kaprapWhat's your opinion on manga, manwha, and manhua?
In my opinion, manga read from right to left and are both singular and plural at the same time. But that’s all I know.
Also I never liked Death Note, but I liked Dragon Ball translated into French. And those were the only manga I ever read.
Manga is super easy to read on a whim nowadays, passes the time, you can check out Kotatsu on the web to check out for like 5minutes
Libra00In order, not a fan, what?, and what? Never even heard of the last two, but the manga/ anime craze didn’t really take off until I was in my early 30s, so I never got the appeal.
I have a slightly more positive view of manga because it’s more likely to be hand drawn (March Comes in Like a Lion, Made in Abyss) but one of the things I really don’t like about manwha/manhua is that it’s always (as far as I’ve seen) a continuous strip which means I have to scroll a lot. I have an auto-scroll extension but it makes me dizzy after a while. I do appreciate how each of them have their own unique style, I think that’s pretty cool.
MothraYou mean as terms/words or as media? I can’t say I understand if there is much of a difference between the three, as words. I use “manga”. As media, yeah, it’s cool, some manga is great, some is just mediocre. Like anything else. I’m not a fan of the genre but I really enjoyed some of its titles
I misread titles as ‘titties’
I seperate them because I wanted to know what people think about Manwha, and manhua and manwha is nearly identical in how they are presented (phone, scrolling image, colored comics)
Same as any other form of media.
I like some of it, and I REALLY like a few standouts.
What’re those last two, manhuh?
Manhwa is the Korean term for comic and manhua is the Chinese term. They each have their own style in terms of story telling and even panelling, just like how manga and comic books are distinctly different despite being the same medium.
I wonder if they all three have similar etymologies!
They probably do, considering how much mixing the three countries do across history.
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RobotZap10000The only manga that I have ever read was the sixth part of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, before the anime came out. The other parts I watched earlier in their anime forms. It’s very brutal, violent and gory, but also hilarious. Comparing the anime to part 6, I have to admit that they did the manga justice. I don’t know what the other two words mean, but I guess that they’re related.
Kinda. There’s distinct cultural patterns and variations with manga being Japanese, manhwa being Korean (South, maybe North too, IDK), and manhua being Chinese.
Read enough and you can get a feel for what’s what without it being spelled out.
PassingDuchyAll are fine, just different cliches. Mostly nowadays I read manhwa since it’s easier to read on the phone, a series usually starts with a drop of 20 episodes and then releases weekly and usually at least the guys look kind of adult… (I mainly read trash romance, it’s desperate out here to get characters who don’t look like middle schoolers or something lol)
I mainly read manga when I want an actual story that isn’t just the same 50 plug and play tropes in a blender every time (ie think the mangas I follow right now are Frieren, Heroine Survival and Arte). Manhua I VERY rarely touch. They seem to have the worst machine translations and tbh I really dislike how they implement most of the tropes, just way too petty/childish/violent for me. Only manhua I read are Cheating Men Must Die and Shut Up, Evil Dragon.
Have you tried this?
Latna Saga: Survival of a Sword King
No, I mostly read romance like said. I do read some male iseka, but I’m generally not a fan of the tropes in them. I’ll check it out though, thanks. And yep I know about the name swap with cmmd, I’ve just been reading it for literal years so I remember the first one better.
BTW cheating men must die can also be written as phoenix rising above evil
There are real good stuff every now and then that makes the search worth it
Its like any other form of media/art…some people will like the medium and others won’t.
And just like other mediums there are pieces that are really good and ones that are really bad.
There are pieces that most people not invested in the medium won’t think much of and there are pieces that will resonate with nearly everyone.
Hmm, they overlap a lot. They can be pretty similar, so I don’t really have pros and cons that don’t apply to all of them. Where I draw the line is dianhua. The animations look like some 2008 cutscene from an MMO.
what is dianhua? I play osrs so while I’m sure you meant “07 MMO cutscene” to be negative, I think that sounds awesome haha
I’ve recently started reading a bunch and have mangas and manwhas I like, but the manhua I’ve tried so far was too heavy on the propaganda for my tastes. I’m not sure if that was specific to the one I was reading or if the CCP requires all art to be pro Chinese nationalist and imperialist.
My top mangas:
Hunter x Hunter (keeps going where the anime stopped, though it doesn’t finish the story and I’m not sure it ever will)
Dandadan (holy shit this one is so good, goes way past the one season of anime, which is very faithful to the manga, it’s still ongoing with weekly updates)
My top manwhas:
Hero Killer (I love the characters and art, though the action and story can be difficult to follow)
A Returner’s Magic Should be Special (this one is the first one I found after deciding I wanted to read a completed story and it delivered)
Solo Levelling (this one’s pretty fun, especially early on)
And the manhua I started but gave up on:
Way to be the Evil Emperor (some speculated in the comments that the CCP friendly stuff was to gain some leeway with the rest of the story but it was just too overt for me to enjoy. And the writing isn’t that great outside of the propaganda, too. The art was good though)