Why are mangakas/comic book artists who only got professionally published after 30 so incredibly rare?
Because you need a job to survive and the will to spend most of your free time drawing comics to get your first drafts, and if you get to that point, the balls to leave your stable job for something that has a good chance to kill you before your 60s
>>7964352Matter of time and career opportunity. You either get caught up in the rat race of adult life with bills and responsibilities, or potential employers would rather hire a younger kid they can rear and grow into a reliable easy to manage employee than an adult. Only way to really make it past 30 is knowing the right people or self publishing. I believe in Japan is a our getting in contact with an editor and showing them something that catches their eye with a one shot. All that being said, shit like Demon Slayer and Jojo's both happened when the mangaka was late twenties and early thirties.
>>7964352You usogui mentioned
>>7964356I meant "yooo, usogui mentioned" damn auto correct
they commit sudoku if they don't make it by age 30
art is like the one industry where they don't give about how old you are but what you bring to the table. Uncs just cant be bothered to try to do more than watch tv after coming home from work or some shi
>>7964355>>7964370TheseBest you can hope for after hitting 30 in nipland is writing some memetic copypasta story then hope that in 5 years some corpo mandates an anime or movie adaption based on it.
>>7964352Bro thinks he's Gojo :skull: :skull:Bro would NOT win :clown:
>>7964381It's a very underrated gem. It has good writing. Good art. The name of the manga is usogui btw. I've read it and to summarize it all up it's mind-breaking mind games, gambling and epic fights.
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>>7964387One of the things about older mangakas I guess. Their manga are always more mature. Whether it be emotionally, or more cerebral, more complex in plot, give space for philosophy, etc. Seinen doesn't sell as well as Shonen, but it has its place
>>7964352>after 30Most (normal) guys have a wife and kids in their 30s so quitting your stable job to chase a childish dream is incredibly dumb, irresponsible and immature.Unless you have a midlife crisis and you're still single and childless, there's no point.
>>7964623>most50% of millennials have a kid in their 30s, and it's only going down
>>7964398>Their manga are always more mature
>>7964352I assume that the manga model just doesn't appeal to you as you get older.If I had to guess, as you get older (we're speaking of 30 as being "old" when in other art forms 30 is still young like in film and literature and even western comics/ graphic novels) you don't really want to have to work within the cut throat environment of the manga industry where if your work isn't immediately appealing to a larger audience it'll get cancelled and if it doesn't cancelled then you'll be worked to the bone and probably have to start making important creative choices on the fly as you go which doesn't feel good and often results in subpar work.Keep in mind that there is a lot of manga and magazines that don't get any sort of translations and don't make it to the west whose older authors you're just not familiar with. There's niche, arthouse, underground magazines, magazines that publish more one shots and short serializations and that offer much more creative freedom which appeals to older artists or just artists in general that don't really want to "make it" big and pump out the next big shonen manga or whatever.
>>7964352drawing comics as a job is taxing on the body. Also no more time for the 30 year old guy to learn. He should be at peak illustration skill by oneshot submission.
>>7964352If u aren't pro by 20 give up. At 30 you're hopeless. Nobody on here that's 30+ is drawing at a level worth noting
>>7964354>something that has a good chance to kill you before your 60sPlease elaborate on what you mean by this lol
Can all the 30 year olds please stand up? Pyw
>>7964352How do I hide threads from crabs?
>>7964352Give me a statistic to back your claim
>>7964636>50% of millennials have a kid in their 30sOkay but this is 4chan we're talking about. Half the people here haven't even held another girls/boys hand before.
