ネーム作りのノウハウならマンガスクール「はまのマンガ倶楽部」

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I grew up in Yokohama, born in Kyoto. Currently living in Yokohama. 

 

The manga I bought for the first time in childhood was the "Astro Boy" drawn by Osamu Tezuka.

That led me to love manga

 

I just drew a manga if I had time and paper.

However, without making a story, I was just drawing pictures..

 

At that time, I thought that manga was a hobby for me.

So I entered the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Shinshu University, a national university in Japan.

 

At university I joined a light music circle, not a manga research circle.

I was devoted to amateur band activities.

I was in charge of the keyboard and drums

 

The representative manga that was popular at that time

For example, "Dr. Slump", "Urusei Yatsura", "Touch".

 

 

I liked anything as long as it was a manga.

However, I did not draw manga by myself almost at this time.

 

After graduation, I got a job at a computer game company.

But in my mind, I continued to feel that one day I should properly face manga.

So, while working at a company, I used a pen for the first time in my life to draw 78 four-frame comic works.

 

I brought my work to three publishers, Shogakkan, Kodansha, and Shueisha.

And my work was selected by Shueisha's Young Jump magazine.

 

With this opportunity, I left the company I worked for two years.

I worked on story manga in earnest.

In the weekly magazine Young Jump,

I won a monthly award and a semiannual award.

 

However, it was only here that I succeeded.

As I had not worked on manga stories so far, I didn't have a definitive manga production experience, so it soon went wrong.

 

I couldn't make the next piece, and I gradually moved away from Shueisha.

Then for about a year, I was forced to draw illustration cuts instead of manga in the planning magazine of Take Shobo.

 

After that, I was lucky.

With multiple monthly magazines

I had the opportunity to draw a series of manga.

And I continued to gain experience

 

Then I have lived as a minor but manga artist until today

 

I'm sorry, but there is hardly anything that can be called my masterpiece.

If I dared to cite it as a representative work, that is  "Showa Baka Bayashi" (not already sold).

 

Currently I also draw manga for companies.

In addition, I am working on TL manga and manga original works on the Internet using another pseudonym.

 

I have also worked as a lecturer for manga courses in vocational schools since 2000.