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While researching a topic, a student took the following notes:
  • Late 1800s to early 1900s: Japanese manga (comics) typically used an orderly vertical format with four panels on each page.
  • Late 1800s to late 1980s: Strongly influenced by manga, Taiwanese manhua (comics) also tended to use a structured layout.
  • After 1945: Manga artists began experimenting with panels of different sizes to heighten visual tension (for example, by creating visual sight lines between a character in one panel and an object in the next).
  • 1947 to late 1980s: Taiwanese manhua artists adopted additional manga traits, such as genre features and greater narrative complexity.
The student wants to describe how Taiwanese manhua relates to manga from the late 1800s through the late 1980s. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A
From the late 1800s to the late 1980s, Taiwanese manhua increasingly broke away from manga by developing more innovative layouts.
B
Even though Taiwanese manhua did not always follow every development in manga during this period, it remained heavily influenced by manga.
C
From the time manga’s layout first started changing in the late 1800s until manga adopted dynamic panel sizing in the late 1980s, Taiwanese manhua kept a structured layout.
D
Although Taiwanese manhua artists initially rejected manga’s growing genre range and narrative complexity, they adopted those features in the early 1900s.