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→Manga in the US: expanded & retitled section - hope this is OK
Topics range from classical manga stories of space, super heroes, and robots to stories of very adult focused high school memories (Honey and Clover), slapstick high school comedies. There is even a manga about Bread Making (Yakitate Japan), [[Shogi|Japanese Chess]] (Shion no Ou), and microbes (Moyshimon).
Topics range from classical manga stories of space, super heroes, and robots to stories of very adult focused high school memories (Honey and Clover), slapstick high school comedies. There is even a manga about Bread Making (Yakitate Japan), [[Shogi|Japanese Chess]] (Shion no Ou), and microbes (Moyshimon).
==Manga in the US==
==Manga in English==
Manga has become popular in the US, and manga about almost anything can be found.
Manga has become popular in the [[United States]] and other English-speaking countries, and manga about almost anything can be found.
English-language manga are often printed in the original Japanese format. This means that many manga read from right to left, unlike American comics, which can be confusing to those not used to it. This is done primarily to preserve the artwork from distortion by mirroring the pictures to create a western left to right orientation.
Some manga translations, especially early ones from the 1980s and 1990s, were "flopped", meaning that the artwork was reversed, in order to read from left to right like a conventional English-language comic. However, this can cause continuity problems. For example, a right-handed character appears left-handed in a flopped manga. In recent years, as American interest in manga and anime has grown, it has become more conventional to present manga in the original right-to-left format.
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