Le boin boin: On Saturday, a BBC News correspondent in Tokyo discovered manga. Now its Paris bureau is reporting on manga's inroads into France, where it accounts for 30 percent of the country's comic book market:

"Though the dialogue is mostly translated into French, real connoisseurs know that the words 'boin boin' signifies the bouncing of a character's breasts, while 'bashi bashi' is the sound of someone being hit on the head."