What does /a/ think about horror manga?
>>156944149
>mangareader
They're mostly derivative of a core set of horror mangaka from decades ago with a few running devices. That being said, I really enjoy them. I find them generally easy reading.
>>156944797Shit I didn't notice that.Fuan no Tane's the only one I've read, read all 3 volumes tonight in one sitting. Who else stands out in terms of this kind of horror? I really liked these short-stories having to do with exaggerating common paranoia.
is really that hard for people to edit pages with photoshop? come on what the fuck is that white rectangle on the baloon? fucking use photoshop
>>156945244
probably the cleaner is an amateur that doesn't know how to clean, level and denoise badly scanned raws
>>156944149
>being scared by paper with ink on it
I hope you guys don't do that.
There is no such thing as good horror manga
Sure, they can be grotesque but not frightening
>>156945378
It's quite interesting. Written horror is a lot different from movie-style horror. As this idiot >>156945376
points out, you can't exactly be startled, which is what most people nowadays associate horror and "being frightened" with. No music or sudden visual cues lead to a very different style in written and, to a lesser degree, comic format.
Manga 'horror' is often mostly just shorthand for monsters and the paranormal. Grotesque at best, as you point out, but hardly "frightening". The few ones that get close to a feeling of dread are those with some sort of "then who was phone?" twist, like that Junji Itou one about the family that reenacts the WW2 bombings to torment the deserter that lives in their house.
>>156944872
There's Fuan no Tane +, though it kinda loses that slice-of-horror feeling to the original one.
>>156946058
I think you're taking the whole "visual" part of manga for granted, especially if you're saying television has the advantages of visual cues over it. And comics don't just disregard sound, especially not comics made in a country with a logographic writing system. Words, sounds and images are bound to the point where text often becomes a part of the drawings to convey speech nuances, sounds, textures, weight and whatever else you can think of. Speech bubble shapes and fonts are a part of this too.
It's not a matter of not being able to be startled (which you obviously can be with something as simple as having a page turner be a double spread close up), it's just not going to happen the same way it does with audiovisual mediums.
>>156949599
SFX or not, though, reading has a much slower pace than even your average audiovisual medium. You take in the "shock" a lot more slowly. Jumpscares only work in comics if you have some unexpected gimmick, like that autoscrolling korean webcomic.
>>156950585
That really depends on the artist's ability and style. You can set a reading pace for the viewer through paneling and visual reading, though I'll give you that a person's reading habits will inevitably hinder or change the way manga is consumed. And jumpscares can totally be a thing in manga. There's no point in posting a page with one because obviously you need context, but there's stuff out there.
When well done, is the best genre you can have. Also, anyone know a manga about legends like the Hachisakusama?
>>156944149
Only a few are good and most just mention Junji Itoh.