One is Japanese comics, the other two sound like a related.
Yeah, the two remaining are usually vertical scrolling colored comics that are read in a similar way to manga, but on phones instead.
Manhua and manwha is basically the same. Their meaning is basically the same as manga. Maybe you would know it better as webtoons
Are you asking country specific based on the transliterations? I feel manga can be fun but also quite goofy. Less experience with the others. The Korean ones I see in the library seem underdeveloped and the Chinese ones somewhat better
Respect it as art and entertainment people like. Personally, could not care less.
All three are 90% trash, 8% good for wasting braincells and 2% among the best in the format of graphic novel.
That being said the manhua style of vertical scrolling to read is better than any other format for vertical screen devices. After getting used to it (and getting a reader than can cache fast enough to keep up) reading manga and ebooks just feels incredibly clunky and unintuitive.
That being said the monetary schemes for manhua/hwa are sometimes ridiculously predatory. If you want to read ethically you better have some serious money, especially for longer series with shorter chapters.
In the format of a visual novel? Examples?
Wrong wording, graphic novel is what I meant, the best manhuas and mangas are as good as the best western and south American style comics. I was trying to lump them all together in one phrase and forgot visual novels were a thing.
Mainly due to trauma from
Euphoria and starless
*manhwa
I'm intrigued by the differences in the media honestly. Isn't it odd that manga is practically always black and white? There must be next to no demand for colour manga. Meanwhile, I'm most familiar with manhwa as vertically scrolling colour comics, and manhua similar with a bit different conventions. Regarding manhua, I like that this group posts comics with same-sex relations for both men and women. That's pretty cash money. Shame Tan Jiu isn't allowed to post anymore.
Currently reading 19 Days which that group either translated or made, and it's been pretty good, thanks for the shout-out
Yeah, I wonder how that happened, why did manga never make it to phones as scrolling comics just like manhwa and manhua?
Either way, I enjoy manhwa and manhua, especially phoenix rise above evil, hero killer and the knight only lives today, Mangas are difficult to read on phones so I never really gave them a try funnily enough.
I really like manchego...
What are the differences? I only know Manga
Same word pronounced differently in three languages.
Just finished reading Dungeon Meshi, good stuff
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I've read plenty of manga, so I'm more familiar with them and how I feel is definitely dependent on the writing and art style. Bakuman (from the creators of Death Note)? Love it for the art style and story. I also love how it shows you how the mangaka industry works to a degree, from the standpoint of close to 2 decades ago now at least. Currently don't have a manga series in my collection I don't like, so can't say anything about one I dislike currently.
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I have not read any manwha besides a series I have the first 2 books of called Zero/Six. I don't really care for the whole webtoons thing since I'd rather collect a physical copy of a series for something of similar style to a manga.
Side note: I have reservations about continuing to read Zero/Six considering I just looked at volume 1 to confirm something and I was right when thinking I remembered Hitler being in the book. He's literally the main characters German teacher and within the first page we see him he's literally called Hitler (looks exactly like him too) and does a Nazi salute after beating a students ass with a wooden stick(?). I get the book was originally published in the 90s and translated in the mid-2000s, but that's definitely a pretty big red flag for me on an otherwise pretty good series.
- Manhua is the one I'd say I definitely have the absolute least experience with. Closest I have is finding some translated Fei Ren Zai 4 panel manhua online. Props to the creators of that manhua and the donghua because I like them for some of the comedy and random short skits. Not much else to say.
Yeah, if physical books are your thing manga is 100% your best choice, manwha adapted to books look awkward as fuck, see 'sweet home' as an example
Manwha is best experienced on a phone.
Had to look that one up, and it brought back memories of seeing ads for that specific one being used to advertise Webtoons.
The ads definitely made it seem like it was supposed to be read in app so they could do panels with a little animation in some panels here and there, so if that's how they're meant to be viewed, that would 100% be awkward for a physical adaptation.
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I read online - translated ones.
My only note is that if a comic is Chinese origin, the story telling is usually full of holes, like they skipped 5-6 panels that other type of mangas would had. So it could be annoying for the readers who are not used to it. (I honestly dislike it, so I avoid them.)Manhua seem to be very crowded with competitors leading to some only focusing on niches and abandoning everything else
A manhua I've been reading is 48 hours a day. Title intrigued me, so I gave it a try.
Spoiler alert: He was given an extra 24 hours a day, but nothing comes from it. the story was where I was drawn in, because there was a manwha that I used to read (before it got canned) that used the same premise
This shows that the Chinese manhua market is extremely condensed, and it's no wonder why it would have bad content as a result when everyone attempts to compete...
Honestly I thought it was because of cultural differences in the way stories are told.
I would think if they are spending time to create something they would actually want to capture the audience instead of making subpar stuff. Especially if they decide to translate them to other languages....
I'm not really into them. I bought some in high school, back when I still actively watched anime but it just seemed to expensive to continue buying them. I know that I can read them online and I do sometimes but I feel bad for not supporting the creators.
Manga can be really good if you dont look what big names like shonen jump have to offer. Some more dark mangakas are really good and touch topics that other people have fear to touch or are too weird to they culture, like, idk "aku no hana", "onani master Kurosawa" or "bokura no hentai"
when reading, I either need images or voices, so rather than reading books I generally pick up audio books or comics.
The few times I read an actual book I make myself a graphical representation, I have a few folders on obsidian with pictures to help me visualise and remember stuff, it helps.
I prefer manga because usually* it's longer per chapter and I'd like to read left to right then up and down but I do like all and read all.
Nothing against it, but I simply prefer watching the anime.
Though I really enjoyed the Chrono Crusade manga.
