Sorry about the size of this image, but I wanted to keep it readable. Reading in the opposite direction can be hard to adjust to. Publishers want to avoid making manga hard to read so that their manga will gain in popularity easier. Sometimes these are translated and sometimes they are left out. Another important issue is the word bubbles.
Japanese writing goes from top to bottom, and runs in columns.
Therefore, most of the word bubbles must be completely redrawn in a translated manga. Text, layout, and edited images 1999 by lumina .