Book Genre Quiz
Manga
You chase all kinds of stories at a brisk pace and bring a scene to life in one go with pictures and words.
Manga — Japanese comics — tell a story by arranging drawings in panels and pairing them with words in speech bubbles. The subjects range enormously — adventure, sports, cooking, history — and there's a manga about almost anything. The size and arrangement of the panels show the flow of time and the energy of a scene.
Reading manga, your eyes race from panel to panel and the pages turn at a brisk pace. You don't stay with one subject; you enjoy all kinds of stories, and you picture a scene in one go through pictures and words. You have a lightness that lets you jump straight into anything that looks fun.
Because you enjoy one thing after another at a brisk pace, you may put off what's in front of you because you can't wait to see what happens next. With so much catching your interest, you might have several stories you're partway through. Pick just one and follow it to the end, and you'll find a kind of enjoyment you can only get there.
Strengths
- You can jump right into all kinds of topics
- You can get scenes and feelings across vividly with gestures and expressions
- You can sum up how a story goes at a brisk pace
Where you may stumble
- Eager for what comes next, you put off the task in front of you
- You're following so many stories that you forget how far you've got
- Trying to make a story more exciting, you skip over the details
Sounds familiar, Manga?
- As you listen to someone talk, you're drawing the scene in your head
- When you tell people about something that happened, you can't help doing the characters' voices
- You end up doodling little pictures in the margins of your notes
Where you shine
Lively get-togethers, or explaining something complicated in a way that's easy to follow. Telling it so vividly that people can see it tends to draw an “Oh, I get it!” from your listeners.
Tips for “Manga”
- Pick just one of the stories you're following and see it through to the end
- Get your errands done first, and make enjoying what happens next your reward
- Before hyping something up, make sure to mention the one detail that matters
Matches
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Travel Writing — Travel Writing is another genre that moves lightly from place to place. For Manga, which often enjoys things in the imagination, Travel Writing's stories of actually going and seeing bring the scenes you picture closer to the real thing. Your paces match too, so the conversation never stalls.
Mystery — Mystery, too, keeps the pages turning at a brisk pace. To Manga, which enjoys a wide range of stories, Mystery shows the fun of chasing one puzzle all the way to the end.
History — History is a genre that checks what really happened, one fact at a time. Manga wants to take a scene it has pictured and build it up as it tells it, History wants to check that it matches the facts, and even when you're talking about the same thing, what you enjoy tends to drift apart.
Close neighbors
These differ from this one on just 1 of the 3 axes. If one of your axes was near the middle, you may have their side too.
Which one are you? 18 everyday situations, about 3 minutes.
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