I want to become a professional mangaka!

tsudecimo said:
Why would a professional mangaka browse a site like this..

Immahnoob said:
No.

tsudecimo said:
Why would a professional mangaka browse a site like this..

SovietStrawberry said:
Get better taste first, lest you start attempting to produce more garbage.

Supercolin said:
mangaka? like a cartoonist?

laldonkaments said:
Give up

Bunnay said:
I'm pretty good with paint. I know how to make circles and shit and fill them in with colours.

Astros477 said:
Well good luck with your aspirations. Hopefully you won't give into pressure and abandon your childhood dream.

marriage said:
why would you create something similar to elfen lied

HxH_fan said:


How to get a better taste? And how can I even know if my taste is good/bad?

tsudecimo said:
Unless you move to Japan, I don't see how this dream of yours can happen. And even if we assume you are committed enough to move there, very few mangaka actually get to have their works serialized.

I highly recommend watching Bakuman. It will give you more insight on mangaka and the manga industry.

And this guy should be your hero:
http://myanimelist.net/people/4212/Yuu_Kamiya

Ellert0 said:
Passion that other people don't have scares them, don't let the people here (you know, the MAL community that gave Elfen Lied a 8,3 and Naruto a 8,14) get you down with their pretending act of finding those two to be "bad taste", if they hated those two so much they wouldn't give them such high scores.

Got no idea how you should go around trying to publish your work to the widest audience possible, asking around here though is not a good idea, you don't want to have it as part of your legacy that your humble beginnings with publishing your manga involved asking people on MAL how to do it.

Ellert0 said:
Passion that other people don't have scares them, don't let the people here (you know, the MAL community that gave Elfen Lied a 8,3 and Naruto a 8,14) get you down with their pretending act of finding those two to be "bad taste", if they hated those two so much they wouldn't give them such high scores.

Got no idea how you should go around trying to publish your work to the widest audience possible, asking around here though is not a good idea, you don't want to have it as part of your legacy that your humble beginnings with publishing your manga involved asking people on MAL how to do it.

Feyfray said:
Unless you are Japanese your chance of breaking into that market are as close to zero as it gets. For every weeaboo dweeb that draws manga outside of Japan, there are at least two virgins in Japan trying to succeed at it.

tsudecimo said:
Unless you move to Japan, I don't see how this dream of yours can happen. And even if we assume you are committed enough to move there, very few mangaka actually get to have their works serialized.

I highly recommend watching Bakuman. It will give you more insight on mangaka and the manga industry.

tsudecimo said:
And this guy should be your hero:
http://myanimelist.net/people/4212/Yuu_Kamiya

SovietStrawberry said:
All you've got to do to know is look at your chosen username. A step to improve it would be to not attempt at making a mix of Elfen Lied with Naruto.

I have done my part, now go forth child, mediocrity awaits you.

Eearu said:

Then you should really hear everyone else and give up on it, for starters, how good is your Japanese? Another thing to consider is becoming a regular cartoonist in your country instead of trying manga, even though that also requires great skills since it is a difficult path if you aren't really outstanding.

Ellert0 said:
Passion that other people don't have scares them, don't let the people here (you know, the MAL community that gave Elfen Lied a 8,3 and Naruto a 8,14) get you down with their pretending act of finding those two to be "bad taste", if they hated those two so much they wouldn't give them such high scores.

Got no idea how you should go around trying to publish your work to the widest audience possible, asking around here though is not a good idea, you don't want to have it as part of your legacy that your humble beginnings with publishing your manga involved asking people on MAL how to do it.

PedophilicRapist said:

Either way good luck to you, and maybe you can post a snippet of the manga? :D

HxH_fan said:


Its still not finished, I want to publish atleast a couple of chapters

RedRoseFring said:
As long as Togashi isn't your model.

RedRoseFring said:
As long as Togashi isn't your model.

cipheron said:
"Average" manga quality is based on the fact that chapters are produced weekly. Like someone said, Bakuman is the best anime about the pressures of making weekly manga. And they have reader feedback forms, and if readers don't rate your manga high enough, it can get cancelled anytime. Most mangas end up like this, and not like Naruto.

Gekan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is a new anime that also details how some of the manga-making roles are broken down.

Now, getting serialized in Japanese in Shonen Jump etc ... is a BULLSHIT goal. I will just say "ain't gonna happen". They're not working with you in the first place if you're not 100% fluent in Japanese.

You can still make your own comics. Do a web comic, and/or try and get work with a Western comic publication. But with those, they don't have the tight weekly scheduling and the average art style you need to pull off is a lot higher. That's also a very competitive market.

If you're throwing stuff up on the web as webcomics make sure you understand copyright. But many many more aspiring cartoonists get a break through webcomics than any other means these days. Unless you're a total bitching artist. Go to art college if you're serious. Study life drawing (drawing nude people so you understand body proportions).

Another option is to write a novel / novella (a short novel). Let's assume your writing is good enough for Japanese teens, for the sake of argument. If you are planning to be a full-blown mangaka you're talking both art and writing. A novel can be your pitch for the story. But you can also publish that yourself in any country. So it's a fallback, assuming your writing is good enough that other people will like it. If your writing isn't good enough for a kids/teens novel, then why aren't you just focusing on artwork alone? Many mangakas work in writer/artist teams. e.g. Death Note was such a team. Nobody expects you to do it all. And it's not realistic if even Japanese people are splitting the job up.

Now, you can actually pay to get those translated into Japanese, probably even get some fairly "known" name on the cover as a co-author / translator if you're coughing up the cash. Light Novels don't have to come out weekly like manga chapters, they come out in volumes, so that doesn't have to be as regular, could be 1-2 volumes per year, or more. If you manage to get a Light Novel translated into Japanese then you'd have a theoretical shot at seeing an anime created of your work. This is still really unlikely, but much more likely than becoming a true blue mangaka.

RedRoseFring said:
As long as Togashi isn't your model.

html said:
it clearly is.

Gotsupermilk said:
I envy you to have a dream that hasn't been crushed...I want to be a writer for books/comics/movies/videogames its just never gonna happen for me...good luck on your dream

-Linus- said:
I say go for it. Move to Japan, and if you don't succeed, just join the JAV industry.

Cyaegha said:
Go away.

HxH_fan said:

what is JAV?

Kokororin said:
Give up kiddo

Kokororin said:
And you didn't even master your English seeing by your posts talking about Japanese would be even harder

Kokororin said:
And then you need to master your drawing skills

j0x said:


Japanese Adult Video, basically porn industry of japan

HxH_fan said:


No.



As for someone who learned this language only for 2 years in middle school, I think Im speaking English very well.



Have you ever seen any of my drawings? Nope. So how can you tell if my drawings are or are not good enough? lel



thats...gross