Out better than only spelling out the Japanese pronunciation of The ‘V’ in Sailor V is written in English, which stands ‘ii otoko’ in katakana just to make it stand out from the rest of The top is a hand-drawn word with a bubbly appearance. Japanese scripts can lend a lot of flavour to the text.

In Japanese manga, switching between different These pagesĪre really dynamic and fun to read, and I think the fonts definitely It seems like Tokyopop really pulled outĪll the stops for their flagship license, and it shows. In all, these font choices were great for a feminine series withįantasy and scifi elements. Now! Anyway, it’s an absolutely beautiful font with elements ofīrush painting, woodcut, and calligraphy. What a nightmare font licensing is, so let’s leave that alone for Cascade,Ĭassia, Formal 471… This leads into a different discussion about Other main font they used was…wait, it has a ton of names. Probably ALSO came for free on their programmes back then (it’sĬalled Formal 436 and can still be bought today), but its delicateĬurves were particularly well-suited to a shoujo manga with fantasy What a shock, I love something about SM). One where I really think they hit gold was Sailor Moon. Not the mostĮxciting choice, perhaps, but on the other hand it does lend a nice novel-like feel to the typesetting. Seriously, they were that cheap) in its original run. Sakura and Magic Knight Rayearth both used Times New Roman (yes, In the 90s Tokyopop did try a few different options. But I don’t think they add anything to the manga they’re used in a lot of the time, and my personal opinion is that your font choices should do just that. They get the job done and they’re wonderful fonts, don’t get me wrong. Lazy choice for manga typsetting, the easy default regardless of Introspective manga aimed at adult readers, either. But it’s not well-suited to shoujo, or to more Possible so that you aren’t distracted from fast-paced fight Works great for shounen- you want reading to be as easy and quick as Personally don’t think these fonts are that suited to a lot of manga. I don’t know why,īecause I think it’s pretty ill-suited to most manga, but it’sīasically the same type of font you see in a lot of Western comicīooks and newspaper comic strips. With manga! At some point, when deciding what type of font to use inĮnglish translated manga, one type won out.

I’m going to focus primarily onįont choices for manga here, but this information should hopefully be So I wanted to give other artists a bit of a leg up by World of fonts is really confusing, and it took me ages to get myīearings and figure out how I wanted to go forward with typesetting Holding a work of fiction together, noticeable only ever by their

Fonts used in manga