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04-01-2010, 07:17 PM

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What do you mean "What level of Japanese"? It is like asking what level of English should you know to read a comic book. Hard question to answer, right?
I understand that. I was expecting answers to differ depending on a user's experience/opinion. It would depend on the comic book of course, but I would say usually late primary/early secondary education level.

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Manga is written for native speakers, they don't write them for foreigners learning Japanese. Therefore they are written at a native, fluent level. You may be able to understand a lot of a manga without a native understanding with some research and a dictionary, but the simple answer I guess would be that you need to be fluent in Japanese to read something written for Japanese people.
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What makes you think that? JLPT 1 isn't fluent
JLPT 1 expects a level of fluency strong enough to read a newspaper in Japan, which I would think is equivalent to the level required over in the UK to enjoy broadsheet.

I expect a fair difference in language fluency between reading a comic book and reading a broadsheet.

I did say "Naruto". I'm sorry I couldn't ask for anything more specific (other than (roughly) the number of vocabulary and Kanji needed.).
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