While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- Late 1800s to the early 1900s: Japanese manga (comics) often used a structured, vertical layout with four panels per page.
- Late 1800s to the late 1980s: Heavily influenced by manga, Taiwanese manhua (comics) also favored a structured approach to layout.
- Post-1945: Manga artists began experimenting with dynamic panel sizing to enhance visual tension (e.g., establishing visual lines of sight between characters in one panel and objects in the next).
- 1947 to late 1980s: Taiwanese manhua artists adopted other manga characteristics (e.g., features of genre and narrative complexity).