Who Reads Manga or Comic Books?

[bbk2132]

I love manga!! My faves being Naruto, Inu-yasha and Ph.D.

I rent a lot of Anime movies too.

[atalaya]

i love books! when i'm not tackling a book on the martial arts or language i usually grab some comic books! i loved v for vendetta, watchmen, sandman(!) et cetera, but also enjoy reading batman and the occasional manga or american manga title (usagi yojimbo for example). i must say that i read whenever i get the chance. my wife tries to take books from me, but i have some mild success with heavier books!

[kivikala]

I am a dyed-in-the-wool Masamune Shirow fan (Ghost in the Shell, Intron Depot). I was introduced to Sandman by a friend and enjoyed that tremendously as well. I enjoy quality Manga -> Anime crossover stuff but it is getting harder and harder to find anything that wasn't hacked together overnight for the American saturday morning cartoon audience.

[Shotokan-kez]

Ok guys what is manga?? I'm not into comics much but when my nana visits she always brings a cominc for my son.

[atalaya]

okay, now here is what i know "manga" to be: manga is the japanese word used for comic books. japanese comics are usually thicker and shorter than american comics (we tend to prefer the 11 1/2 x 18" or whatever they are) and usually japanese comics are black in white except the cover. i have the full run of "dragonball" and only the covers ever got any color.

now what commonly happens is that a manga (or a comic) will become so popular that it becomes an anime (which is the word used for japanese animated features, although many people confuse these terms). sometimes there will be some changes made to it but in a lot of cases it's even got the same sound effects! japanese comic books, manga, are generally printed from right to left and not left to right. they are read from right to left and from the top of the page to the bottom. this is because when they were translated into english, they just used the same print tablets. at first they tried to just print everything left to right to make it easier, but it offended the japanese authors because the characters that were left in original format were all backward!

hope this helps. i did some research for this before for my school paper back in highschool, not to mention i love manga!

[Shotokan-kez]

Thanks atalaya that helps, very interesting stuff!