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isaacada1
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 10:48 pm
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I'm curious what people's opinions are about flipped or unflipped manga. Does it matter if it's either way?
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cyrax777
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 11:03 pm
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i prefer unflipped as its cheaper and faster for the companys to put out.
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Blakerson
Joined: 10 Dec 2002
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Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 2:13 am
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I prefer the original unflipped version, and now that someone else mentioned it, it would be cheaper to not edit that drastically.
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Case
Joined: 09 Apr 2002
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 2:35 am
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isaacada1 wrote: | I'm curious what people's opinions are about flipped or unflipped manga. Does it matter if it's either way? |
Doesn't really matter to me. I read so little manga that release times and price have never really bothered me much. If I happen to like a particular series/book for some reason, I'll pick it up at any decent price facing either direction.
You might say that makes me unrepresentative of... well... anything, but in a way I think I do. I'm just your casual manga reader. I pick them up on a whim when the situation presents itself and when I find something I think is especailly interesting or relevant to other things I may be enjoying at the moment.
(For reference, my manga collection consists of Initial D volume 1, Steam Detectives 1, X Prelude, and I think another one or two random books; for the time being, anyway.)
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radicaledward
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 1:10 pm
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Unflipped - for some reason it just seems to be a bit easyer to read, and the art seems to flow a bit better as well.
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Aurora
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Location: Ontario Canada
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 8:05 pm
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I read either way- where I live, manga and anime are hard enough to find without being picky about flipped-unflipped! But overall, I prefer unflipped, simply because, even though it took time to get used to, its more original and flows a little bit better.
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kogechan
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:53 pm
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Unflipped is the way to go.
Maybe because I'm used to it now.... ^^;;
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Rex Hondo
Joined: 31 Mar 2003
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Location: Indianapolis
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:37 am
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Unflipped is definitely my format of choice, though it's by no means a deal breaker. It was never a HUGE issue, but when I read things like the Tenchi and Star Wars manga, there's always that little detail-oriented voice in the back of my head wanting to know just why the heck everybody is suddenly left-handed...
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Mreow
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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Location: Norway
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:01 pm
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I'd choose unflipped any time.
(_//=^_^=\\_)
Mreow
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isaacada1
Joined: 04 Sep 2002
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:00 am
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It appears that only Studio Proteus is still releasing flipped manga here in North America.
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king_micah
Joined: 09 Jun 2003
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 2:18 am
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Oh my goddess is still flipped.
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Mreow
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 3:57 am
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I prefer unflipped manga (with original soundeffects) but I have no problem reading both ways.
(_//=^_^=\\_)
Mreow
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Kanna no Mai
Joined: 06 Sep 2003
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 7:36 am
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I perfer unflipped, but without the original soundeffects. Unflipped is cheap and its fast to publish. Keeping the original soundeffects annoys me because I don't know what those words say, can they just put a page in the end that translate what those soundeffects mean in English!
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cyrax777
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 2:29 pm
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Kanna no Mai wrote: |
I perfer unflipped, but without the original soundeffects. Unflipped is cheap and its fast to publish. Keeping the original soundeffects annoys me because I don't know what those words say, can they just put a page in the end that translate what those soundeffects mean in English! |
VIZ has started to provide sound effect translations in the back of the book. Saw it in Excel Saga vol. 1
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Aaron White
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:58 am
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I don't care, but over on the Comics Journal board someone made the point that when we read unflopped we're reading the visuals right-to-left but still reading the word ballons left-to-right, so we have to keep shifting gears, back and forth. I think this has always been a minor problem for me in reading unflipped.
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