In France, towards the end of the 1980s, the appetite for mangas and Japanese animation began in earnest with the broadcasting of Japanese cartoons on French television. By 1994, early fans published fanzines containing comics inspired by mangas that were difficult to access (contrary to the Japanese cartoons on television). Young authors, most of them barely twenty years of age at the time, tried to emulate their Asian role models, but inevitably their own European cultural background intervened, may it be in the language or in the way they dealt with comic-book genre codes.