Bengaluru has always been the city that picks up trends early. Tech, coffee culture, gaming, K drama, cosplay, everything lands here before the rest of the country blinks. The newest wave sweeping through classrooms, college hostels and even co working spaces is something nobody expected to treat as a problem. Japanese comic books. Manga.

What began as a harmless hobby is now landing people inside the SHUT (Service for Healthy Use of Technology) Clinic at NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences). And the age group is not just school kids losing sleep over cliff-hangers. Even 25 year olds have walked into therapy saying they simply cannot stop.

A New Kind of Addiction

“In the last six months alone, we have seen at least six or seven cases where manga reading has t

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