Hey idiot
You're reading wrong and storytimes are trash.
Hey idiot
paper manga is retarded
double page spreads look like shit
Man I remember being autistic about the double page shit for a little while before I realize it seriously doesn't matter nor is worth it
The Japanese read manga on their phones too, you know
What manga are you reading where they draw on their phones?
utter retard
It's a genuine tragedy honestly- there's so many supposed mangafags on this board that fail to recognize that the medium they jerk off constantly is composed with the visual of TWO pages in mind.
b-but Japs read on their phoens
And? I'm not saying "Woah, Japs based, always right, I'm a stupid gaijin", I'm saying "This was made and composed a certain way". You objectively cannot speak on how a manga is composed if you are only considering it one page at a time unless it's literally made to be read that way.
I recently reread most of Baki with this double page composition in mind and was blown away by how consistently Itagaki took advantage of it- even in other more dialogue focused pages, he creates interesting paneling spanning across those two pages.
people consuming ENG fanfiction claim that the REAL ENG fanfiction needs to be read in paper format
have you tried not reading ENG fanfiction at all
Yeah bro, physical is so much better.
The panels look the same.
muh ENG fanfiction
Manga is art.
I usually read double page on my own time, but reading one paged doesn't really bother me, especially when art isn't the highlight of the manga.
In fact, I sort the manga I follow into two categories, the ones that I don't want to compromise my reading experience, so I usually just read the chapter 2 paged (or do it on my own before commenting on a storytime), and the ones that doesn't really matter, and reading on a phone or Anon Babble won't really affect my enjoyment.
environmental storytelling, even
While this is an argument against storytimes, you can read digital manga two pages at a time like this.
I don't care how things are "supposed" to be consumed - and consumed is what it is. I don't appreciate manga as an art form or respect the talent of its creators, I consume it to entertain myself and occupy my spare time. I will consume it in whatever way I like best. I don't care about whether you approve of my gorging, or whether the author intended me to consume it in any given way, because you are a line of text among countless billions on the internet, and authors exist solely to produce the slop I fill my metaphorical belly with and have no personal reality or feelings worth caring about.
Some mangaka take the crease into account, but then that makes scans look off.
my reader has a double-page mode, hth
You really typed this out and pressed enter believing it makes you cool and mature, didn't you?
Even if some storytimes post double pages?
intentional aristic statement about her emotional alienation or some shit idk
Old gold doesn't have this problem.
physicalcucks never recovered from that one KEK
What I don't understand is why they can't just take a small amount of additional time it would take to make the spreads work for both physical and digital. I imagine you'd just have to split the spread and do a little bit of adjustment to get something like this working in the physical version if you split it and moved it a bit and added a gutter and did a little bit of adjustment. It would still probably look somewhat off but it would be better than it is now. And it would work well for spreads where it isn't the character's face in the direct middle.
it's intentional
Couldn't even wait for the next thread to start sperging out could you?
Many mangaka work with single-page layouts. How do you know they wouldn't prefer for their works to be viewed single-paged? Certainly there are series which are made with the double-page layout in mind, but I see no reason to assume the opposite couldn't be true, as well.
because they hired the lowest bidder, who hires the cheapest employee, who knows he gets paid by the page
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kwabaroo
Please post all the mangaka working on single page layouts that aren't posting directly to a digital platform.
sperg going on about physical when the topic is just that manga is presented with two pages and not just one
cope, you got owned OP, better luck next thread
Well, Rumiko for one
If you search "絵コンテ・ネーム展" on twitter you can find more pics from this particular exhibition. Most seem to use single pages, though admittedly many of them also have some kind of page direction marker. I wouldn't necessarily take that as evidence of them specifically drawing with the double-page format in mind, though. And of course, there are also some like the Maiko-san author who actually do have double-paged storyboards.
Just letting you know I will fuck your cunt mouth crossboarder
I would give my left nut for a book with the sketch pages of dragon ball
it works a lot better in sewn binding deluxe editions and also mostly fine in the actual magazines. it's the tankobon volumes, especially omnibus, that have this problem. they're just too lazy to edit them properly. even a lot of the deluxe volumes are shit quality with either poor scans or poor translations. physical in general is dying out and the amount of people who actually care about the print/editing quality is quite small. many collectors don't even read physicals and just buy it to stick on their shelf.
i hate twitter so fucking much
How do you know they wouldn't prefer for their works to be viewed single-paged?
They wouldn't publish it in a fucking BOOK
You're not supposed to draw important details where the gutter is. Period.
They all do, retard. They just have it planned out in their head if the pages are paired to be read side by side.
blame the editor, not the medium
Reading Baki as two-page spreads is a pain when Itagaki keeps doing landscape-oriented pages, so the typesetter rotating it automatically breaks the double-page setup. Not that either of them are wrong to do those things, a digital reader problem really. He does make it look phenomenal most of the time though
Saw the thumbnail in catalogue and realised I've never read AKIRA in its original format since the official English translation is all flipped. Then wondered how I can recognise the elevator from such a small image.
Yeah, the most recent anniversary version was unflipped, which I guess is what OP's picture is from. But it was only released physically, not digitally.
I can't because I only collect manga in japanese