FCS098 The stages of reading Manga

Comments

[Resender]

I have absolutely no problem reading mangas right to left, what I do hate hate are English/French versions of manga whose pages are left to right instead or right to left

[sairth]

I find that since I've spent more time reading manga than english comics, I mistakenly read the latter right-to-left all the time.

[D]

No problem here either with reading right to left. I refuse to read translated mangas in English, though. The characters sound ridiculously different from how they do normally.

[ddd]

Ironically, I have no problem at all. Even though I grew up in the states, I always naturally flipped the pages in a book from left to right. It always felt natural to do it what would be considered reverse in the US and western world.

To this day I can still not do the single handed page flip with a US/western book... but I have always been able to do it naturally with Japanese books.

The result: I tend to read the end of stories and the backs of books first in English. But do things normal from the beginning in Japanese.

["J"]

The reading isn't as difficult as following the action right-to-left in manga...

That took some getting used to as a young kid.

[Stormryder]

Only problem with Anime is that they cut so much out of the Manga.

[Murat]

I have heard about the earthquake that hit Japan. Are you fine ?

I hope Japan does not suffer much from this disaster.

[nas]

The thing with reading mangas for me is a self problem. The thing is that I had constantly bending the book to the point that it will stay curved as well as to make that white thing on the bind and edges, so I tend to keep reading view to a bare minimum which is a pain when the text is basiccly on the bind and I can't read it properly

[b]

The comics are small. When they're printed in magazines they're actually a good 50% bigger. But since individual volumes are intended to be collected and not thrown away (unlike the magazines), I guess they decided it would be better to print them smaller.

Reading right to left should not be a problem for anyone, at least not for someone who hasn't been reading American comics waaay too long.

[Pat]

Yeah, is everything okay where you're at?

[Khalid (Comic Chef)]

I'm fine and my Japanese family is safe. Thank you all for your concerns here and on the Facebook fan page! Please, do what you can to help Japan.