On Tue, 2 May 1995 AB3588@APPSTATE.bitnet wrote:
>>  you are reading the viz tranlations right? they reverse all the pages so
>>the panels flow in the normal english order (left to right), instead of
>>the japanese order (right to left).  I think this also makes most people
>>appear left handed.
>
>I have a Dragonball Z manga in the original Japanese which goes from right
> to left.  However, the manual for my Super Famicom Ranma Super Battle game
> goes from left to right.  Why the inconsistency?  Does it have to do with the
> fact that the manga uses vertical text and the manual uses horizontal?

I think that the difference in certain publications is just for novelties' 
sake.  The last time I went to Asahiya (was about a month ago...damn 
finals @_o) I saw a few video game magazines which went the western left 
to right.

And since, IMHO, Japan doesn't mind the differences too much, I think of 
it as another way to express yourself.

Do the japanese publishers flip the pages as they do over here for the 
Marvel (Spider Man, X-men, etc.) imports?

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