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NEWS: act-age Artist Shiro Usazaki, Iruma-kun's Osamu Nishi Launch New Manga

Shiro Usazaki got absolutely #ed by her writer. She would be set for life if he kept it in his pants and would also be done with act-age by now as it was into Vol 14 when it was canceled 4 years ago. At least she got paired with a hit author so success might come quick now. Or not, Jump is a grinder.

residentgrigo wrote:

Shiro Usazaki got absolutely #ed by her writer. She would be set for life if he kept it in his pants and would also be done with act-age by now as it was into Vol 14 when it was canceled 4 years ago. At least she got paired with a hit author so success might come quick now. Or not, Jump is a grinder.

The issue at hand is outside act age the last few stories where weak. Iruma is interesting to be fair. Let him do his thing and her art it up.

residentgrigo wrote:

Shiro Usazaki got absolutely #ed by her writer. She would be set for life if he kept it in his pants and would also be done with act-age by now as it was into Vol 14 when it was canceled 4 years ago. At least she got paired with a hit author so success might come quick now. Or not, Jump is a grinder.

The issue at hand is outside act age the last few stories where weak. Iruma is interesting to be fair. Let him do his thing and her art it up.

You forget how over the top this Author is.

Her weakness is she can't tell a good story by herself. Iruma kun writer can write. Maybe she learns better narrative structure here. The girl can draw super well but it means 0 if you can't write interesting content.

Monogotari Author shoulda been a banger but Academy was too complicated and the translator nearly Yoloes Viz.

Art_gamer86 wrote:

residentgrigo wrote: Shiro Usazaki got absolutely #ed by her writer. She would be set for life if he kept it in his pants and would also be done with act-age by now as it was into Vol 14 when it was canceled 4 years ago. At least she got paired with a hit author so success might come quick now. Or not, Jump is a grinder. The issue at hand is outside act age the last few stories where weak. Iruma is interesting to be fair. Let him do his thing and her art it up. You forget how over the top this Author is. Her weakness is she can't tell a good story by herself. Iruma kun writer can write. Maybe she learns better narrative structure here. The girl can draw super well but it means 0 if you can't write interesting content. Monogotari Author shoulda been a banger but Academy was too complicated and the translator nearly Yoloes Viz.

What are you talking about? She works as an artist for other writers, she doesn't need to learn how to write. That's not a "weakness".

Nev999 wrote:

Art_gamer86 wrote: residentgrigo wrote: Shiro Usazaki got absolutely #ed by her writer. She would be set for life if he kept it in his pants and would also be done with act-age by now as it was into Vol 14 when it was canceled 4 years ago. At least she got paired with a hit author so success might come quick now. Or not, Jump is a grinder. The issue at hand is outside act age the last few stories where weak. Iruma is interesting to be fair. Let him do his thing and her art it up. You forget how over the top this Author is. Her weakness is she can't tell a good story by herself. Iruma kun writer can write. Maybe she learns better narrative structure here. The girl can draw super well but it means 0 if you can't write interesting content. Monogotari Author shoulda been a banger but Academy was too complicated and the translator nearly Yoloes Viz. What are you talking about? She works as an artist for other writers, she doesn't need to learn how to write. That's not a "weakness".

You haven't been to design school it's clear here..
What am I talking about...
To be good by yourself in Weekly Shonen jump you need to write well and be a good artist. This is why the best get sick. Even Korean comics are similar.
The Act age artist is what most people would call a concept designer in the entertainment industry. She can do light novel pages and covers. She can go with a collab manga and a light novel adaptation. She chose Shue and Weekly Jump. Sucking at good storytelling is a weakness because being in the bottom 5 % in Jump is when you get axed so the bottom 4 or 5.

Jump has a lot of good books atm so its very easy to have a book get axed. Maybe she learns a bit of world-building, working for and with, the Iruma kun creator for her own future works. I like her, narrative and story writing is something you learn in Design College normally.

Nev999 wrote:

Art_gamer86 wrote: residentgrigo wrote: Shiro Usazaki got absolutely #ed by her writer. She would be set for life if he kept it in his pants and would also be done with act-age by now as it was into Vol 14 when it was canceled 4 years ago. At least she got paired with a hit author so success might come quick now. Or not, Jump is a grinder. The issue at hand is outside act age the last few stories where weak. Iruma is interesting to be fair. Let him do his thing and her art it up. You forget how over the top this Author is. Her weakness is she can't tell a good story by herself. Iruma kun writer can write. Maybe she learns better narrative structure here. The girl can draw super well but it means 0 if you can't write interesting content. Monogotari Author shoulda been a banger but Academy was too complicated and the translator nearly Yoloes Viz. What are you talking about? She works as an artist for other writers, she doesn't need to learn how to write. That's not a "weakness".

You haven't been to design school it's clear here..
What am I talking about...
To be good by yourself in Weekly Shonen jump you need to write well and be a good artist. This is why the best get sick. Even Korean comics are similar.
The Act age artist is what most people would call a concept designer in the entertainment industry. She can do light novel pages and covers. She can go with a collab manga and a light novel adaptation. She chose Shue and Weekly Jump. Sucking at good storytelling is a weakness because being in the bottom 5 % in Jump is when you get axed so the bottom 4 or 5.

Jump has a lot of good books atm so its very easy to have a book get axed. Maybe she learns a bit of world-building, working for and with, the Iruma kun creator for her own future works. I like her, narrative and story writing is something you learn in Design College normally.

Just off the top of my head, highly successful duos who have made it in JUMP include:
- Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba for Death Note and Bakuman
- Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi for Dr. Stone
- Inagaki and Yusuke Murata for Eyeshield 21
- Posuka Demizu and Kaiu Shira with The Promised Neverland
- Yukie Suenaga and Takamasa Moue with Akane-Banashi
- Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki with Food Wars
if we want to get into Jump+ stuff there's
- Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari on Oshi no Ko
- Joumyaku and Mizuki Yoda with Marriagetoxin
- Sekka Iwata and Yu Aoki's Magilumiere Magical Girls INC.

There is a famous saying among Japanese manga editors: "Readers begin to read a manga for the art (the drawings) but continue to read it for the story (and characters)"

Both are equally important but people who can draw have a head start to debut as mangaka in Japan.

It's true that mangaka who can draw AND write a good story will get more work and get a serialization more easily. But mangaka good at drawing are in high demand. Only manga writers that can't draw (like me ) have to prove that they can produce very interesting manga that sell well to get work and debut as pro.

Recently, even editors at Jump are trying to make the workload lighter for mangaka, thus we are getting more and more duos of mangaka, compared to before.

It's not a bad thing to only be able to draw OR to only be able to write good story/characters, but it's easier to get your series published when you can do both very well.