Fans! Fans! Fans! We see them all over the newspapers and television. There are hoards of them.

Nowadays, lots of people are interested in the weird and wonderful of celebrity and most people would be able to name their favourite star or a person in the limelight who they idolise. The lives of our favourite celebrities are daily splashed across the newspapers and magazines and celebrity gossip really has been made a lot more available. This is why the celebrity signature and memorabilia industry has taken off as the interest in celebrity has continued to grow.

Some manga produced in Japan is published weekly as part of huge 300-page anthologies of comic stories. Just like many people read newspapers on trains on the way to work, Japanese commuters read these anthologies.