Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons
by ahmadmijot on Sunday December 11, 2022 @11:03PM
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For (at least within scanlation scene) english usage:
Manga is comic originated from Japan
Manhwa is comic originated from Korea
Manhua is comic originated from China
Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons
by orthoxerox on Monday December 12, 2022 @04:12AM
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"Tank is an armored vehicle originated in the UK, char d'assaut is an armored vehicle originated in France, Panzer is an armored vehicle originated in Germany." It's fine to call them all "tanks" and it's fine to call all East Asian comics "comics" or even "manga".
Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons
by anotherman554 on Monday December 12, 2022 @09:13AM
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I can see the logic of calling east asian comics "comics". But why would an English speaker use a Japanese term, "manga" to refer to all east Asia comics?
Re:Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons
by Ruthalas on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:20AM
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This is also what I have seen in other online communities that aggregate such works.
I don't know about English usage, but in Korean these are different concepts. "Manhwa" (만화, maan-hwaa) means "comics", usually in print. The Korean word for an online comic is "webtoon" (웹툰, ooeb-toon). This is the usage, for example, on Naver: NAVER 웹툰 is the title of https://comic.naver.com. Of course the webtoons borrow a lot from manhwa style, but one buys/rents manhwa at a store and reads webtoons on the subway. So they are different concepts and "webtoon" is the proper Korean term for this phenomenon.