Why doesn’t manga ever make any sense?

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Because it's a bunch of wordy, boring Nip bullshit just like the rest of their garbage "culture", most if not all of which they ripped off of Sui/Tang China and the West anyways.

The USA had to drop two nuclear bombs on them before they got the message FFS.

Happy Pearl Harbor Day.
 
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You can find translations these days, you don't have to try to read it in the original language even if the faggots tell you that's the only "proper" way.
 
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Lots of reasons.
  1. It depends on the manga. Some authors are vastly more obtuse than others. Some write "westernized" plots that are fairly easy to follow, while others write shit that reads like it was made on fucking ketamine and shrooms.
  2. It depends on the translation. Some translations are very literal, and some Japanese puns, simile, and other figures of speech do not translate well to other languages. Some translations try to convert those colloquialisms to their English equivalents. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't, and purists will always complain about it, even if most people prefer non-literal localizations that capture the essence of the dialogue while being easy to comprehend. Some of the best translations do take a lot of liberties, but not so much that they bastardize the actual dialogue and plot.
  3. Manga is highly variable in quality. Good manga is really good. Bad manga is dog shit. Some manga artists really fucking suck at basic composition of scenes and making panels flow logically from one to the next, resulting in a confusing mishmash of panels that don't quite make a page.
Bargain Bin Laden said:
What do you mean?
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Unless mirrored, most manga is read right-to-left. This throws off a lot of first-time readers. The panels are read right-to-left. Even the individual word bubbles in each panel should be read right-to-left. If you're actually holding a physical book, the cover will be on the right side of the book and you'll actually flip the pages right-to-left.

For example, here's a page from some fantasy manga where I've marked the reading order of the panels and word bubbles:

MangaReadingOrder.png
 
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Have you tried reading from right to left rather than left to right?
AirdropShitposts said:
You can find translations these days, you don't have to try to read it in the original language even if the faggots tell you that's the only "proper" way.
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No one says this about manga. They just read fan translations and hope those are good enough. Not because they're superior, though. It's because fan translations are free.
 
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