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Manga Sound Effect Guide

Posted on February 7, 2016June 9, 2024 by Chris Kincaid

Japanese has around 1,200 onomatopoeia divided into 3 families (Kadooka, 2009.; Inose,n.d. ). That’s around 3x more than English has.  Onomatopoeia are words used to represent calls of animals, sounds of nature, sounds of people, and other sounds (Alilyeh & Zeinolabedin, 2014).  Luckily, manga doesn’t use all of these sound words.  However, it’s common for manga…

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