>“After my serial started, for the first three or four months, I was in the red," Hokazono said. "Everything I got paid for my pages went into paying my assistants." https://www.cbr.com/kagurabachi-shonen-jump-author-debt/Uhhhh.... Shonen Jump bros?!?!
>>281839976>Mangaka have to pay for their assistantsWhat a garbage industry. Shueisha can’t even support them in this? Even if I was filthy rich like Oda, I’d still be pissed to pay assistants out of my pocket
>>281839976Lucky him that it's now selling in 100k-range. Can't imagine going into debt in early 20s. that's grim.
>>281839976This is why jump is hiring duo nowaday. What a fucking dumpster fire. How many unfortunate mangaka went out of their art because corporate can't be bothered to help them?
Newbies are supposed to start by themselves instead of having a crew of assistants. Assistants and understudies come after you get successfulThis guy is a retard
>>281840143he went FOMO with the hope that western hype will elevate his manga in japan. This guy feels like /biz/ meme comes to life.
>make billions from manga sales, anime and merch every year>pay the mangaka literal peanuts>they have to hire their own assistans and pay for their own studio toohow do they keep getting away with it?
>>281840204Artists are easy to take advantage of because they're usually happy eating shit if it means they don't have to wash dishes and just draw instead. They're also notoriously bad at business and negotiating.
>>281840191>This guy feels like /biz/ meme comes to life.That's FX Senshi Kurumi's author
They don't have financial department in Shueisha to give advice to their slaves?
>>281839976Is this reasom why they are bringing back mostly veterans to their magazine? This isn't wsj's problem, right? Even Sunday and Magazine mostly have veterans in their lineups.
>cbrHoly fuck, the state of these ragebaiting faggots.
>>281840191kill yourself, retard. westoid hype was always meaningless and it got popular because it's the only decent thing running in the slop magazine.
>>281840363Picrel.
>>281840065And he is married
>>281840328It has been a thing for a loooooooong time since forever. It isn't some loud subject and nobody in JP cared because mangaka isn't "real job" of sort and get no respect whatsoever. Working as mangaka is just working in black company but more openly.
>>281840143That's what he did, then he started a weekly series which absolutely requires assistants.
>>281839976Why did he hire assistants, if he couldn't afford them?
>>281840056>I have to pay my employees?
>>281840485gambling for success, probably. KGB was quite a big topic 2 years ago, even now.
>>281840496He must be American, if it was up to him, you'd have to give a (obligatory) tip when buying manga to pay the employees.
>>281840485Because you can't put out a weekly series in jump unless you basically want your characters standing in white voids.Jump is what puts authors in contact with assistants too
>>281839976Man...... no wonder why i love it. Assistants really did a heavy lifitng. I always find the background charming.
>>281840564
>>281840056Even if they do hire the assistants go ongoing authors, I doubt a series that just started would have that benefited.Maybe they do it for established series but it was a special case since he wanted assistants from minute one?
>>281840564If his editor knows he's broke, then this situation shouldn't have occurred. Dude shouldn't have to go in debt for assistants his editor recommended to him.
>>281840328SJ canceled Astro Royale after 1 year, which was made by the guy who did Tokyo Revengers.
>>281839976That's pretty normal. Not just a Jump thing. Actually Jump's page rates are pretty good compared to most publications.>>281840056Authors aren't even employed by publishers. They're self-employed, the publishers just pay them for the license to distribute the work.>>281840124>This is why jump is hiring duo nowaday.Jump always worked with duos.>>281840204>pay the mangaka literal peanutsYou've got absolutely no idea how much Shueisha pays.
>>281840618It happens, then your first volume comes out and you start making money.Kgb's first volume was over five months after it started so it wasn't THAT bad.
>>281840430>nobody in JP cared because mangaka isn't "real job" of sort and get no respect whatsoever.Bro what? It's one of the most desired jobs. It's equivalent wanting to be an actor in america. It's well respected.
>>281840618>If his editor knows he's broke,That's a big if. Editors aren't their fucking financial advisors. How's he supposed to know the dude's account balance? It's none of his business.
>>281840524Unironically, why pay these scum money when you can just use the tip system?Even the min pay of 2 dollars an hour for tip employees is too much.They are taking away MY money in MY business.>benefitsI make sure no one gets free meals and transport either.Why do I have to pay you even more.
>>281840618If you don't have life experience you can't create good manga. Miyazaki said it or something
>>281840204>>281840056>>281840430So true. Animanga is now the one and only competitive industry of Japan while China is dominating its former manufacturing area but the actual artists who work for it? Complete slave labour WITHOUT ANY TIME TO ENJOY ACTUAL LIFE while enriching the disgustingly greedy ass biggest slop magazine company that is Jewheisha. Only completely techno-feudalized brain-chipped NPC bootlickers will differ.
>>281840056Assistants are a luxury
>>281839976>>281840056Kishimoto was poor too and also had a lot of assistants early on as well.
>>281840775Chinkshills are the most pathetic group human being that i have ever seen in my entire life
>>281840809couldn't he ask his brother
>>281840775More and more manufacturing is being taken by Vietnam and India.China is getting too expensive for manufacturing. At least they still have their steel and Ship building.
So is he still poor or not?
>>281840861Considering how well the series and the merch sell? Nope.
>>281840836China is where you go when you want something manufactured well. Vietnam is where you go when you want it made cheaply.
>>281840769Miyazaki didn't have life experience and he made the best fantasy manga of all time. So what does that say?
>>281840775it's way that bugmen gravitate to AI like flies to shit that always gets me
>>281840056You don't need assistants to make a manga. It is up to the author if they even have any and how many they employ. It's not the publisher's job to pay therm, they can even have assistants for multiple works spread across different publishers.The manga industry is incredibly scummy and treats authors (and assistants) like shit, but any sort of contracting work would be like this.
>>281840960In America art developed a culture of it speaking to the reader in a complex way. That being the point of the art. Authenticity becomes deeply important here and art that is merely transient and designed to just entertain is denigrated. In Asia, artists are still more often seen as commodity producers that are just making a product to be consumed and discarded. There are of couse perfectionists that see what they're doing as speaking from their hearts. But you have more people that are far more willing to use AI to get a product out on deadline because the perception of what they're doing is less romanticized.
Wait, so he has tons of assistants and it still look like fucking ass? LMAO
post spaceslike this?don't read.simple as.
Lucky Hackazono. A lucky bum.
>>281840950It says a lot about our society.
>Reddit filename
>>281841018And the AI is created by the JewSA megacorp. You are not any better and mostly worse than Japan.
Tafuku? Won.Tafuku? Won.Tafuku? Won.Tafuku? Won.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYdRWC6MCgM
>>281840981>they can even have assistants for multiple works spread across different publishers.So they have seperate assistants for individual works? Who decides the paygrade, if the mangaka is the one who pays their wages?
>>281840667>It's one of the most desired jobs.No, it's not. Being a mangaka is not widely considered a dream career in Japan. Sure, some kids say they want to be one (just like kids elsewhere say they want to be pro athletes or YouTubers), but once they see the crushing work conditions and minuscule success rate, that dream usually evaporates. Surveys of Japanese children's career aspirations consistently rank idol, musician, athlete, YouTuber, or chef far higher than mangaka. Most people don't consider it glamorous or desirable at all, it’s synonymous with instability, burnout, and obscurity.
>>281839976No wonder nobody wants to draw manga anymore
>>281839976I wonder how mangakas who had not one but two works axed before landing a hit like horikoshi made a living
>>281841137>Who decides the paygrade, if the mangaka is the one who pays their wages?The market
>>281840143Unless you do absolute 0 backgrounds, it's impossible to do a weekly series by yourself. All mangaka start on their own with stuff like one shots so that they can learn everything but once they start serialising they need to have assistants to keep up with the schedule.
>>281840191Nah he just got lucky that the promotional image + first chapter looked so hilariously edgy and generic westoids started memeing about it non stop
>>281841427Like every creative work where its hard to break through, you have to save enough for each new try doing other jobs. Some opt to do assistant work to hone their art but its not always available.
>>281841497Fujos would have bought it no matter what.
>>281841497Yup yup.
>>281840524this or use the undocumented immigrant slave class to do it for cheap
>>281841125Kill yourself shartnigger. You're not welcome.
>>281841741I have produced more Tafuku OC than you.
>Hokazono was confirmed to ask fans about why they call Yura "J* H*"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
OFFICIAL LIST OF GOOD HISHAKU CHARACTERS:>Yura>Hat>HokutoOFFICIAL LIST OF SHIT HISHAKU CHARCTERS:>the rest
>>281840462Say that to Toriyama who only used 1.
>>281839976Dude took a huge risk and threw everything into making it work and he won. My respect for him has increased.
>>281839976>I'm a newbie, so I'll spend money like a pro.This little shit was always a pretentious prick. From the beginning he showed a huge ego.
>>281840056the most american post i've seen all day no wonder the state of living is so shit in that country
>>281843410>This little shit was always a pretentious prick. From the beginning he showed a huge ego.
