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it’s great that this forces more manga to move to the web. where’s my Netflix for manga Japan? anecdotally, on a JAL flight between Tokyo and London (for which
by kmlx 8y ago
it’s great that this forces more manga to move to the web. where’s my Netflix for manga Japan?
anecdotally, on a JAL flight between Tokyo and London (for which Russia taxes every passenger individually, story for another time), I saw a bunch of manga on the in-flight entertainment system, and people were actually using it to read. cooler still, seeing both the parents and their children reading different manga.
- intertextuality 8y agoIf someone did a subscription service for manga with quality translations (and coloring) they'd make a killing, probably.
- kmlx 8y agothe problem is the medium: manga are just not made for digital consumption. they’re brilliant for analog thou. i’ve tried a couple of these services, but they were quite subpar.
- laurus 8y agoI don't see how reading manga on an E-ink ereader, with one page filling the screen and "turning" pages by pressing the right side, is fundamentally different from reading it in "analog" (paper) form. I wouldn't want to read it on a non E-ink screen, or have to scroll within a single page though.
- intertextuality 8y agoParent probably was referring to reading it on a laptop or similar, which many people do. (I also read it this way). I use the SimpleComic reader on OSX, first removing the menu and then fullscreening it. This requires me to download the manga beforehand. It works for me since I don't read that much manga. Now that I have an ipad I wonder how well it could work.
- slightwinder 8y agoYeah, that's not true at all. Manga on a 8-10 inch-tablet can be far superiour to the poor paper manga are usually sold at. Though it's true that it also depends on the reading-app/service.
- intertextuality 8y agoDo you know if there's an ipad app that easily lets you upload manga via zip files?
- slightwinder 8y agoSorry, I 'don't use iOS. I have an Android-Tablet. But short search says "Manga Storm CBR" is according to your demand. Search for cbr, which is the common fileformat for comic-archives. You can also widen the search and search for comic-apps or reader-apps in general. Manga seems to be often a bit to specific in those cases.