Two publishers in the US are planning to release the "Witchblade" manga next year.
Bandai will be releasing the original black and white version.
Top Cow will be releasing a flipped version (opens like a American book instead of a Japanese book), with added color.
I thought it was interesting that they will be releasing two versions of the same manga, and it will be interesting to see which one sells more. I am guessing the colored and flipped version will sell more though.
Your thoughts? And what do you think about flipped manga?
hmm...I haven't read flipped manga. So I don't know whether there are some problems or not.
I think if flipped manga catch the manga's context well, it may be not a big problem.
As for the adding color thing, it is much more important for me.
Colored manga often loses its original...um...筆感(pen-touch?), so usually I don't like the colored manga.
I have joined some anime forum(not Japanese one), and I have seen many colored pic made by some menbers called "colourer". They usually vanished the "筆感". So I would dislike the flipped and colored manga, if they are colored in that way.
It seems foreigners like color manga better than b&w one...
The only problem I have seen with flipped manga is that everything right handed becomes left handed, and few of the characters look different when flipped.
I agree that adding color is usually a bad idea and many companies have seemed to abandon this technique.
It may seem like non Japanese people like colored and flipped manga, but there are many times that it backfires and fans demand a unedited version.