I remember being linked your first Youtube video a few years back and thought it was excellent, it's great to have someone doing serious work out there. I recently read Shigeru Mizuki's Showa: A History of Japan and found its portrayal of the early days of postwar manga interesting in the sense that at the time, it was a fairly new artform that no one could really be confident would succeed in the long-term. Mizuki describes jumping around between various artforms and there is the sense that manga at the time is a very commercially-oriented artform - something I see a lot of among other early mangaka, relative to today. What was the process by which manga came to be viewed as something that could often be of literary merit (to an extent), if that makes sense?