Bible Manga

forgotenmemory · (#1 (**permalink**))

THE FIRST ENGLISH MANGA ADAPTATION OF THE BIBLE

It's weird, yet interesting. Would you read it?

Kakashi · (#2 (**permalink**))

maybe, but I'd read the actual Bible before I read the manga version.

Tenchu · (#3 (**permalink**))

That's dumb.

MMM · (#4 (**permalink**))

Just to be clear, the "author"/artist, Siku is not Japanese, but is a Englishman with roots in Nigeria.

There is nothing "manga" about "The Manga Bible". It is the bible in visual form (though only selected stories).

If you want to read the Bible in graphic form, I would recommend this:

http://www.dangerousminds.net/index....e_crumb_bible/

Payne222 · (#5 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by MMM

Just to be clear, the "author"/artist, Siku is not Japanese, but is a Englishman with roots in Nigeria.

There is nothing "manga" about "The Manga Bible". It is the bible in visual form (though only selected stories).

If you want to read the Bible in graphic form, I would recommend this:

http://www.dangerousminds.net/index....e_crumb_bible/

Doesn't "manga" mean comic? Not specifically Japanese comics?

MMM · (#6 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Payne222

Doesn't "manga" mean comic? Not specifically Japanese comics?

Considering it is a book written in English by an Englishman, and has nothing to do with Japanese culture, it makes as much sense to call it "The Manga Bible" as it does to call it "The Manhua Bible" or "The Manhwa Bible".

SleepAddict · (#7 (**permalink**))

Interesting but no, I'll stick to messianic torah.

Mortry · (#8 (**permalink**))

Awesome!

I'd totally read it, although I don't believe the stories in it...xD

yuriyuri · (#9 (**permalink**))

Quote:

Originally Posted by MMM

Considering it is a book written in English by an Englishman, and has nothing to do with Japanese culture, it makes as much sense to call it "The Manga Bible" as it does to call it "The Manhua Bible" or "The Manhwa Bible".

Some people call things manga not by who drew/wrote the piece in question, or even by the language it is written in, but by the general art style.
Going by that it does make sense to call it manga.
And since we all know language is a living thing there is no denying that this is quite a wide spread usage in English now.
(At least, I hear it used like this all the time)

It may be technically incorrect but language isn't produced by dictionaries and grammar rules etc. so maybe this is in actual fact a new correct usage that people are just going that have to get used to, like it or not.

Razgriz · (#10 (**permalink**))

Main power of the Bible is in words since they can be explained in many different ways - they are so called parables. Thats why trying to turn those words into comic is just devaluation.