How Manga Was Translated for America
www.nytimes.com
The wildly popular Japanese genre is now published close to its original form in the United States. That wasn’t always the case.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I just went back and reread akira, the English head-on version. There’s sections where they describe the process for translating and reversing the original for l-t-r reading, in English. Pretty cool