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trigunner
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I know this is sort of crazy, but In what format do you prefer to read manga. Personally I prefer to read it the traditional Japanese way. Right to left.
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gnollman
 Posts: 535 Location: Richmond, KY |
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All mine read right to left. But then, they don't come in left to right, so that's just to be expected....
Manga should be read in the fashion it is written, be it left to right or right to left.... |
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rage-demon
 Posts: 356 Location: WA, USA |
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The direction doesn't matter to me at all. I easily and quickly switch from one way to another.
But what i do care about is that the manga is kept in it's original format. So if it was originally printed in the right to left format, then i want it kept that way. Too often seeing a mirrored image just throws things off (especially when someone is talking about their right hand, and yet they are holding up their left hand). |
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Mou Kaoru
 Posts: 298 Location: Simple minds are easily amused. |
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Doesn't matter to me as long as I get to read it.
I can easily switch between both formats, although most of the manga I have are in the traditional format. I don't have much manwha, but it doesn't bother me to read it left to right. Although there are time when I'll pick up a magazine and open it the wrong way. Habit I guess. 
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Nagisa
Moderator
 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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I prefer the original layout, simply because that's how the author presented it. However, I have no severe grievances with flipped manga.
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trigunner
Posts: 173 |
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Neither do I, though "flipped" manga tends to have lots of errors.
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Kanna no Mai
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To me it's the Traditional Japanese way. Why because it's very unique and it does not mess with the manga-ka's work.
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ZahmiraV
 Posts: 243 Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
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I prefer it in it's original format. If it gets flipped, then there can be all kinds of problems, like mirroring. Suddenly everyone is left handed, or uniforms are on backwards, etc.
I'm very happy to see that North American manga companies are starting to leave the manga alone. Trigun, Hellsing, and Berserk are unflipped. This leaves more time for translating correctly! |
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frostedsaiyan
 Posts: 637 Location: Maryland |
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Right to left the traditional way. Besides they don't even make them left to right. I don't think they do.
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Aaron White
Old Regular
Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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I can take it either way, but one of the editors at the Comics Journal pointed out something interesting; When the manga is translated and unflopped, you're reading the pictures right-to-left but still reading the text left-to-right, so you're reading in two different directions, eyes pinballing back and forth. For that reason I slightly prefer flopped.
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Carol Maxwell
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I prefer right to left, it's cheaper to buy!
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Samurai CDZ
 Posts: 776 Location: Manhattan, KS |
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I noticed that with Newtype USA, and while it wasn't really annoying it was a little wierd. I haven't read any manga unflipfloped but I think I prefer flipped. |
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Shorty22
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Both ways seem natural to me now.
However, I don't like the flipped images when specific details will be screwed up, like a scar on the left cheek is on the right, the character is left handed, etc. It makes the whole scene seem off. Also, the way vertical text was presented in Onegai Teacher really bothered me. It's like they put it in backwards or something.  If the manga had been flipped, perhaps this wouldn't have been as noticeable.
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rage-demon
Posts: 356 Location: WA, USA |
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Oh My Goddess is one manga that is still being printed in the flopped left-to-right format. I'm used to it by now, but sometimes i hate seeing a mirrored image. One such image that looked too wrong was a gameboyish handheld game system with the D-pad on the left side... it just looks so wrong. |
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trigunner
Posts: 173 |
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Why do they even bother when it is cheaper and easier to leave it right to left? [plus hardcores like us don't notice mirrored images and stuff like that
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