

I was reading Recipe for Gertrude, and in chapter 10, there's a part where
they're driving in a car and one of the characters says, "Now sit down please.
That could be fatal in this manga." I was wondering if this was a relatively
common occurrence. Also, I was wondering where that idea of mentioning in a
manga that they're in a manga came from.


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Where does the idea of mentioning that they're in a manga come from?


This is indeed a common trope, and not even a Manga specific one, generally
referred to as [Breaking the Fourth
Wall](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreakingTheFourthWall).

For example the Marvel character Deadpool is a well-known for doing this in an
even more extreme fashion. You can find a lot of Manga/Anime examples
[here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BreakingTheFourthWall/AnimeAndManga).

To learn more about the different versions of Fourth Wall Breakage visit this
article on the [Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall
Hardness](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness).

To my knowledge, in this case it would count as [Fourth Wall
Observer](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FourthWallObserver).


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