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Questions tagged [mangaka]

A mangaka (漫画家) is a person who creates manga. Use this tag for questions pertaining to a specific mangaka or the job of being a mangaka.

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How does a mangaka get paid?

From what I have seen from anime and heard, doujinshi artists get paid per book they sell at places like Comiket or online, but you have some mangaka who release one chapter per issue of serialized magazines like Shounen Jump and Comic Yuri…
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Does Hiro Mashima (Fairy Tail) have something in common with Eiichiro Oda (One Piece)?

Hiro Mashima, the author of Fairy Tail, has a really similar drawing style to Eiichiro Oda, One Piece mangaka. We know that some well known mangakas had previously worked as assistants to others (like Hiroyuki Takei and Eiichiro Oda himself, both…
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How much do mangaka profit from anime or merchandise sales?

People always say they buy stuff of a certain series to support a certain mangaka. Now it made me wonder how much actually goes to the mangaka himself. Do mangaka usually work for a publishing company like jump for example or do they work…
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Is Dwun (Wdwune) based on Yoshihiro Togashi?

In Hunter × Hunter (2011, not sure about 1999), there is a character named Dwun (pictured below, red shirt) who appears in the Greed Island arc. Today, I was exposed to this image of Yoshihiro Togashi, the Hunter × Hunter mangaka (from this much…
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What is the role of mangaka assistants?

Several mangaka have assistants to help them with producing their manga. Do these assistants perform a standard set of well-defined tasks (similar to a movie's assistant director), or does each mangaka decide what their assistant does?
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Can a mangaka continue another mangaka's manga?

There are plenty of manga that never had an ending for many reasons. For example, High School of the Dead's mangaka, Daisuke Satou, has passed away. Some mangaka also cannot continue their work because of health problems, as well as other reasons.…
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Do manga artists draw their comics by hand or use computers?

In the Bakuman manga, the authors show that the manga artists create a manga without using any technology like computers. Is that how the mangas are drawn?
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Is it common for a writer to write for more than one demographic?

CLAMP writes for more than one demographic of manga--Cardcaptor Sakura is shoujo while Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle is shounen and xxxHolic is seinen. Masashi Kishimoto, the author of Naruto, however, has only written for Weekly Shōnen Jump,…
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Is there any reliable source that explains the Tsugumi Ohba-Hiroshi Gamo pen name?

It is said in some sites (including Wikipedia) that based on some cross-references the Bakuman and Death Note, the author, Tsugumi Ohba, is actually a pen name, and his real name is Hiroshi Gamo, another 50-year-old mangaka that was some kind of…
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Is there any biographical information available about Yoshihisa Tagami creator of Grey?

In the late 1980's early 90's Viz media published Grey by Yoshihisa Tagami as well as another work of his, Horobi. Grey was later made into an anime and according to this site, he worked on some other manga and anime, but I have not been able to…
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What was Akamatsu Ken's role in creating Negima!? Neo?

Mahou Sensei Negima! is a manga by Akamatsu Ken which has had an anime and live action adaptation of the same name. There is also another manga called Negima!? Neo by Fujima Takuya which was made into an anime titled Negima!?. Wikipedia says that…
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When I use online manga readers, does the mangaka get any income from it?

I usually read manga from online readers, specifically MangaPanda. Am I contributing to a mangaka's income by reading from such websites? Are they licensed to distribute them online?
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Is writing a manga more similar to writing a screenplay than writing a traditional comic book or even a western graphic novel?

The more I read about manga the more I realize that its skews heavily towards the visual. I'm wondering if there's graphic novel writer who talks about the differences between writing a manga and writing a western-inspired graphic novel? Since…
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Are there any female mangaka pretending to be a male?

Manga magazines are usually targeted to a specific age and gender of readers. Usually shounen manga are written by males even if there are notable examples of female artists working on shounen series (e.g. Rumiko Takahashi, CLAMP). Are there any…
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What percentage of mangakas are females?

My friend says that most of the manga are written by men. Is that true? What percentage of mangakas are women?
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