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** Oh, I get it! The audience isn't English-speakers, it's English-speaking ''manga'' readers.
** I've always thought it was sheer weeaboo-ness. I don't buy the "it's a complete manga drawn in manga-style with manga-plots and manga-stereotypes and Japanese names and so on" because the MAIN reason for manga to be read right-to-left is because of the Japanese writing system, which, [[Captain Obvious|for some reason]], isn't copied by the mangas in English language. Anyway, the main elements of the manga "style" lie more in narrative than in drawing style (so much so that manga offers a plethora of styles and realism levels in their art), and ''that'' is something most amateur manga artists I know seem to completely ignore. So they're mostly just [[Animesque]] western comics.
** Most non-Japanese people have grown up seeing sequential stuff reading left-to-right. It imprints itself in your consciousness and affects the way you think about blocking the page layouts and how the characters relate to each other. Every comic I've seen where non-Japanese tried to do it Japanese style just felt awkward, like someone was looking in the mirror above the page while drawing it. And throw on western artists using Japanese pseudonyms and it comes back to what the poster above this said.
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