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Steventheeunuch
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Twage
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This article smells like bad journalism-- or rather, not journalism. This one professor is the only source, and he never says whether the number of kids who can't read manga is increasing. The whole angle of the story is unsupported, and there are no numbers or even conclusions based on numbers in it at all. But then, if the New York Times is content running articles about trends that aren't happening I guess we can forgive ANN the occasional slip-up.
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Iritscen
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I second the whole speech balloon issue, it often takes three times longer to read a panel while I try to figure out who would be saying those words.
Also, it is humanly impossible to understand what's happening in some panels in Trigun. But that's just one manga. (I'd post an example if I had my scanner available.) What the article fails to define is "read". I'm sure they can read the kanji.... |
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penguintruth
 Posts: 8461 Location: Penguinopolis |
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OH MY GOD. That's exactly the manga I was thinking of in my last post. One of my few gripes about the Trigun manga (besides the occasionally hard to follow action) is the dialogue bubbles. There are a few others like that. |
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Riyousha
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What? I thought Japanese children know how to read manga. Mangas that are in Japanese are easy for Japanese people of all ages to read. This is the strangest theory I've ever seen.
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hanachan01
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Just because some kids can't read manga doesn't mean the manga industries on the decline. More kids can read manga than can't.
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Ashen Phoenix
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Yeah. All the ones I read still have that. lol I think it's funny how people can be so critical of other countries, and yet, WE, here in the U.A., have one of the lowest literary rates of all. Not that I'm saying we're all stupid or book-hating retards. My thinking is that: if you give a child something they actually WANT to read or find INTERSTING... then they'll read it happily. It was the same for me; if I read a book I don't like, I'll have trouble finishing it. If it's something I enjoy (like manga) then it's far easier for me to read it all the way through. 
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LydiaDianne
 Posts: 5633 Location: Southern California |
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Gee, something that kids enjoy! reading. What a novel (pardon the pun) idea! That may explain why J.K. Rowling is doing so well on the bestseller lists and library requests rather than Dickens and Bronte. 
I HATED reading the "classics" in High School. Just hated it. I LOVE to read, don't get me wrong there. But, sometimes the "classics" are a bit hard to swallow. It's just hard to take 2 or 3 pages describing what the horse and carriage looked like or the food on the table. That and the teachers wanting you to understand the "meaning" of the food on the table or the "meaning" of the horse and carriage. Most of the time the "meaning" was that it was time to eat or that someone was going somewhere not the "waste of natural resources" or "the abuse of power." Note: I didn't list Shakespeare in with the classics - he's meant to be SEEN not read (not that many teachers get that concept.**apologies to the teachers on this forum** and he's fairly straightforward in his plays, so when you see them, you can understand them more than if you just read them. |
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