Da purple Ninja's Leads

Narrative:

It’s a Saturday morning, and Angie, an active manga reader has nothing to do. She decides to go to the public library to check out some manga to keep her busy. After browsing through a couple of titles, she picks up a book that she’s heard about a lot. “ Hey, my friends were reading this one, and they sounded like they really liked it!” she thinks to herself. Angie reaches out and grabs the book, and begins to read it. After looking at a couple of panels, she feels confused at the order of the book. A minute later, she realizes that the book reads backwards; instead of the usual right-to-left format that most manga is written in, it read left to right. “Great, just great,” Angie thought to herself again, slowly walking towards the checkout counter, hoping that the plot of the book was worth it.

Descriptive:

For those of you who don’t read manga, you would feel that reading left to right is perfectly normal. In the manga world however, it’s flipped and read right to left. This, at first, can seem confusing, but after a while you get used to it. To most manga fans, reading right to left is preferred. To have some manga in right to left and left to right format has been known to confuse readers. Not only that, but it offends the original artist. This is a problem that needs to be addressed and and solved by the fans.

Descriptive:

Manga; a Japanese style comic book. They are usually written in small books, or published with or titles in a manga magazine (ex: Shonen Jump). They are very popular around the globe, and becoming increasing popular in the US. They are read right-to-left, which is confusing at first, but eventually becomes second nature to read it. I wish it was as simple as that, but it’s not. Starting in 2002, manga publishing companies have started to “flip” manga to read left-to-right,(despite the preferred right-to-left reading reading format by fans,) and has begun to anger fans and the artists.