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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2006-06-13 01:14 am
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Manga vs. Manhwa vs. Manhua vs. THE WORLD

(ETA: Had to repost it after I noticed a fairly serious error. :D If you were working on the poll as I did so, sorry!)

As I threatened to do last week, I've created a nice long poll with sample images of manga/manhwa/manhua/what-have-you from various countries. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to see if you can judge where each image was produced solely by the style of the artwork. I know some of you are going to try to game it by looking at the filenames or whatever because smart, irreverent people like most of you on the friendslist just do those sorts of things, but if you manage to do so, then you throw the purpose of the poll off.

21 images, each opens in a new window to aid in navigation. It's not a perfect poll because it's mostly shoujo, with a few shounen thrown in, but it's not like a Livejournal poll is exceptionally scientific or anything. The lovely minions who donated images will be credited on the post where I put the answers.




Answers can be found in this post.

[Poll #747093]


And now I'm going to go have a migraine.

[identity profile] obviouslyanon.livejournal.com 2006-06-13 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
Woo! 3 Answers right. 4 if you count Sanzo! I should win a prize for highest number correct so far.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-06-13 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee. Probably more than me.

[identity profile] mscongeniality.livejournal.com 2006-06-13 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I started by skimming through the images, then quickly realized that I hadn't seen enough of Manhwa, Manhua, Thai or French comics to make a determination beyond 'I don't think that one's manga'. I didn't want to just guess so I left it alone.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-06-13 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
:D I'd seen a decent amount of manhwa, but no manhua other than pinups, no Thai at all, and only the webpage I got the French Yukiko's Spinach from before I set this poll up.

[identity profile] mistressrenet.livejournal.com 2006-06-16 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel obligated to point out I didn't peek. I also know a lot of manga and a little manwha, and almost nothing else, but tended to base my guesses on what I knew of that country's artistic traditions (and of French 'anime' and comics).