ManYue: Separate imagined visual branches from established story events

Comics can fully depict a choice a character never took. A dry coat or successful ending does not establish an event in the current story. Read visual entry, narration and return states, distinct from analysing conditional syntax alone. ManYue supplies ordinary reading and location, not automatic identification of alternate worlds, dreams or true memories.

Select a passage with entry and return cues

Choose three to five panels with surrounding scenes and record work, edition, chapter, position and panel IDs. Invent a wet-coated person at a door, an explicit imagined alternative route with a dry arrival, then a return to the still-wet doorway. Label the original example. Record sequence and objects before calling the inner image a real next-day arrival. Without a return panel, preserve entry evidence and mark return unseen rather than inventing one.

Record entry cues by source

Identify narration, thought frame, transition graphic or action introducing a branch, recording wording and imagery separately. Cloud borders, pale tones or absent borders can also indicate recollection, decoration or style, not universal reality markers. The example has an explicit imagined cue; a real work with tone changes alone remains tentative. Tie combined evidence to panels rather than expectation or theme. This is interpretation of a passage, not diagnosis of a real person’s mind.

Keep depicted actions labelled with their branch

Keep dry arrival and alternative route in a branch column, separately from the wet doorway. Rich detail does not promote a branch into current-layer fact or prove the character visited every depicted place. Attribute internal narration and quotation by layer instead of inserting them into the main timeline. Preserve unclear objects without inferring an entirely changed journey from a dry coat. Record depicted branch content before interpreting its purpose; a possible ending does not fill an actual-action gap.

Check object continuity at the return anchor

Compare door frame, wet marks, held objects and position after the return, keeping at least two matches rather than only a face. Persistent wet marks support the sample’s unchanged current state, not a universal rule for imagined scenes. Preserve genuinely changed return states and later explanation instead of forcing an initial classification. Actual actions may occur during imagination and need evidence separately. Unshown intervals remain unknown; returning does not prove complete physical stillness.

Separate an alternative possibility from actual causality

An imagined dry route is a character hypothesis or supplied alternative, not proof that route alone determines weather outcome. Record proposer, condition and depicted result separately, distinguishing narration from desire. For an explicitly multi-world work, retain its world identities instead of denying a world through this sample. Add no unseen transition rules. Preserve imagined or in another branch in the summary.

Reread the whole page at layer boundaries

Restore a whole-page view to check whether entry wording belongs to a previous panel or a supposed return is another view in the same layer. Trace dense layouts by panel IDs so a zoomed inner image does not erase context. Use an actual bookmark entry if available, retaining panel IDs externally without automatic branch numbering. Check neighbouring pages in continuous reading; a page change itself does not restore reality. Evidence comes from the work, not the moment you tapped.

Retain alternatives when classification remains unclear

For insufficient cues, preserve imagination, recollection or scene-change candidates and their evidence, without recolouring images to manufacture support. Check missing scan borders against source and restore cropped views before treating defects as style. Append later evidence while retaining the original uncertainty record. Report concrete missing regions rather than demanding automatic plot understanding. Bounded observation can be complete without one final classification or forcing everything into actual events.

Recheck entry, inner image and return after leaving

Leave the reader and return to entry, dry-coat inner image and wet-coat return, explaining each layer and evidence. Summarize actual state, branch content, return evidence and unknowns separately, without turning imagined arrival into actual arrival. Keep comic and analysis independently and share only authorized necessary descriptions, identifying the invented scope. Completion assigns layers and locators, not truth certification for a work or app verification of an inevitable alternative outcome.

Related guides and sources

ManYue inset-panel reading: check boundaries and viewpoint; ManYue flashback timeline: separate presentation from event order.

Checked on November 9, 2026: Apple public version information lists ManYue 2.0.4, requiring iOS / iPadOS 15.0 or later. Feature scope follows the official App Store description and the installed version. This article provides reading and checking methods you can perform; it does not claim step-by-step physical-device or private-server testing. Manual records, external tools and actually visible controls are identified separately, and personal analysis or code observations are not presented as verified automatic capabilities.

For the concept or external-tool scope, see Open University: narrative and viewpoint glossary. Samples, checking sequences and observation records here are original reading exercises. External references establish no new automatic recognition, editing or inference in the app and do not replace checking the actual file or passage.