Forum - View topicNEWS: German Artist Gets Manga Published by Shueisha
|
Goto page 1, 2 Next Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Thatguy3331
 Posts: 1799 |
|
|||
|
Anything's possible~
|
||||
|
||||
Bablioteca
 Posts: 51 Location: REPUBLIC OF TEXAS |
|
|||
|
wonder if this could be the start of some kind of precedent.
|
||||
|
||||
|
BigHeadClan
Posts: 283 |
|
|||
|
Woooow, unexpected... Even more so that it's a relative of mine!
|
||||
|
||||
|
grooven
Posts: 1428 Location: Canada |
|
|||
|
That is really cool. I wonder how exactly you get someone to pick up your work? I have have a card to contact an agent, but I don't know if they still are in the business. I don't want to overstep and phone as email isn't working anymore -_-"
|
||||
|
||||
Blatch
 Thread Killer Posts: 348 Location: Northeast U.S. |
|
|||
|
But... the episode of Answerman that published last week stated that nobody in Japan cares about your ideas.
|
||||
|
||||
|
BigHeadClan
Posts: 283 |
|
|||
|
I saw that to but that's pretty true no matter where you are. Even in business where you work closely with a company and people with the power to implement you're idea's they rarely listen.
It's a very closed mindset "this is how things are done, why change them" Japan may just be harder to see those idea's come to fruition. |
||||
|
||||
ParaChomp
 Posts: 1018 |
|
|||
So kids, what has this taught us? That's right, learn some mighty fine Japanese, practice until you bleed, and most importantly pray to God. |
||||
|
||||
noblesse oblige
 Posts: 282 Location: Florida |
|
|||
|
As soon as I saw the title of this article, I knew what the manga was going to be about: A German woman (most likely portrayed as blonde and underage) having a relationship with an indistinct Japanese male. Low and behold.....it doesn't take a genius to figure out why this one got published. I wouldn't take this as a harbinger of the Japanese manga industry, but it's still a feat I suppose.
|
||||
|
||||
Neohybrid_kai
 Posts: 146 Location: Indonesia |
|
|||
LOL, that's the first thing that comes to mind too. While Answerman is correct, but this news makes me realize some points: - While turning your idea into anime is nearly impossible, but its different with manga (there's even the doujin industry too, in case nobody can publish your work). - Creating idea is "abstract skill" but drawing manga is "visible skill" (for the lack of better term). I'm not saying that as long as you can draw beautiful pictures it will sell, but its more feasible than those "idea to anime" case. - Becoming a mangaka assistant is an option too. I didn't realize that you don't have to be a Japanese to be a mangaka assistant until I read this news. - If you can't draw then you can try for a collaboration with a person who can draw (though from reading Answerman you'll learn that this is also hard since most people who can draw also has their own story they want to do. |
||||
|
||||
Faiga_Raisa
 Posts: 283 |
|
|||
1. She speaks, writes, and reads fluent Japanese. So that's a great upper hand as dialogue is able to carry very well since she knows what Japanese people want to read and what way they want to read it and catered to them. If you don't know Japanese, if you don't know real Japanese culture (not the shit in anime), then your story isn't going to interest Japanese people. 2. Tonari no Young Jump is open to international artists as it does not require any artist to visit the Shueisha building. They also release 1 new series a week based on popularity. That means they're going through a lot of indie artists and extending it to international artists is a safe move. But they still require the work to be 100% Japanese. Nobody in Japan cares about your ideas except for the biggest manga publisher in a niche website they launched last year. Carolin had the most basic requirements and made a b-line for an open opportunity. And with her talent as a artist (she's been illustrating for the last 10 years) she was able to make it. Who knows how long Tonari no Young Jump will stay but that's a prime opportunity. If it shuts down then everyone is left to compete in the Shueisha open-to-international-artists-too manga contest. In which I don't think any international winner has been signed up for publication. |
||||
|
||||
enurtsol
 Posts: 14889 |
|
|||
|
Reminds us of the cult-hit manga series-turned film My Darling is a Foreigner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_vASia5jBg 
|
||||
|
||||
|
Lengarion
Posts: 19 |
|
|||
|
How can I be German and never have heard of her?
It reminded me of the Answerman article too. But yeah, people pointed out how it works. I know of another example: Jürgen Seebeck, he used to live/work in Japan, learned the language* and married a Japanese woman. He got published in Kodansha's Morning magazine. (His Manga got published in Germany later, too. Boy, did fans hate it - guess being published by Kodansha doesn't qualify as a real Mangaka.) *he later worked as a Manga translator. |
||||
|
||||
|
nhat
Posts: 922 |
|
|||
The manga is on the website, the woman doesn't look like a kid in there but I only read the first chapter. |
||||
|
||||
prime_pm
 Posts: 2372 Location: Your Mother's Bedroom |
|
|||
|
Wunderbar! Viel gluck, Frau Eckhardt. Gott ist mitt dir.
...my short stories rely on a LOT of German too. |
||||
|
||||
KabaKabaFruit
 Posts: 1901 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba |
|
|||
|
Ach mein Gott!
|
||||
|
||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group