Katakana

Continuing with my Japanese anime theme, I looked at a variety of manga and liked the technique of the visual sound effects. They achieve this by writing the sound created by a character or aspect in the story beside the element that is creating it. For example, the word swoosh by a tree blowing in the wind. To gain a better understanding, I scanned a few of my manga that display this technique throughout their series-

Doraemon-

These scenes display the sounds for a whirlwind and a all cracking

 Tokyo MewMew-

This scene shows visually sound through the splash text around the water

 Kingdom Hearts II -

Here katakana is displayed to emphasize the sound of the stick hitting the mans head

Including Katakana in my animation to visually help display sound I believe will work nicely, and help the viewer further understand what is happening in the scene.

experimentation