Calling all anime/manga otaku! Do you have this problem?

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Ha. I must be known for asking weird questions like this.

Anyway, I'm an anime/manga otaku, and I'm trying to figure out if this problem I have is a sensory integration issue or just my own weirdness. Whenever I'm reading a manga that's full of fight scenes, I find myself completely unable to decipher them. I see the fight scenes...I just can't see what's happening. Unless I've read them numerous times, or look super carefully, they just seem like lines. Occasionally I'll see some things-like the main character or an object-but mostly I can't see.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is it a sensory integration issue?

if they are cheap ie not collector items. cut the pages to seperate the cells spread them out

I don't have this issue. But it is very interesting. Do you have any other perceptual issues with groups or collections of items that you can recall? Maybe there is a trend somewhere. Also, did Bully's suggestion help out?

I seem to also have that problem. Have no clue if it's a sensory issue though...now I'm curious.
I seem to be a kinesthetic and tactile thinker- I think best through movement and feeling. I do not think in pictures or words (although I can construct pictures by associating movement or feeling). Maybe, at least for myself since I am not firstly visual, it's a problem filling in the blanks or interpretting implied movement since each panel is just one part of a whole implied set of movements? at any rate, I have the same issue it seems. I also have the issue when reading a fight or sport scene in a book (the Quidditch scenes in Harry Potter for instance confuse and bore me to death). Hope someone actually has heard of this....I'm very curious now. Neat to know I'm not the only one.

i do that, and also the same thing during fight scenes in movies. i've never really known why though.

maybe that's why i like yotsubato so much XD

That happens to me too.

not me

I think I kind of know what you're talking about. When I'm reading a manga, i usually manage to connect the panels in my head and create a "mental animation" flowing from panel to panel; however, this gets really difficult during fight and action scenes where there's a lot of frames/pages dedicated to a short amount of story. Perhaps I'm just going on overload, or maybe it's the fact that my brain is "buffering" the mental animation because it is processing faster than I can read the panels. (Basically, think like a streaming video, if the video is playing faster than it is able to load, then it will hang up and freeze in places to allow the loading process to catch up.)


That about sum it up?

I think I get what you mean. Like in One Piece, I'll literally spend five min. on one panel. "What is that? I know they're fighting, but who's winning? Where did that blast come from? Or who did it come from? Is that a leg? Is that a fist?" o.O lol. I'd hate to read a manga like DBZ. I'd rip my eyes out in frustration.

Same here. I tend to just get irritated with figuring out what's happening and just skip those panels/pages entirely. Interesting that there's someone else with this problem.

Yup... I have the same problem. I'll be reading along and then suddenly can't figure out what is going on in the fight panels. I'll have to look at them for a while to figure out who was hitting who, or what happened in general. I think it's just there are so many lines I can't see the pattern (which in this case, is the picture!).