[0:00] winter 2021 had a huge impact on anime
[0:03] as a whole
[0:04] especially making it become more
[0:06] mainstream now
[0:08] if that's a bad or good thing we won't
[0:10] get into today
[0:11] but one blatant fact is that more people
[0:14] are buying manga than ever
[0:16] and for those new readers being used to
[0:18] reading from left to right
[0:20] manga is read from right to left with
[0:22] many other rules
[0:23] today i'm gonna tell you how to read
[0:25] your favorite manga correctly so you
[0:26] don't look like a total idiot
[0:28] and it's actually enjoyable to read as
[0:30] always if you like this video
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[0:40] that's it for me and enjoy the video
[0:44] to begin we have this little chart now
[0:47] this might look simple
[0:48] but i'll make it even more simple for
[0:50] you to understand
[0:52] as you can see it starts off one from
[0:55] the right
[0:56] two then it goes down a row three then
[0:59] it goes to the little boxes
[1:00] four five six seven
[1:04] now this is pretty straightforward and
[1:06] you're probably like
[1:07] why do you need to explain this but yes
[1:10] this is because it goes
[1:11] right to left now the only part where i
[1:14] could see
[1:15] you'll be a little bit confused about is
[1:18] a four and five
[1:20] after that big row of three you will go
[1:23] down to four and five
[1:24] because it's the first one underneath it
[1:26] it's just like reading a book
[1:28] when you're reading left to right you
[1:30] don't skip a line and then go down to
[1:32] the next one
[1:32] you always go down to the one right
[1:34] underneath it
[1:36] so that's where you go four or five
[1:38] because they're next to each other
[1:40] six seven one thing i always like to do
[1:44] whenever i'm confused is if you see four
[1:47] and five
[1:47] you're like wait a second do i read four
[1:49] and then go to six
[1:51] no you don't do that because if you look
[1:53] at six that long box
[1:55] takes up the whole space or it goes
[1:57] practically around
[1:58] the width of four and five
[2:02] so i that's how i say you remember it
[2:04] but
[2:05] again always start with the little boxes
[2:08] and if
[2:08] it's like that go down and then finally
[2:11] go
[2:12] over to the left here's another simple
[2:15] graph
[2:16] again you go one two three four
[2:19] as you can see but then here's the
[2:23] problem where many people mess up on
[2:25] after five you see six and seven
[2:28] many people would go six and then eight
[2:31] now this is not the case because
[2:34] i think the best way to describe it is
[2:36] if there's two
[2:38] images or two panels right next to each
[2:40] other
[2:41] just go straight right to left if
[2:43] they're right next to each other
[2:45] but in this case they are right next to
[2:47] each other so again you would go
[2:50] right to left but then you go eight
[2:52] because you have to
[2:53] apply the same rule of top to bottom
[2:57] as an example we can use the first page
[3:00] from demon slayer
[3:01] you probably already know that you would
[3:03] start with panel number one
[3:06] and then two now you would not go two
[3:09] to the next panel to the left you would
[3:11] go two three
[3:12] or the panel right underneath it because
[3:15] it's the same rule
[3:16] top to bottom when they're inside the
[3:18] same row
[3:19] so when they're inside the same row just
[3:21] go along with it either top to bottom or
[3:23] right to left it should be pretty
[3:24] self-explanatory when you're reading
[3:27] after you go two three then you can
[3:30] finally go over left
[3:32] to your big brother or four here's a
[3:35] very simple one
[3:36] all you do is go one two three four
[3:40] five six this one is straightforward
[3:42] again right left
[3:44] top bottom those rules will just make
[3:46] you glide through these pages
[3:49] now this one might look a little hard
[3:51] but as long as you use
[3:53] the two rules that i explained you
[3:54] should be fine you start with our life
[3:57] isn't easy
[3:58] or one because it's on the complete
[4:00] right
[4:01] and it practically at the top of the
[4:02] page then
[4:04] you go to two three four
[4:07] because those things use a top to bottom
[4:10] rule
[4:11] and as you can see those things are
[4:12] practically inside the same line
[4:14] even though they are separated panels so
[4:16] you read them
[4:17] just down and also this one's pretty
[4:19] easy because there's no picture to the
[4:21] left of it
[4:22] but again one two three four
[4:25] and then five the one at the bottom
[4:28] now we have a panel from naruto this one
[4:30] should also be pretty easy
[4:32] but again right to left top to bottom
[4:36] you would start with one two three four
[4:40] and then five six seven because again
[4:44] six and seven are inside the same row or
[4:46] they're practically straight
[4:48] from each other so that's why you go top
[4:50] to bottom
[4:51] six seven and then you know naruto on
[4:54] eight
[4:56] here's our last example and this i'm
[4:58] showing this because
[5:00] it has that big picture in the
[5:01] background you would start with the big
[5:03] picture in the graph background
[5:05] then use a top to bottom rule to go the
[5:08] pictures that
[5:09] are taking up the background so it would
[5:11] go
[5:12] one two three and then
[5:16] four five six again this one should be
[5:20] fairly simple
[5:20] but i just wanted to put it in there
[5:22] just in case you're confused
[5:25] here's an example that we're going to be
[5:27] using as a quiz
[5:28] pause the video here and try and scout
[5:30] out what you think would be the order of
[5:32] this
[5:35] now that you have that done it would go
[5:37] one
[5:38] two three four five six
[5:41] it would be two three four because of
[5:43] the top to bottom rule
[5:45] and i know i've been saying this so much
[5:47] but again this is very important to
[5:49] understand and it's very important to
[5:51] understand that there's practically two
[5:53] rules that will
[5:55] practically get you through reading
[5:56] manga the right to left rule
[5:58] and the top to bottom rule and not to
[6:01] mention
[6:02] that again if there's specific panels or
[6:04] separate panels
[6:05] inside a row then you should read them
[6:08] in a row with one of those rules
[6:11] overall the more manga you read the
[6:13] better you'll get at it
[6:15] so as long as you just keep on reading
[6:17] and keep on practicing
[6:18] you'll be reading it like it's a regular
[6:20] book i hope this helped you
[6:23] and i hope to see you in the next one