I started reading the manga Bakuman. Below is a screenshot of the page [image] The first word of the first line and the last on the second line would be read according to jisho as 社会「しゃかい」but is written as 「そこ」人間「にんげん」but is written as「やつ」 and in a panel above it says 画面, which was written in…

It’s an often used style element in Japanese. You will find it not only in manga but in novels and books as well. Since there’s a standard with furigana to show a reading for a word you can have “double” meanings. Normally you can imagine the character “saying” the furigana and the word under the f…

Furigana in mangas

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evandcs September 13, 2022, 11:08am 21

to this day I find odd when there ia a full all kanji vocab and the reading the author chose to be in English?

Like ‘Retired’ in Jojo series

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Furigana in mangas

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