You've somehow managed to make me doubt myself again regarding the left-to-right vs right-to-left debacle. I honestly prefer right-to-left myself because I've also read more manga than western comics. It's so easy to map things out and I relate to studying other manga to see how different authors handle different things. Except a bunch of people kinda implied that this is confusing and a bit pretentious so I spent half a month flipping my first chapter and crying over the fact that my protagonist has his hair parting on the wrong side for left-to-right to work well. So like... fuck you.
But also thanks. I considered buying Apple Black some time ago and I'm glad I got to your reviews first because I think it would have frustrated me endlessly. I'm sure plenty of people are interested in the story and it's likely that me not getting it is just a matter of taste. However, with the pages you show as reference, I too keep reading from right-to-left, never mind the mess that is the speech layout. That one panel with Opal is also just... very wordy. At that point it's probably best to reconsider the page layout or the dialogue itself.
That said, clearly I'm no expert. Just a hater by nature. :')
Ah. Well. Shit.
You've somehow managed to make me doubt myself again regarding the left-to-right vs right-to-left debacle. I honestly prefer right-to-left myself because I've also read more manga than western comics. It's so easy to map things out and I relate to studying other manga to see how different authors handle different things. Except a bunch of people kinda implied that this is confusing and a bit pretentious so I spent half a month flipping my first chapter and crying over the fact that my protagonist has his hair parting on the wrong side for left-to-right to work well. So like... fuck you.
But also thanks. I considered buying Apple Black some time ago and I'm glad I got to your reviews first because I think it would have frustrated me endlessly. I'm sure plenty of people are interested in the story and it's likely that me not getting it is just a matter of taste. However, with the pages you show as reference, I too keep reading from right-to-left, never mind the mess that is the speech layout. That one panel with Opal is also just... very wordy. At that point it's probably best to reconsider the page layout or the dialogue itself.
That said, clearly I'm no expert. Just a hater by nature. :')