How do you read the panels?
Do you go with the natural flow? Or do you examine the art first, and then read the corresponding bubbles?
How do you read the panels?
Michael Walker
Henry Turner
Original
Charles Sanders
I try not to analyze too much. First one is usually how I read.
Kevin Rivera
Bottom.
Grayson Phillips
Top. A good natural flow is an art in itself.
Jayden Bell
Lucas James
always prioritize whatever is in top right corner then prioritize information organized in the panel from top to bottom and then right to left
apply the same approach to panels on a page
sometimes in the unlikely case a manga artist will structure the panel or page by prioritizing right to left before top to bottom, but that is very rare
Brandon Myers
Art, then speech bubbles but sometimes I just read only the text and barely process the image
Thomas Moore
got me good
Blake Watson
Do you first click on the spoiler text, or on the spoiler picture?
Jace Long
I don't have a preference or pattern, in this case I clicked on the picture first.
Nathaniel Carter
Whenever I see spoiler text I press ctrl+a. I have spoiler images turned off.
Adam Carter
> 1421514973130.png
A missed opportunity.
Connor Nguyen
Julian Diaz
Lincoln Ward
Text, most of the time
Gabriel Thomas
Christopher Baker
>big picture glance at page
>zero in on right top most panel
>descend
Michael Collins
Nice graph
Liam Hill
>reading anime
Joshua James
Was waiting for that one
Gavin Green
The panel composition is art on itself, a good mangaka will make you have exactly the flow they want you to have through the page, if you didn't that means the artist simply sucks.
Leo Parker
>watching comics years if not decades after the original release
???
Grayson Jones
Is 6 her breasts or her armpits?
Kayden Lopez
Hudson Sanders
Why? Do you hate being surprised?
Aaron Young
This. If you know what you're doing, everything will flow naturally.
Joshua Reed
Taste filter
You've failed it
Kayden Morgan
Ehh, I don't think Nakaba is the best example. Sometimes he gets it right, but usually his chapters are overcrowded messes that look like garbage and are terrible to follow.
Colton Evans
>posts an actual trash flow
Wew, why are you allowed to discuss this in the first place?
Anthony Gomez
Just passing by to say this is the best thread on Yea Forums I've seen for quiet some time. Makes me sick how far we done fell.
Andrew Bell
Text
Chase Collins
The top one, that's how i read it.
Austin Anderson
>click on the spoiler text
What?
Tyler Stewart
The text opens it in a new tab, so I click on the picture so I can stay on one tab.
Gabriel White
>clicking on the picture
nigga I have open on hover
Evan Adams
Dammit what was the name of this series again? I remember reading a bunch of it when it was dumped on Yea Forums
Nathan Young
>t. pic related
Thomas Brooks
bottom
Image
Isaiah Murphy
>are terrible to follow.
Brainlet? Nakabas paneling is usually great.
James Martinez
Picture. I don't care what you have to say
Aiden Moore
Image on phone, text on computer.
James Moore
Joshikousei no Mudadzukai
Isaiah Baker
Ayden Rivera
picture
Parker Lee
no
Jonathan Smith
Cooper Price
Nathaniel Sullivan
I just look at the pretty pictures.
Jaxson Martin
Grayson Anderson
Text, but often I don't actually read it properly at the first time.
Ryan Williams
A single panel is too macro, paneling incoporates the entire page. You also have to understand that the japanese text is almost always read vertically RtL and will not impede the flow unlike reading english text. Sound effects are read LtR but are usually typeset vertically or horizantally at an angle and can help guide the eye to another panel.
Connor Hughes
Jayden Stewart
Another important thing to remember is that manga is first and foremost a physical medium. Artists will try to optimise paneling and spreads for a left to right double page format. The only time you would disregard that is if it was initially published as a webmanga or in those rare cases of 3+ page spreads.
Anthony Williams
Angel Barnes
That's probably the ideal way to read.
Thomas Peterson
Strictly right to left unless it's a full art page.