The List
6 Series Starring Aspiring Mangaka
by Lynzee Loveridge,
The dream of being a manga artist is a common one in the anime fandom. Semi-active publisher Felipe Smith, heading off into Japan. Every once and awhile, an anime series will set its focus on the manga industry and offer a few hints of what it's really like.
6. dojin. This creates conflict with his childhood friend who very much believes in the social stigma surrounding otaku. The series doesn't get into a lot of the nitty gritty about comic book creation, but offers a backdrop not often seen in dating-sim adaptations.
5. Encouragement of Climb. The series follows four editors, of various competency, as they try to launch a new magazine, wrangle talented artists, and of course, get an anime adaptation.
4. Dojin Work On the other side of professional manga publishing is the giant world of self-published comics (dojin) featuring original characters or more commonly characters from established properties. Super popular series will get their own events with "circles" selling their stories. The mecca for dojin, though, is definitely the twice-yearly shojo manga page. It always looks so easy in the tablet sketch videos!
2. Death Note. The story follows natural artist and junior high school student Moritaka and his writer and best friend Takagi as they attempt to break into the world of manga. The series touches on one of the major pitfalls in the industry: potential death from overwork while also giving an unapologetic view of industry's so-called "tricks of the trade" for anyone interested in breaking out of dojin into the mainstream, whether it's how to draw or how to ensnare an editor.
1. Osamu Tezuka, and seeks to establish himself as a figure in his own right.
The new poll: What's your experience in the manga industry?
The old poll: What's your favorite musical manga? So, I think that experiment has had its run. Got a lot of answers that had nothing to do with music, or were anime titles, or were already listed. Going forward, I'll just have to put as many answers I can come up with instead of having a free input box. Sorry, guys! (all answers under 1% are omitted):
- kakifly) 17.8%
- Harold Sakuishi) 13.0%
- Tomoko Ninomiya) 10.7%
- Ai Yazawa) 10.2%
- Yuki Kodama) 7.9%
- Arina Tanemura) 7.5%
- Maki Murakami) 5.0%
- Kiminori Wakasugi) 4.4%
- Kanon Kunozuki) 3.6%
- Michiaki Watanabe) 1.8%
- Inio Asano) 1.6%
- Yuki Kure) 1.6%
When she isn't compiling lists of tropes, topics, and characters, Lynzee works as Associate Editor for Anime News Network, blogs about women and LBGT topics in anime and manga on her blog Engendered Dilemma, and posts pictures of her son on Twitter @ANN_Lynzee.
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