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coquelicoq · 2 years ago

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Hi again! Thanks for answering my previous ask! I find it funny that I have the opposite thoughts about story formats, feeling more comfortable with static images from manga (or words in a book) than the fluidity of animation/live action series. I guess having read manga since I was like 10 I'm just used to it as a format and don't find the points you make any issue? (Always read top to bottom, then right to left, and dialogue has pointers or an icon in/besides the bubble, rarely left wholly to context.) While in contrast, during dramas I often feel that I didn't get to catch the details before they're gone from the screen. Regardless, it was cool to hear your opinion on manga! 🐰💛

(By the way, yep, natsuyuu simply comes from mashing the words together to make the name shorter, which is pretty standard, especially if there's not enough words to make an interesting acronym. And if I may comment, I love the FMA manga, so if you do get to watch either of the anime version, I would enjoy knowing your opinions on the FMA:B adaptation, since it's the one that's closest to the manga. Only if you decide to watch and share, of course. 🐰💛)

that is really interesting! i like that you're distinguishing between static forms like books/manga and moving forms like animation/live action. that makes a lot of sense. my first instinct is to think of it as forms with pictures (manga/graphic novels/animation/live action) vs. forms without pictures (books), because any time there are words and images, the images become secondary to me. i'm so into words that sometimes i don't even look at the images because i just want to get to the next words! whoops!!

thank you for explaining the whole "natsuyuu" thing because i was almost at the "i don't know what this is and now i'm too afraid to ask" point and then i would have just been suffering in silence lol. i think FMA: Brotherhood is the one that was recommended to me earlier, so hopefully i will get around to watching it someday! thank you for all of this info and for your thought-provoking questions! have a lovely friday <33

#i wrote a bunch of stuff about what i mean about the panel order being difficult for me but deleted it because it was sooo long #and because i thought about it more and the bigger issue is just that. i skip over the pictures. which is...kind of major lol #funnily enough right to left instead of left to right isn't difficult at all. for whatever reason i adjusted to that right away #so that's not the problem. western comic books aren't any easier for me than manga EXCEPT that they tend to be in color #and this manga at least is not #i didn't realize how much i was relying on color for context clues and continuity and telling characters and settings apart #until it wasn't available and now i'm like...oh wow color was doing a lot of heavy lifting for me lol #asks #anon #gonna tag this #comics #for tracking purposes #also you said that the order is top/bottom then right/left...but the cheat sheet for noob americans in the back of this natsuyuu manga #says right/left then top/bottom! so what is the truth!!!#it's complicated because sometimes panels are horizontal and sometimes they're vertical...sometimes they're diagonal...#sometimes the person on the left/bottom speaks before the person on the right/top...#sometimes dialogue at the top left is meant to lead into dialogue immediately below it or below and slightly to the right #and sometimes you're supposed to start over at the right side of the row below #hm hm hmmm. really makes u think

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