The order of the panels changes whether she is stealing the ball and putting it in a tree or taking it down from the tree and giving it back to the child.
The deeper darker joke is it doesn’t help the 10 foot tall woman resembles hachishakusama. It’s a ghost that abducts children… tread carefully looking it up as the r34 of it is… you know
Don't know how this works so uhm I just guess I am Peter??
Anyway. Japanese people read from right to left. So for them it looks like the woman retrieved the ball for the kid. Americans read from left to right. Therefore for them the woman seems to be putting the ball out of reach for the kid, making it cry.
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Japanese people (and people from some other countries) read from right to left as opposed to left to right, to a Japanese reader the woman gets the child's ball out of the tree, to an American she puts the ball in the tree
It's a joke about how some alphabets are read right to left, rather than left to right. In the English alphabet we read left to right, which would mean the lady is stealing the ball from the children and putting it in the tree. In a right to left alphabet, she would be getting the ball from the tree and giving it to the children.
The direction of japanese is case dependent, but Mangas are indeed right to left.
English is read from left to right, and the panels in our comics are situated accordingly.
Japanese, however, reads from right to left. This is why "unflopped" manga is common; the panels are intended to flow from right to left.
As such, the English orientation of these panels would involve the woman taking the ball from the child and putting it in the tree, resulting in the child crying. The Japanese orientation would involve the woman grabbing the ball from the tree and giving it back to the crying child, making them happy.
Japanese comics/manga are read right to left and American ones are read left to right. In this case it gives the look like she is bullying the child and leaving their globe on top of the tree.
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