"In the past, during our grandparents' generation, and maybe even during ours today, there were people who forbade children from reading manga because they thought it'd make them stupid. But manga is gradually starting to be accepted as a kind of art. So we ought to create something whose quality and content can uphold this pride. We don't have the skill for that just yet, though, so we've got no choice but to think of how to win the love of our readers while we make our stories."
got their start here. Sometimes, an existing anime series gets a manga adaptation; see
, unless the manga was flipped during its English printing, which rarely happens these days, or the
decided to write it left-to-right for some reason, which happens even more rarely but does occur from time to time, or the mangaka made two versions him/herself, which is extremely rare. The last page of manga books that are published in the US usually consist of instructions concerning the proper way to read manga books, though some publishers don’t include them any more.
”), however, are generally read from left to right. Some manga scanlation sites have started showcasing a few manhwa, leading to some confusion in reading order when readers assume them to be Japanese manga. Chinese comic books are known as
, and read from right-to-left like manga; they also tend to be in color, like mainstream American comics.
