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Saturday, August 9, 2008

Japanese Manga Sound Effects! Not Sound...Pictures!


Here's a web page I came across last night. One could imagine George Takei a.k.a. Star Trek's Mister Sulu dulcetly (such a word?) enunciating these verbally onomatopoeiac (such a word?) effects.

The link is http://www.oop-ack.com/manga/soundfx.html and is part of a larger page apparently devoted to Manga which, as My Number One And Only Son Zachary will advise, are Japanese comic books, jammed pack full of these Original Batman-like print effects. Not your Silver Age Green Lantern or Aquaman stuff of the 1960's...

In fact, this is bigger than I thought! Here are a few other locations that expand further on this topic:






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