Manga is a robot.
The G1 figure came out in Crew 4. He resembles some sort of Japanese manga-style robot (or mech), particularly those from the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise called Gundam SD.
In Japan, manga refers to a simplified style of drawing or cartooning. In the US, manga refers to any comic coming from Japan.
In G3, Manga became a Transformers parody. In one version, he is specifically an Optimus Prime parody. A second version is black, gold, and red. This version is probably a nod to Grimlock. A third version is green and purple. He resembles Devastator.
In the Zoods Crew 2, the green-and-purple version came with a zood named Click. He is a mouse. A computer mouse. The trackball design of a hand-controlled pointing device -- the hardware that we call a mouse -- goes back to 1965.
For some reason, when Spin Master "Re-Leashed" four of the zoods, they gave Click to Minga instead of Manga.
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