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Publication featuring new American and Japanese art (5)

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manga

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'japanese art' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'publication featuring new american' is the wordplay.
'publication' becomes 'mag' (abbreviation for magazine).
'featuring' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'mag' placed around 'n' is 'mang'.
'mang'+'a'='MANGA'

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for manga that I've seen before include "Japanese comic genre" , "Jap. comic book" , "Entertainment in Tokyo" , "Japanese cartoon genre" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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