my blorbos dont deserve romantic relationships. they deserve relationships that are so complex and comfortable that they go beyond the terms romantic and platonic, deserve to be in a relationship thats ambiguous but still gives them the knowledge of where they stand with each other. they deserve to have their lives intertwined with others in a way that no words could ever begin to define it as. and they deserve to feel safe in it.
I have so much feels right now, I don't even know what to say... Just WoW ! What a ride !
Ep6 to ep8 I was a mess, tears couldn't stop coming down from my eyes.
I especially loved ep 6 ( but it's because my brain saw Higurama and Yuuji from JJK in the lawyer guy and Chishiya )
Bruh, I'm tired I forgot what I wanted to say, there's so much I want to talk. Like the end !!! Or talking about the meaning of life/ having a reason to live ( bcz it felt like it was the key point of the characters/show ), and the game they played, also the "enemy" were so interesting, and and.
Huh ! my brain hurt bcz I think too much.
Aaah this season of Alice in Borderland really kicked me in the feels, I'm gonna overthink about it for days..
What knowledge would have benefited you when starting your manga career?
I wish my managing editor had sat me down and said, "Make your word balloons bigger," and "Don't break up your word balloons so much."
What did you do first after deciding to become a manga author (e.g., practicing, strategizing, etc.)? And/or, did you have an efficient way to practice?
Get in the habit of finishing what you start. Work on your ability to explain, in words, what you find exciting or boring about a given series. I found myself unable to focus on the art, so I would just do lots of quick, sketchy figuring drawings (croquis). When I do a properly lit and shaded sketch (dessin) nowadays, I regret that I didn't adopt that habit sooner. I also regret having created so many rough storyboards, but basically no finished drafts.
What are you mindful of when revising your own storyboards (either when self-editing or taking advice from editorial)?
Since my work is published in a magazine for children, I'm always sure to listen when an editor tells me, "This part is hard to understand."
I try to plan out my storyboards with a strong sense of overall balance, and there've been many times when adjusting them based on the advice of others felt like removing pieces from a Jenga tower, which led to collapse and failure. Changing minor details is fine, but generally, I'd rather put in the work and start over from scratch instead of fixing up a bunch of things in my storyboards.
Is there any way you could have been better prepared before your serialization began?
I wish I'd had more experience doing proper drafts.
What do you bear in mind when creating manga (e.g., personal themes and throughlines)?
I'm not trying to get people from my own generation to come away thinking I have good taste.
What's your approach to creating strong, memorable characters?
Their mere appearance should elicit big laughs. Emphasis through repetition. Some sort of jarring discrepancy between expectations and reality.
How should one practice creating those strong characters?
It comes down to imagining how other people will feel about your characters. Which is hard.
How many works/pages did you create leading up to your first real submission? How many works/pages from that first submission until your magazine debut?
Around age twenty, I tried to get my first short work (that is, a completed draft) into a magazine called Aoharu. I called about bringing in my work, but they sort of blew me off in a noncommittal way, so I gave up.
After that, I got two different one-shots into a sister magazine, two more one-shots in Weekly Shonen Jump, a four-chapter serialization in the monthly magazine (That run would eventually become Jujutsu Kaisen volume 0), and then finally my serialization in WSJ.
Between my first one-shot in the sister magazine and my second one in the main magazine, I honed my skills working under Kano Sensei (Kiss x Death).
What's your approach to creating manga that's readable?
I let my art blast right past the safety and trim lines in order to guide the reader's eye. That said, I tend to sacrifice readability for what I find interesting, so don't treat me like some kind of role model.
How long does it take to create the storyboards for a single nineteen page chapter of manga?
It depends on the chapter, but usually around half a day. The weird thing is, even when I've got the story all thought out and I'm not unsure of anything, it can take me twelve hours or more just to get started on the storyboards (which only end up taking six or seven hours to finish). If, like me, you're the type of person who spends three hours psyching yourself up for a thirty-minute task, you might be in trouble if you're ever serialized in a manga magazine.
How long does it take you to finish the full draft for a single nineteen-page chapter of manga?
About five days. My focus is absolute garbage.
Beyond creating your storyboards, what do you do to come up with ideas and plot points for your work?
I recommend reading short stories (prose). Some of my best ideas come to me when I'm imagining how I would flesh out a short story into something longer.
Is there anything you referenced when creating your one-shots?
Collections of shorts from Haruko Ichikawa and Tomoko Yamashita Sensei. With one-shots, I'm thinking it might be better to make everything revolve around the intimate human drama, rather than the setup and the world.
This is my first time posting something on Tumblr. I hope I can reach jjk fan here! 😊
I'm a beginner in digital art, i have so much to learn and practice. But, I'm kind of proud of this drawing (mostly because I was able to draw Yuuji and Megumi!).
Hmm, I don't know how to use Tumblr.. ><''
I hope you will like my drawing, and thank you! I wish you a good day ❤️🌼
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