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Question: Preferred manga/comic reading direction
Choices:
Left to right - votes: 1914 (17.7%)
Right to left - votes: 8882 (82.3%)
There were 10796 total votes.
The poll ended: December 26th 2009

Last edited by lambchopsil at 1:47 am, Dec 26 2009

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That's hard to pick... I prefer my comics (not manga) to be left to right since I'm used to it like that. It'd be really weird to read Calvin and Hobbes right to left Manga on the other hand, I'm used to reading right to left so it's annoying when some series switch directions. Even if I were to write a manga or a comic, I still would go left to tight for comic and right to left for manga, but that's just me.

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Right to left.

Why? Because even though I'm a book worm, I currently read more manga. So I'm quite used to it already.

If I ever wrote a book, it would most likely be left to right, because it would be released in America, in English. Though if I draw a manga, write in Japanese/publish in Japan, it will be drawn right to left.

But really, I don't care either way. I'm definitely not one of those people you speak of, thinking it's more pure to have text going right to left.

tl;dr

i.e. Conditioning.

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Can't vote because I really don't care either way.

I prefer to read things in the direction they were originally written, but beyond that I have no preference. (I should probably mention that I have very little sense of left or right, to the point that I have to think about it way too hard to know which way to go when I'm given left/right directions.)

If I were to write/draw something, it would probably be left-to-right because that's *slightly* more "natural" feeling than right-to-left, and because the only language I'm fluent in is English & it's read left-to-right. (Had to go back & fix that because the first time I wrote it out I got it backwards...)

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So basically, do I prefer reading right to left vs left to right?

While I have no problem reading left to right, I'd probably choose right to left, just because I'm more used to it.

Of course, if we do take into account whether or not it's an American comic or a Japanese manga, then I'd just choose
whichever format it was published in.
Because I do like purity.

... This is going to sound kind of strange. Just a warning. The fact that it's almost five in the morning probably isn't going to help.

I prefer right-to-left.

My reasoning (or the best I can think of at the moment): For me, reading left-to-right is "for novels" and the like; it feels strange to skip around a page of panels, since I'm more used to reading things in uniform, tidy lines across a page without pictures.

Since 99.9% of the comics I read are manga (I think the only "actual comics" I've read are Calvin and Hobbes and Watchmen), I'm more used to the "flow" of comics/manga/what-have-you when I'm reading right-to-left.

But, I don't know if I'd actually try writing/drawing a comic in the right-to-left format. For one, I'm right-handed--and that would be kind of awkward. Two, it would be for an English-speaking audience, and left-to-right is the accepted format--why change it? It'd just cause more confusion than it's worth.

I think mewnbrite got it in one, though: It's essentially to do with conditioning.

Right to left.
At times I forget
I am reading manhwa
and wonder what the hell
is happening.

I usually don't read comics... So I'm used to Right to left. It's feels kinda strange left to right.

That happens to me all the time. Then when I switch back to a manga, and I'm still reading 'left to right' and get confused XD

That's a hard question. I mean, sure, I'm used to 'right to left', but that's only been over the past 4 years. I've grown up with the American comics and book reading, so when I switch to 'left to right', it's a really natural switch. I find it takes me longer to switch back to 'right to left' and get used to it compared to how long switching to 'left to right' takes to adapt.

If I was to draw a comic, I'd naturally go for 'left to right' without question. So I think my overall answer here is Left to Right

I don't care... at all. I have no preference.

Poll should have included that, tch.

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Happens to me as well.
That's why I prefer right to left. I'm used to it already.
I don't read American comics, so it plays no role for me.

Besides, one has to get used to reading right to left here,
since Hebrew goes in that direction>_>



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Whichever way it makes sense, left to right confuses me sometimes, but that is all.

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I prefer left to the right, the normal reading way, in the beginning but I'm used to right to the left now, so it doesn't matter anymore.

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If I had a choice, I'd choose right to left since that's how I read books and everything else. xD

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I don't really see the difference, but I picked right-to-left since I'm more used to it, crappy Chinese romance novels and all... (i.e. the translated Saiunkoku Monogatari novels :X) Though I must say those are more a challenge to read than manga... Either way is fine, I guess it depends on the author? Whatever's comfortable. /rambles