MDN presents 'Manglish - Manga in English'

Mainichi Daily News writes "Japan's leading English news site revolutionizes manga -- Manga lovers rejoice! A never-seen-before approach to manga made its debut on the Mainichi Daily News on Monday, July 3, 2006. Manglish takes some of Japan's hottest young manga talents -- showcased in the Mainichi's MangaTown site -- and places their creations on the MDN in their original Japanese format. However, cool thing is that while it appears on the site in the original Japanese, but if you run your mouse over it you get the translation in English.

Comments

Translation Quality?

[fusto99]

LOOK! Over there! It's GODZILLA!!

Re:Right to left...

[the_doctor_23]

Seriously, are the frames of Japanese comics meant to be read right to left? Does the language work that way too? (I know Arabic and some others are like that...) For some reason, (although it should) it surprises me if that's the case.

Yes, Japanese manga is read from right to left and back to front.
The classic writing system consists of columns that are read from top to bottom, beginning with the rightmost and moving to the left while the modern writing system uses the western style of lines and is read from left to right.