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INTEREST: Love Hina, ComiPo! Creators Discuss Future of Manga




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mdo7



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:48 pm Reply with quote
hm, interesting conversation from Ken Akamatsu on the future of manga. I like to hear more on him.
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CliffSaos



Joined: 13 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:40 pm Reply with quote
# Akumatsu claims that editors at magazines running major titles are too fearful of making corrections to those major titles. As a result, the editors are not developing the necessary skills to guide new artists.
# Akumatsu said that he has “no intention in betraying” his print publisher Kodansha by releasing a new manga series through his J-Comi service.

Akamatsu

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And he's a visionary.
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Nayu



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:27 pm Reply with quote
The industry failing to guide the mangaka is why we have problems like the Champion Red manga.
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bravetailor



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:19 am Reply with quote
At some point in any creative endeavour involving artists and editors, the artist can supercede the editor and render them irrelevant just by sheer success and rep alone.

This is not altogether dissimilar to successful novelists and their editors, for instance.

This is why JK Rowling's earlier books in the Harry Potter series were much more compact and muscular than the fatty, pompous, long winded books that came out after the series had hit it big with the mainstream. The writer had effectively become too big for the editors to handle.

*ducks*

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st_owly



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:39 am Reply with quote
bravetailor wrote:
At some point in any creative endeavour involving artists and editors, the artist can supercede the editor and render them irrelevant just by sheer success and rep alone.

This is not altogether dissimilar to successful novelists and their editors, for instance.

This is why JK Rowling's earlier books in the Harry Potter series were much more compact and muscular than the fatty, pompous, long winded books that came out after the series had hit it big with the mainstream. The writer had effectively become too big for the editors to handle.

*ducks*

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No, it's completely true. Editors need to not be scared to rein in their proteges...
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