Mangaka

Phloup said:
It's an incredibly tedious task to become a mangaka, let alone a foreign mangaka.

First off, you should learn to write Japanese, as publishers will pretty much disregard anything you submit if it's in your native language.

Also, I'll assume that you are currently not living in Japan. In that case, the only way I know of getting published is by creating (Japanese) webcomics on Twitter and pixiv. Afterwards, if your series gets popular enough, it may get published physically.

But then again, I don't know much about the industry as a whole, you may still have to meet up with an editor, so I'm not sure if this is actually realistic. You'll probably have to ask someone who is more knowledgeable than me about this.

Maybe you could submit something to Shounen Jump Rookie, but I don't really know how this works. So, once again, you'll have to ask someone who is more knowledgeable. But from what I've seen, you submit a manga, and if it wins in a contest or something, it'll get published in a magazine or on Shounen Jump+.

There's also the Tezuka Manga Award, where, this year, you could submit your manga in English, with the 1st and 2nd place getting published in Weekly Shounen Jump. However, this may have happened because it was the 100th anniversary of the award. So you'll have to see if they still accept foreign entries next year.


But as a whole, it's highly unrealistic to become a foreign mangaka, and I genuinely think it may be somewhat impossible.

Poulain said:
If you succeed in mastering Nihongo, getting through immigration hurdles and whatnot, avoiding and/or ignoring gaijin discrimination, getting hired in a Japanese company, surviving competitions between mangakas.. then yes, it is possible.