Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons
by franciscop on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:25AM
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I'm not saying that color alone makes it better than greyscale, that'd be absurd. What I'm saying is that for the same "percentile of quality", color wins pretty much always.
Since full-color as a set technically includes the B&W set (and in the case on point of Solo Leveling, there are some scenes that are notably impressive while being mostly B&W! or grayscale with a shadow hint in other color) then it's a truism that full-color reaches to heights that B&W can never reach.
Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons
by bnjms on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:17AM
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An author known for her detail is Kaoru Mori. Her art is really beautiful. And while it’s Josei I think it’s appealing to those outside the usual demographic. It is much better than any webtoon where most suffer from samesie character design.
But to say that color alone makes it better than greyscale… No, I can not agree with that. A matter of taste? Perhaps. But there is some absurdly beautiful art in Manga too.
Starkness, working within constraints, has its own beauty.
And, as an aside, full color manga is becoming a thing too. More and more full color webtoon style comics are coming from Japan; from mangaka.