A Beginner's Guide to Reading Manga

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A Beginner's Guide to Reading Manga
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• Manga is the Japanese word for comics and
  cartoons in print. (Anime, on the other hand, is
  animated cartoon for TV or film).
• Even though manga is essentially a cartoon,
  manga holds a higher place in Japanese culture
  than comics do in American society. Manga is well
  respected as both art and as a form of popular
  literature.

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Manga is generally categorized into different
genres

• shonen manga for boys and male teens
• shojo manga for girls and female teens
• kodomo for children
• redisu for adult women
• seinen for adult men
• jidaimono is historical drama
• suiri is crime and murder
• ecchi is erotic fare

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• Most large booksellers have a section dedicated
  to manga, but to really get a range of titles,
  try a comic book store. Either way, manga books
  usually have covers in color and maybe the first
  few pages as well, but the rest of the story is
  usually in black and white.

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• If you are comfortable with surfing the
  Internet, read manga online first. Do a search
  for one of the many directories of online manga
  sites and scan those sites for titles that are
  interesting. Many of the sites will actually show
  the manga book-drawing and text-from its Web
  site.
• Remember that when you read manga, you read the
  frames from the right to left. Often, when you
  open up a manga--just like you would a regular
  book--there will often be a page that will tell
  you how to read it.

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Give a few manga titles a try to get a feel for
what you like. Once you find a title you like,
you can look for more of the same or similar
titles with that publisher. Look for the English
publisher's Web site in the front of the book,
then check out that site--it will probably
contain descriptions of all their books and maybe
even a little sample online.
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Visit our site unixmanga.com
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