5548: Japanfield v2.5
Japanfield v2.5 |
Made by: Redgreen |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip essentially takes 3618: Japanfield v2 and re-stacks the panels so that it's properly rendered in the fashion of a Japanese vertical comic strip. Japanese is typically read right-to-left and top-to-bottom, from a western standpoint backward horizontally but not vertically; if one were to take two versions of the same manga volume, one flipped to make more sense to read in western style and one published in its original Japanese-style orientation (a good example would be Pokémon Adventures volume 1 in both its flipped 2000 and unflipped 2009 North American versions), it can be easily observed that the work only needed to be flipped on one axis (horizontal) to make sense to westerners, as the vertical axis would need to be left alone to serve that same audience.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
I read Cdudeiscool's take on "Japanfield" and thought that it was bizarre that it was a bottom-to-top comic. The Japanese don't read vertical strips that way, usually unless they backtrack them! I made* a properly-structured Japanese-style Garfield comic strip so that I could relieve myself of my wrong-reading-order stress.
*Really, all I did was swap the first and last panels, but still.
Original strip: 1990-12-10.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{This comic is meant to be read from top to bottom, like a yonkoma manga strip, though since this strip has three panels instead of four, it would probably be a sankoma}
{Jon and Garfield are driving down a one-way road in the car}
{Jon notices Garfield is sticking his head out the window with his eyes closed, and does that too}
{A Japanese stop sign strikes his face}