That's how you read Japanese, so that's how it's published. It'd be weirder if they flipped it left to right, 'cause then all the pictures would be backwards from how they were drawn originally.

[ And she smiles a little when he recognizes the hair accessory. ] Yeah. That's Alice. She's pretty cool, but that one -- [ She sets down the other mystery box she's carrying behind her back in order to point to another character, Minori, who's currently being introduced by tripping all over herself and landing flat on her face ] --is my favorite character.