Sight in japanese

[MMM]

Originally Posted by chryuop

Moreover Saito is also a Japanese name, so they might not thing about Sight and just take it as Saito....am I wrong?

Very good point.

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by MMM

Very good point.

But I highly doubt the target audience can even speak Japanese, though, so I doubt this matters.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

But I highly doubt the target audience can even speak Japanese, though, so I doubt this matters.

Then they also will not get "sight" from "Saito".

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by MMM

Then they also will not get "sight" from "Saito".

Which is why I sort-of ridiculed OP as politely as I could.

[jasonchua]

good luck with your manga

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by jasonchua

good luck with your manga

Raises a very good point: What is "manga" as used in the English language? Can something in English written by someone who can't speak Japanese qualify as manga?

If someone calling it "manga" makes it manga, can I paint a cubist painting and call it romanticism or post-modernism?

It raises linguistic quandries that expose me as something of a descriptivist and something of a prescriptivist!

[chryuop]

What is a manga?
I mean, I had a collection of over 500 manga and I read some walt disney comics as well and I didn't know it actually exists a difference. I have always treated a manga as a comic made in Japan...thus I agree with kyle that should be called comic book since not made in Japan.

[Columbine]

Originally Posted by chryuop

What is a manga?
I mean, I had a collection of over 500 manga and I read some walt disney comics as well and I didn't know it actually exists a difference. I have always treated a manga as a comic made in Japan...thus I agree with kyle that should be called comic book since not made in Japan.

Surely it's a stylistic difference? I don't know; to me manga just look and feel categorically different to 'comic books' of the spiderman or beano ilk. Also manga can be for adults as well as children whereas comics to me are for children pretty much exclusively. Then again I also differentiate between 'western' and 'asian' manga as well. :/

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by Columbine

Surely it's a stylistic difference? I don't know; to me manga just look and feel categorically different to 'comic books' of the spiderman or beano ilk. Also manga can be for adults as well as children whereas comics to me are for children pretty much exclusively. Then again I also differentiate between 'western' and 'asian' manga as well. :/

But there are a number of American comics in the style of manga (big eyes, sound effects Japanese-stype, etc.). Yet we wouldn't call this "manga." See, e.g., Runaways. Heck, even X-Men has done it for years.

Plus, there is not a uniform Japanese style of comics, either, unless you mean "black and white, released weekly under a single person's name (usually)."

And you think "comics" is for kids? Does that include the Spiderman you refer to? There are plenty of comics for adults in Japan and in the US.

Heck, Marmaduke is a cartoon or comic strip, and there's no way you could consider that boring, awful crap as anything other than a comic for old people who mope around in slippers.

[AichiAlex]

Originally Posted by chryuop

Moreover Saito is also a Japanese name, so they might not thing about Sight and just take it as Saito....am I wrong?

lol that's a good point... but since it's in katakana i doubt this'll happen.