Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons

Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons by Macha on Sunday December 11, 2022 @07:57PM (#33949528)

How well does this work in practice? I'd imagine it works better for stuff like 4koma style where the panels have a consistent size/emphasis and stick rigidly inside the confines of the panel but what happens for big dramatic panels? Are they just avoided? Do they have parts of the overlapped panels duplicated? Do they need to produce an entirely different version of a panel for being a book page vs a scrolling format?

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Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons by makeitdouble on Sunday December 11, 2022 @10:06PM (#33950396)

The best case I've seen is Clevatess [0].

With absolutely no internal knowledge, I assume the author cuts the panels in traditional book style and specifies colors and background etc., and from there basically two teams running in parallel, one producing the vertical stream from the digital assets, and the other executing on the panel format.

This makes the vertical stream very readable, well balance and optimized, with none of the clunky artifacts that appear on manga that have been 'converted' for mobile format.

Looking at how there's actually three (!) versions of the series released in parallel, I'd assume they're just throwing money where it matters to cover the most ground.

[0] https://manga.line.me/product/periodic?id=Z0000841

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Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons by rcthompson on Sunday December 11, 2022 @08:08PM (#33949609)

There's a lot of variation in how the vertical scrolling format is used. Some just use it as "one panel at a time" but with a worse UX, while others lean hard into the scrolling format with things like sprawling panels longer than the length of the screen meant to be read while scrolling, among other things.

(It's a bit like asking "how well does putting comics on pages work?" Different comics use the medium very differently.)

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Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons by falcolas on Sunday December 11, 2022 @08:10PM (#33949617)

So, to be a jerk and not give an answer, I'm going to instead suggest picking up V1 of the official Solo Leveling translation. It's under $10, and you can do a side-by-side comparison.

It's also a great manhwa, and supporting the authors and English translations can't be a wrong thing to do. :)

https://books.apple.com/us/book/solo-leveling-vol-1-comic/id...

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Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons by wodenokoto on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:51AM (#33951729)

Isn't that in the other direction? Created for vertical and then later published on paper?

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Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons by falcolas on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:32AM (#33956656)

Yes, that's what I meant; sorry if I mucked it up. :)

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