Re: Manga and anime: Reversed?


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from whuang@cco.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang)
subject Re: Manga and anime: Reversed?
date 1 May 1995 18:03:57 GMT
C h a e <paladine@p.imap.itd.umich.edu> writes:
>	The real question is less ambigious than the subject line.  
>Anyway, I noticed this almost immediately when I first started reading 
>manga and watching anime of Ranma, but layout and drawings in manga and 
>anime are reversed, as in if manga has Ranma standing in left and Akane 
>in the right, the anime will have Akane standing in left and Ranma on the 
>right.  I noticed the same thing with Maison Ikkoku also.  So the obvious 
>question is...  "Why?"

You're reading the American manga, which has reflected all the panels so
that they go from left to right.

>	And for the trivia-minded of us all.  Name one other character in 
>Takahashi universe (manga and anime)aside from Ranma's immediate family who 
>has the family name of Saotome.

Saotome is not an uncommon surname, so I'd guess it'd be from another series
that I don't read.

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