Manga books where not the norm in the earily 80s every
Thing Was coming from anime.. We also use to call it japanamation..lol. This deck is from anime influence.. I personally like the indices close to the edge for peeking
In a tight fan... Thanks for the input every one...
Close to the edge is indeed good - but consider this.
When manufacturing playing cards, almost no companies get the alignment and registration 100% correct. The back is rarely aligned perfectly with the front with no margin of error.
Now, when the cards are being printed, and later being cut, the printer has to choose which side is the more important of the two to focus on getting closer to perfect. That side is the back - if the cards are cut off-center, the uneven margins will look bad and for symmetrical backs can even be considered as having a one-way mark. Legit poker players hate one-way marks because with a little pre-arrangement, one can use that to know something about the cards being dealt to each player.
There are limits, therefore, as to how thin of a margin goes on the back. Being off by a millimeter is not as easy to spot when a card has a wide-enough margin around the back design, but becomes very easy to spot when dealing with thin margins.
So, it's established that the back ends up being the more important of the two for correct alignment. This means that if you don't allow for enough of a margin or blank space around the face, including the index, you may find portions of your indices ending up on the wrong cards in the wrong places. This is not to say that you shouldn't put them near the cut line, but there's near and there's NEAR. Yours are mostly NEAR - and some aren't so near because the alignment of your indices varies from card to card, a no-no in functional playing card design.
I'm very familiar with the term "Japanamation" - a term that's NEVER used in Japan. I also remember the old VHS tapes that cost $30 for two episodes - some entire series are that much these days and on higher-quality formats. Perhaps for you
manga wasn't the norm, but for many, it was - especially the older
manga that had broad appeal and from which an anime movie or TV show was created. The
manga format didn't explode in the US until the '90s and the '00s, but the same can be said of
anime becoming closer to mainstream. There are still many in the US who think of animation and comics as a children's medium, while in Japanese society nothing could be further from the truth.
I'm simply pointing out that
anime is an animated art form seen in films and on television while
manga is the still art you're creating. Perhaps if it was a drawing of an
anime character, then I could understand calling it
anime as well, but it's not - none of your characters have appeared in any animation anywhere; they're of your own creation. It's like calling a painting a statue or calling a car wheel an anti-matter hyperdrive. Then again, many people in the US, especially non-collectors of either art form, would make exactly the same mistake, so if you want to keep the error in, go ahead. It doesn't make it any less of an error, but as long as you make money from it, who cares?
If you're going to be an artist, know your art form.
BTW: you can attach up to FIVE images to a single post, not just one. Combining them makes for easier reading and less wasted space.
