| Most of us should know already that some manga is put into our reading direction, left to right, but sometimes it is left going right to left. Which do you prefer, and why? |
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| Right to left because most manga series' reading direction are like that and I've gotten used to it. |
| I'm so used to right-to-left, and until a few months ago, I had never even read a left-to-right comic, so I much prefer right-to-left, especially for manga. It's irritating when I'm reading a scanlation and all of a sudden the next chapter has been scanned from an official english volume and happens to be left-to-right. Throws me off. |
 "In both love and octopus-hunting, you have to take the initiative!" - Gintoki Sakata |
| right to left. Can hardly find a manga that actually reads left to right. Now I'm just used to it so it would be weird switching it around. |
Touch me, you filthy casual~ |
| I prefer right to left whenever reading one that's left to right i instinctively read right to left right to left is for Japanese manga while left to right is Korean manhwa |
| Right to left. The last time I read a manga from left to right, I got so confused and couldn't go with the flow. |
| My mind is more comfortable with right to left. I always catch myself reading that way in Korean manhwa. |
| I've gotten used to right to left, so that's what I prefer when reading manga. Sometimes I try to read western comics right to left out of reflex and I get very confused. |
やがて気づく本当の気持ちは そして 人間が大好きでした |
| When I read a manga/mangwa and I don't know the readin direction I automatically start from right to left unless it doesn't make any sense. Right to left is easier to read for me. |
| [Input amazing signature] Jelly? |
| I'm fine with either way but i prefer right to left!:D |
| I'm surprised ppl have actual preference to that o.o I'm okay either way. I recognise when is right/left and I'm good xD |
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| I'm good either way but if I were to have to choose, I'd probably go for right-to-left. Why? All of the reasons [about right-to-left] above. |
Kosters said: As long as the manga is good, I couldn't care less. |
| doesn't make any difference to me, i do automatically assume it's from right-to-left though, doesn't put me 'off my flow' if not though >_> |
| bottom right to top left |
| actually i didn't know that they put some mangas into left to right format O.o ... i can't see why that would make it any worse though, but it would probably pay off more to go ahead and get used to right to left so that you can read most manga without trouble ... *though, after getting used to right to left and trying to read calvin and hobbes, well, it was hell, i kept reading the punchline before the set up just out of force of habit T.T |
| I prefer left to right, it's just the way I prefer reading anything. It took me forever to get used to reading manga right to left, but I still prefer it the other way... |
| I got used to right to left and sometimes I forget to read left to right. That confuses me. |
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| Been reading left-right since i can remember but for manga and manga only i read right-left which is obviously the original format it's supposed to be read in, and sometimes i have the habit to grab a book and start at back or vice verse. |
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| Right to left is more natural for manga.I think left to right is more good for OEL manga and manhwa for example. |
| Right to Left. I'm used to reading that way at the rate that if someone unexpectedly change the direction of what I'm reading i get VERY confused (when I'm reading books is always left to right though, it's common) |
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| Becouse I read more manga than other comic style, I prefer right to left. |
| I Prefer Right to left, its a must . for me. |
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| right2left I catch myself reading every comic/pic/whatever right to left, which sometimes is very confusing X_X |
| Ive been reading Right to Left for so long, I picked up my math book the wrong way, and had my class freaking out :3 *Go Manga!* |
| ~KawaiiKitsune93~ |
| Common sense says you should always have the panels arranged in the order of your language however i have found out that when i read anything left to right my eyes quickly scan the entire page so its like i spoiler myself before i can see what im supposed to read to. When its right to left it flows against the normal direction so it prevents me from looking ahead. |
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AlexSadist-sama said: Right to left because most manga series' reading direction are like that and I've gotten used to it. What he said. My brain is functioned to perform this way now. Its default is left to right for books and comics but then it switches to right to left whenever I read manga. |
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| I prefer the original right-to-left. Besides, I'm used to it now so reading left-to-right for 'comics' is really confusing! >.< |
^ *prays for the day BBCode allows images again* |
| Right to Left desu ^^ |
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| I prefer right to left C: I've just got so used to it and a manga that's reading left to right just seems weird to me XD |
| - the Phantom Thief |
AlexSadist-sama said: Right to left because most manga series' reading direction are like that and I've gotten used to it. Same here :> |
''I was dead serious''  |
| I read alot of books and mangas/manwhas so it doesn't matter, but I'd say I prefer left to right because it was the way I was "learned" to read books. |
| Manga: Right-to-Left Comic Book: Left-to-Right I've been reading these for so long that my brain is trained to read it anyway it's put out. :) |
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| The original, Japanese right-to-left format. I don't have trouble switching to left-to-right when reading physical copies of Korean manhwa, but if I'm looking at a scanlated manhwa I automatically want to read right-to-left. It's in this instance where I have to watch myself. |
| I much prefer right to left. I'm just more used to it and it feels really weird if they try to "correct" it. I actually frequently mess up if they switch it to be more helpful. |
| Right- left most of the time. Sometimes when i'm reading Manhwa, I forget that it's left- right and end up reading it Right- left. |
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| Most manga that I have read is right to left and so that is what I am used to and on the rare occasion I get a manga that reads left to right it actually confuses me then, so I prefer my manga to be right to left. |
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| I prefer right to left, mainly because of habit :p I would probably get as confused as I got when I first tried to read manga. Although, I think it would irk me knowing that the artwork is flipped and possibly degraded slightly... |
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| Im fine with either but I'm a lot more used to it being right-to-left. |
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| Right to left since Im already used to reading it that way and its funny when someone I know tries to read it but ends up failing because they are reading it the wrong way. |
| Right to left. For me it wasn't that large of a learning curve to read in that way, and that's how the manga was intended to be read anyway. |
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| At first i liked left to right but after many years of reading manga i prefer the other way around. I remember when i read a swedish manga recently and i accidentaly read it the wrong way. xD |
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| Right to left, of course. It's a part of what makes manga.., well manga. I didn't know they made manga with left-to-right format. It's funny when people are like "You read that backwards?" |
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| Right to left. sometimes when characters hae something special on one side, like a lost arm, it gets completely turned around in left to right and makes confusion when you watch the anime, get a figure etc. Also of course when English publishors publish them left to right, everyone becomes a southpaw (going out from that most are rightpaw in original). But now I rarely see that anymore. Usually this just accurs in mangas published in englich in the 90's. Thouhg what really annoys me is how most publishers have this "stop, you're reading in the wrong direction!" in evry back of the manga. Like, even if its vol 10 or so. I would belier that people already have understood thatin the last 9 vols. |
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