Just got my first ever mangas in (Fist of the North Star and Ah My Goddess). I read them from right to left right? Opposite of what I normally do right?
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It depends on when they were published. It was common until around 2004 to publish manga mirrored so it would read left to right. When Blade of the Immortal was translated they actually went to the effort of mirroring the layout, but preserving the orientation of the art in the cells due to the constant use of the menji symbol (flipped, it's a swastika).
Basically, the direction you flip the page determines whether it's mirrored or not. If page 1 is in the 'back' and you turn pages from the left, you read from the right (page turning and reading backwards of English). If page 1 is where it would be in a normal book and you flip pages as normal, it was printed mirrored and you read left to right.
Again, after mid 00's the latter is extremely uncommon.
fucking lone wolf and cub, all the calligraphy wall scrolls are flipped and swordsmen left handed
Ok this is right to left so must have been made recently. I’m a comic book collector as well, and I’m curious what are the most collectible manga or like the equivalent of action comics number one or amazing fantasy 15?
In terms of raw collectability, I'd say the ToysPress english run of Mamoru Nagano's The Five Star Stories is probably the most difficult manga set to complete. And it itself is incomplete, cutting off several volumes short of the JP printing.
Some other items that come to mind:
The last volume (10) of the 2009 english printing of Kaoru Mori's Emma is also quite rare, selling for a couple hundred dollars.
Complete sets of the 2004 english printing of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind are getting hard to find.
Thanks! I appreciate rabbit holes
Nah, the right to left has been pretty much the default since they have been coming over to the West. The left to right was just a half/half thing on official translations in the 90s to the early 2000s.
Very few people read official translations of manga. Even the biggest AAA series are usually consumed by scanlations instead of officials.
As such, collecting manga is really not much of a thing. At least not outside Japan. In Japan manga are often packed with all sorts of extras, like official extra illustrations, drama cds, OVAs, even figurines. Those are probably worth something still packaged, but outside Japan manga is basically paperweights in terms of resale.
Gotcha. Just curious. With comics I care more about reading them and the hobby than money and I’m interested in reading the manga
I feel you. Manga is much more oriented towards the hobbyist and reading than comics in my experience. Things like alt covers and special #1 prints and all that pizazz that exist entirely to try and artificially create "collector's value" aren't common like they are in comics.
Back in my weeb-ier days the common joke was that its entirely a money sink, designed to get you hooked so you buy more merch such as figurines and boxsets.