History
Mangajin began shaping in 1988 when businessman and translator Vaughan Simmons began making prototypes of a magazine that could combine Japanese popular culture, entertainment, and language-learning into one. Simmons worked with clients from American and European companies and saw how successful they could be with the Japanese and learned the culture, which boosted up the motivation for Mangajin. When developing the concept, manga became an ideal solution with the medium being so large and attracting some of the best artists and writers. Manga also gives a big perspective on real Japanese society and how the language is spoken. Simmons started creating a "four-line-format" which shown many different translations: direct word-for-word showing the logic of the sentence, pronunciation, reading, etc.
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