to mijika i bun shō na do o ku mi a wa se te monogatari ya nai yō o arawa su yo mi mono

漫画 (manga, "comic") combines 漫 (man, "free-flowing") and 画 (ga, "picture"), and the term is also known from Hokusai Manga.

English uses manga as a loanword for Japanese comics, while comic is the broader everyday term for this kind of reading material.