Visual Sound Effects! More Optical Onomatopoeia!

Here are a few more images associated with visual sound effects or optical onomatopoeia. Most of these are from stateside comic publications. Remarkably, many of these seemingly silly words are very similar to names assigned to audio sound effects in commercially available libraries such as the Hanna Barbera Sound FX Library.They use such nonsense words to label sounds that can not otherwise be titled.

Words like FLBONK, BILP, PEEONG, GEDUNK and BRONK, can not do justice to what each effect actually sounds like but at least you know which is which. In my own effects library, I am forced to do the same so equally baffling phrases like JAWUBBA_WUBBA and ZACHBLIP_BLOOP show in my inventory lists.

Japanese Sound Effects! More Images and Addresses!

I have a few sample giseigo and giongo images that I harvested last night, and what's more, here are a few more addresses which may offer the availability of additional publications on the subject of Japanese manga sound effects. Some of these websites may be presented in languages other than English, but if you take a few extra moments to carefully scan each page, you will be able to discern useful information even if you do not know the operative language.


http://www.virtualitesjaponaises.net/quotidienlivres.php

http://www.commecadujapon.com/dokuwiki/japonais/onomatopees

http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/illustrated-dictionary-of-japanese-onomatopoetic-expressions-~-nihongo-gitaigo-jiten

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-49-en-70-198v.html
(related information)

http://www.howtojapanese.com/HtLang.html#lang_336
(related information)

http://www.trussel.com/jap/jbooks01.htm
(related information)

Such a Big Deal? Japanese Manga Sound Effects?

A few weeks back, while doing a random Google search on "sound effects", I came across references to "Japanese Sound Effects" and "Manga Sound Effects": the art of expressing sound through imagery within the panels of manga, or Japanese graphic novels. I was fortunate to discover that a local Border's Books and Music had a copy of KANA DE MANGA: JAPANESE SOUND FX!(created by Glenn Kardy) in stock. I will read and report in a few days. I have also discovered that a fair majority of web surfers stopping by here at The Random Access Thought are keenly interested in this subject!

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:

http://www.angelfire.com/geek/tetrisnomiko/sfx.html

http://www.jbox.com/PRODUCT/KDM002

http://www.reimeika.ca/aku/gunnmlastorder/Kana.html

http://www.reimeika.ca/aku/gunnmlastorder/kana4.html