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Originally posted by: theredbaron
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Manga is generally released in a mirrored way over there? Over here, most comics are right to left, because of purists and as a commercial gimmick, sort of like"ohh, look, it's opposite" - but mostly to keep faithful to the original, sometimes the contract made with the japanese publisher asks for it to be published this way (when I grab some "ocidental" comic book I sometimes forget about it and look at the last page first).

Then again, if the text isn't still in Japanese...I dunno. I'd definitely expect a comic to read 'backwards' if it was still in Japanese, but if it's been translated, well...wouldn't that include translating the format?

I mean, I'd get a kick out of a right-to-left comic, and I've got tonnes of Japanese Dragonball comics at home, but isn't that the point of translating and yada yada yada?

I wouldn't say that. Translating is simply bringing the same text from one language to another. Reversing the manga ends up altering every single image, which is far different from translating. It's really not that difficult to get used to right to left manga. In fact, I feel pretty cheated when I get stuff that is reversed, and I usually just don't buy it, even if I'm into the series because it just seems... wrong. I don't want to start thinking about what it's supposed to look like while I'm reading manga.