Forum - View topicNEWS: Japanese Firm Offers to Turn Company Manuals into Manga
|
Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | ||
|---|---|---|---|
darksharingan
 Posts: 113 |
|
||
|
Wow, you'd have to be pretty dumb, unless you're operating a big complex machine and your life depended on doing it right, then a manga may be useful.....wait? I dunno what I'm talking about.
Good point: Easy to underatand Bad point: You might possibally be stupid. |
|||
|
|||
Asrialys
 Posts: 1160 |
|
||
|
Stupid or not, if done well, a person could learn easier from this if they're visual learners.
And I guess this provides more jobs for manga artists who need work... |
|||
|
|||
egoist
 Posts: 7762 |
|
||
|
An easy and entertaining way to read a manual for those people [like me] who gets bored to death after 10 seconds reading anything composed of text only.
For heavy machines handling manuals this is definitely good news, since I've read one before and couldn't get through page 1. |
|||
|
|||
PingSoni
 Subscriber Posts: 195 Location: Lansing MI |
|
||
|
This is cool. I used to work as a technical writer back in the day when computer equipment and software came with printed manuals. A lot of the "get started quickly" inserts that are common now could be done this way.
|
|||
|
|||
Ktimene's Lover
 Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
|
||
|
So, is the manga equivalent of "Company Manuals For Dummies" or "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Company Manuals"? Interesting concept nonetheless. I believe I still have my company manual for Home Depot. I wish they had a manga adaptation of that.
|
|||
|
|||
Rolando_jose
 Posts: 240 Location: Ahhhh it's vacation time again! |
|
||
|
It will be something like the "Manga guide series"
Here, check it out --> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593271972/ref=s9_simz_gw_s9_p14_t1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=0PRT4YGGK2GHRJZTANVZ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470939291&pf_rd_i=507846 |
|||
|
|||
Moomintroll
 Posts: 1600 Location: Nottingham (UK) |
|
||
It's not a great idea to make an elementary spelling mistake (well, two actually but I'm guessing the first one was a typo) in the very post in which you accuse other people of being too stupid to understand prose. |
|||
|
|||
|
PMDR
Posts: 140 |
|
||
|
I dunno.
I've already seen a number of very technical product manuals come from Japan which use manga-like characters to illustrate certain steps. It usually results in confusion about what the HECK the character is trying to demonstrate, which is not helped by often shaky translations. I'm used to manga. Illustrations don't bother me, but most of the time they don't help too much and for other non-manga-savvy users trying to deal with the manuals, they become a distraction from learning. Yes of course this sort of full manga manual is unlikely to become a standard for export so no need to worry. I know that. On the flip side, IKEA started redoing all their product instructions to eliminate the use of words. 100 percent illustrations are now the norm because no words means they don't have to pay for writing it out or pay for translations into a hundred languages and printing that many different versions. One universal illustration manual does it all. In theory. |
|||
|
|||
|
Ktimene's Lover
Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
|
||
|
I wonder how they determine which companies get manga manuals. If they did this for how to be animator at some major American animation studio, I think that would go well for moderator Cloe.
|
|||
|
|||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group