Desc: Foto Novelas: Mangas: Directed by A.P. Gonzalez. With Eliana Alexander, Mimi Cozzens, Yvette Cruise, Ulysses Cuadra. From the FOTO-NOVELA series and winner of an Alma Award, Mangas is about a young Costa Rican boy who is adopted by an American middle-class family. After many attempts by the family to acculturate the boy, he finally begins to assimilate by magically summoning his homeland environment to his adoptive American home.