Newspapers, mostly known as those dull, boring paper things delivered in the morning featuring just walls of text over and over again. How would you feel, if our daily boring newspaper were to be changed into a manga form?
KaBa Net, an internet service company recently started a service which provides its readers with daily news in the form of a manga. Yes, instead of using those dull newspaper, they're using manga as their news medium. One news article is usually 4 to 8 frames long, covering at least 1 or 2 pages at its max.
The project is named, "Manga de Yomu News: Manga no Shimbun", translated it would come out as, "News Read Through Manga: The Manga Newspaper", KaBa Net is now using the Manga Newspaper for news of different sections, like, Politics, Business, International News, Society, Art, Sports and the newspaper's own special features.
As of now, KaBa Net has started a trial run with several "manga articles". The articles that were covered included the recent launching of North Korea's missiles and the upcoming Bullet Train models that Japan might adopt.
Unfortunately, if you're a fan of a "moe" kind of art-style, you'll be disappointed. While the news is in the form of manga, KaBa Net's intention is still to deliver news to a general public in a more entertaining way. The art itself is considered mediocre, but, hey, it's the news that counts! And since it's being drawn by a small team of mangakas, whose job is to draw several articles in one single day to cover the huge variety of news, it can't be suspected to be great art, can it?
You can view the Manga Newspaper right
here. Beware, it's in Japanese only.
Sources:
Not Cliché &
Newsmanga
For people that don't read newspaper much...The art isn't that great but it's worth the read anyway.Too bad that the articles are only 2 pages,it's a lil abstract.
I don't read newspaper much nowadays,I only read them when I'm subscribed though...Now I'm just too lazy to pick them up.
And the idea is good, but would anyone go online just to read the newspaper? Normally when I read, it's because I am somewhere and I don't have anything else to do. The manga-addicts still wouldn't read newspaper. They'd just search for real manga.
Considering the amount of time required to collect news, plan the manga and draw it up, they will need a lot of mangakas.
I admire the people courageous enough to give it a try.
Thanks for the link.
It's far superior to MOE.