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One Flew The Cuckoos Nest
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 Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:14 pm
There are alot of people who keep arguing about Manga being considered a book or not. What is your oppinion? I think that manga should be considered a book.
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:58 pm
I've never really read any manga. I guess it really depends on your definition of a book, right?
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:50 pm
I personally consider them books, because they have characters, plot, and setting. I rather like my mangas thank you very much. You've just been derped.
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:02 am
Graphic novels are definitely books, both manga and western comics. Just because their main mode of communication is pictures aided by words instead of purely words doesn't mean they're somehow less. The can still have well developed characters, deep plots, and profound ideas in them. Just like regular books, they run the gamut from fluff to ideas that make you think and grip your mind. I don't see how some people can consider brain candy like Twilight to be a book but declare things like V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Sandman, and Ghost in the Shell to not be books simply because they use pictures in addition to words to convey their story and ideas.
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:42 am
Good point, Infinity Outlaw.
Manga is bound like a book, right? The plots are really deep and the drawings are detailed. At one of my local libraries, they have a ceiling to floor shelf filled with manga. I have no idea where they got it all but there are always people sitting by that shelf, reading.
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:05 pm
Some novels even have pictures in them from time to time.
I find manga should be considered books, and very good ones.
They help you picture the scene the way the writer wishes you to see his/her vision.
A lot of manga have awesome plots as well, like Ghost in a Shell, as was mentioned, and Gundam Wing for instance.
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 3:43 pm
I consider them books. A lot of them have well written dialogue (and some of them even more text than that) and well thought out stories and characters. You have to read them and comprehend what you are reading. Why else would comics be called comic BOOKS? Manga is just the Japanese comic book.
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:58 am
Infinity Outlaw Graphic novels are definitely books, both manga and western comics. Just because their main mode of communication is pictures aided by words instead of purely words doesn't mean they're somehow less. The can still have well developed characters, deep plots, and profound ideas in them. Just like regular books, they run the gamut from fluff to ideas that make you think and grip your mind. I don't see how some people can consider brain candy like Twilight to be a book but declare things like V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Sandman, and Ghost in the Shell to not be books simply because they use pictures in addition to words to convey their story and ideas.
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 4:05 pm
I definitely feel manga are books.
I have severe problems with districts that don't allow children to read manga or comics (graphic novel length) during silent reading. If the child is excited to read, don't condemn their reading material. Magazines I can understand not being allowed.
We should be fostering excitement about reading, even as the format and delivery of books changes.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:08 pm
It's a comic placed within the structure of a book. So, yes, it's a comic book. Is it a novel? No. It's hardly a question at all. If I were a teacher and a child asked me if reading manga counted towards their book reading, I would tell them no and pick up something without pictures and word boxes to hold their hand. It's no substitute for proper reading. Just bare dialogue and pictures. Harsh, I know, and I'm not against manga, but I can't take it seriously.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:23 pm
It's a comic book. I love comics and sometimes I read manga but if I set a goal of reading 50 books or something I wouldn't count manga/comics because they take a fraction of the time a novel would take to get through and they're like 90% pictures.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 7:05 am
Manga is merely a different genre of book combining two mediums. Hell, if artists can use two mediums at once, why can't writers? Besides that, there is a reason they named them graphic novels, no?
However, I feel that the challenge of reading a graphic novel does not compete with the challenge of reading a novel. Quite simply, I would not recommend doing a book report on a manga. I am sure that your teacher would recommend something else, unless you offered some form of challenge for the book report in itself. (I have had the fortune to have had a very flexible teacher that allowed me to reach out and 'reinvent' a book report using technology, art, poetry, etc.)
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