Can I become a mangaka without being japanese?

Yes, but likely not a well known one.

Try coming up with your own style rather than biting off manga.

>>155333606
Boichi is a gook and publishes in WSJ

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>>155333606
>he can't speak japanese
>he can't write
>he can't draw
>yet he still wants to draw comics for the japanese market

>>155333606
post your work

>>155333606
>What is Scott Pilgrim

>>155333606
You can but I don't see why you should. There are plenty of western comics that blend Japanese artstyles with western ones that look nice, why not try doing that yourself? Come up with your own blend and release something here that might get picked up in Japan as well.

>>155333606
As long as you can write in Japanese, sure.

I'd also help to understand the "real" Japanese culture and not the one that anime presents you.

>>155334343
Use Japanese translating staff

>>155333606
We call those comic book artists.

>>155333606
>What is Da Hootch

>>155333606
Like any artistic endeavor, the problem is getting recognition in the field so that people want to publish your work.
You're competing with people who speak the language and are native to the culture, so unless you have amazing skills there's no reason why your work would get singled out before any of the thousands of native Japanese would-be mangaka.

>>155333606
You don't have to be Japanese but you need to be pretty fluent in the language. There are even college exchange programs to get into drawing manga if you know enough Japanese to live there.

>>155333606
Shindol is a half jap and lives in NYC so yeah.

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>>155333606
Maybe, but it would be hard. Manga industry is very conservative. First try to web comics or doujinshis.

>>155333606
Just draw a manga using a sketch book or using computer program.
I'm currently learning, I might post my work on /a/ someday.

>>155333606
Only porn.

>>155333606
You need to be very fluent on moonglyphs to be a mangaka.
The other option is doing pseudo-manga and publishing it through Image or any other hipster comic press.

>>155333606
Many of illustrators/artists are not Japanese.
The problem is you need to know how their shit works, like language, habits, etc.

Just make english animu-style comics. Plenty of people lap that shit up.
Just look at Avatar or RWBY.

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I'd say yes if you were based out of and published in Japan and wrote in Japanese. Good luck.

>>155335237
Even the Japs seem to love RWBY.

>>155335817
Japanese have notoriously shit taste, so that sounds about right

>>155334343
Nani the fuck did you just fucking iimasu about watashi, you chiisai bitch desuka? Watashi’ll have anata know that watashi graduated top of my class in Nihongo 3, and watashi’ve been involved in iroirona Nihongo tutoring sessions, and watashi have over sanbyaku perfect test scores. Watashi am trained in kanji, and watashi is the top letter writer in all of southern California. Anata are nothing to watashi but just another weaboo. Watashi will korosu anata the fuck out with vocabulary the likes of which has never been mimasu’d before on this continent, mark watashino fucking words. Anata thinks anata can get away with hanashimasing that kuso to watashi over the intaaneto? Omou again, fucker. As we hanashimasu, watashi am contacting watashino secret netto of otakus across the USA, and anatano IP is being traced right now so you better junbishimasu for the ame, ujimushi. The ame that korosu’s the pathetic chiisai thing anata calls anatano life. You’re fucking shinimashita’d, akachan.

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>>155334637
>What is megatokyo

>>155336244
I think this copypasta has more instances of watashi in it than conjunctions

>>155336300
This image screams early newgrounds and devianart to me.

>>155336427
It's from like 2002-5 so yes

Yuu Kamiya is BR and has a light novel, manga and anime, so yes.

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Un-ironically yes, OP.
Even someone like Mark Crilley who makes shitty art and writes garbage stories has gotten published in Japan
If you make a work, it will sell at least some.
Practice every waking moment and you will publish; literal children publish manga and LN's in Japan.
If your manga has a distinct 'japanese' aesthetic, story, and characterization the Japanese publishers will publish the work.
Publishers only care about one thing "will it sell", it does not matter if your art is bad and your stories are swiss cheese...all that matters is making them believe that it can sell.
Learn the language, learn the art, learn the narratives

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>>155335237
>Avatar
Japan actually didn't like Avatar.

>>155333606
No Game No Life Author is Brazilian.

>>155333606
Why? Being a light novel author should be easier. No drawing skills required and the deadline for novel authors is less stressful than deadlines for manga authors.

>>155333606
There are mangaka who aren't Japanese

They also know how to draw, live in Japan, read & speak Japanese, and so on.

>>155335166
>The other option is doing pseudo-manga and publishing it through Image or any other hipster comic press.
I would consider doing this except my content would be too un-PC for the Western market.

>>155333606
There are plenty of illustrators who aren't Japanese.

>>155333606
Sure. Many mangakas use a different name to protect their identity so you can do that. Also learn to speak, write and read nip and you're off to a good start (don't worry it's actually pretty easy when you get a hold of it).

Just write isekai trash instead

>>155340222
NEVER

>>155336508
Look at the bottom of the image. It says 2004.

Isn't Shindol murikans ?

>>155335010
He was born in NYC but he lives in Tokyo.

>>155337059
Probably because the Chinese are the good guys and they're the bad guys.

>>155333606
Lots of non-Japanese people become famous illustrators in Japan. You might have a better chance doing that.

>>155340745
how about something /a/ actually wants?

>>155334343
I read your post with Kaiji narrator voice. It fits it well.

>>155336244
saved.

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>>155333606
>not japanese
>mangaka

>>155333606
Some weeaboo went to some generic Japanese college in japan and still managed to get hired by Nintendo.

Didn't even need to get into Tokyo University

>>155340661
What did the chinks/koreans think then?

huuuuuhito piggo go homu!!

>>155333676
I thought he was a jap who went to korear to live like ken

>>155333606
Aiming to be a famous illustrator seems less stressful than being a mangaka.

Be a famous enough illustrator, then you can live like Tony Taka who earns more income than most manga authors and essentially has no strict deadlines at all.

>>155333606
Nope

>>155337059
>>155335817

Would it be appropriate to call Avatar or RWBY
OEL Anime?

>>155345662
Or World Anime?

>>155333606
Just draw you cunt.
Literally requires nothing else other than paper and git fucking gud

>>155334714

You mean to say the Japanese aren't obsessed with hot springs, beaches and most importantly, cultural festivals?

>>155333606
NGNL was created by a brazilian known as "Yuu Kamiya", whose real name is "Thiago Furukawa Lucas".
I think as long as you can speak/write jap and use a fake name, you can be a mangaka.

>>155347545

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>>155336244
Nani the fuck did you just fucking iimasu about w, you chiisai bicchi desuka? Wagahai will let anata ga know that watashi wa graduated top of my class in Nihongo 3, and ore have been involved in iroirona Nihongo tutoring sessions, and watashi have over sanbyaku perfect test scores. ore wa trained in kanji, and washi wa the top letter writer in all of southern California. Anata are nothing to oresama but just another weaboo. Watashi will korosu anata the fuck out with vocabulary the likes of which has never been mimashita'd before on this continent, mark ore no fucking words. Anta thinks y can get away with hanashimasing that kuso to watashi over the intaaneto? Omou again, fucker. As we hanashimasu, ore wa contacting watashino secret netto of otaku across the USA, and antano IP is being traced right now so you better junbishimasu for the ame, ujimushi. The ame that korosu’s the pathetic chiisai thing anta calls anatano life. You’re fucking shinimashita’d, kuso gaki.

>>155347545
He has Japanese ancestry, though, so it doesn't count.

>>155348362
>oresama
neat touch

>>155347545
>NGNL was created by a brazilian
Yeah, I could somehow feel that.

You can, but you need to be fluent in moonrunes first.

I want to write a romantic comedy light novel for fun about a cute high school girl and her group of friends. 40 pages in so far. No idea what I'll do with it when I actually finish though. Who the fuck would want to read about the lovelife of Japanese girl written by 30 year old American neet virgin.

I'd rather get a Japanese partner and make an LN together with him. I'd mostly work on the setting and characters, and he'll flesh everything out and add that japanese midas touch.

>>155349163
>light novel
How many volumes do you plan on writing? Could you post the first page of it?

>>155333606
>hard cover shaman king
I want it

>>155333606
Yes.
If you had good at Japanese,manga skill.

Post your manga on pixiv.
Many mangaka were born in there.

>>155333606
maybe if you had a Japanese pen name and lived in Japan.

>>155333606
1. self publish web manga or find a hosting site like tapastic or Webtoons

2. hopefully get noticed.

3. luck

>>155349493
I'm struggling to fill just one book. It's my first piece of creative writing I've done outside of school and my pacing is full retard. MC already wins over her love interest and achieves the goal she and her best friend set for themselves setting up a good stopping point for the story. I feel like the second half can only be finished by going needlessly dark with MC and her love interest breaking up and MC sleeping around and developing an alcoholism problem and her love interest attempting suicide at some point. But I feel really bad because I'm attached to the characters and I can't bare to make them suffer.

>>155333606
You have to be able to draw cute girls.

You have to be able to draw them doing cute things.

If you can't then no.

>>155349163
>Who the fuck would want to read about the lovelife of Japanese girl written by 30 year old American neet virgin.
We would. As long as it's free.

>>155350034
>40 pages
>MC already wins over her love interest and achieves the goal she and her best friend set for themselves setting up a good stopping point for the story.
Mate, that sounds awful. While it would be a change of pace from the usual dragging out, it's just too fucking quick to let people get to know your characters. It would feel like two random people get in love, told by a third party. No details, or if there are, it will be info-dump storytelling, where people say everything about them to eachother outloud, without leaving any mystery.
I also really doubt that the average person on here would be able to write believable dialogue and characters.
That needless darkness you want to do, is really fucking dumb, as well. I suppose that I won't be able to grow as attached to them as you, and would not really feel any sympathy for them. Suicide? Alcoholism? You're making them sound rather gratuitous, without any real substance behind them. With possible flash-forwards? If you seem intent on doing it, then I see multiple way you could do it:
>sudden, abrupt flash-forward, with flashbacks (that would be touching in animated form - with bright colours, bloom, chromatic aberration and the like)
>multiple, short flash-forwards - really leaving no room for sympathy here, unless you can do it well, and give each part at least 30-40 pages
>darkness all the way, with one 10-page flashback; with a sequel novel exploring everything that went wrong in the past in detail, half from the MC's perspective, and half from her love interest's (interwoven parts, not half-half). The third volume would also explore both, but on their way to a new life - not necessarily with eachother.
>forward progression, with no timeskips and flash-forwards at all. Flashbacks are alright, though. It's going to be the hardest to write, but the most rewarding if you can pull it off properly.

>>155351843
I'm ESL; sorry for confusing you, but I thought "flash-forwards" referred to something akin to timeskips. Only when I hit "post" I realized that it meant tiny "peeks" of the future. Again, sorry.

>>155352158
Apology accepted.

>>155333606
web comic

>>155352207
But really, I feel like your thing would work best as a WN. If you do manage to find readers, you'll be able to pander to them to a certain degree, or do the exact opposite. Don't do that constantly, though. For example, if most readers want to see two background characters (you did mention some of them now, right?) fall in love, by all means, do mention them occasionally - so you can bait them have them at your mercy. If you want, make them angry - that works really fucking well, because only things like that cause shitstorms, and thus you get more readers because of the increased popularity; or pander to them. It's completely up to you. Don't even go that route if you don't want to.

>>155333606

no.

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>>155334343

He'll make it. I'd say learn Japanese, maybe make a 4-koma or something. Your art doesn't have to be totally perfect.

>>155352207
Can you post the first page, at least? Or the page you feel is the most eventful? I'm curious as to how an /a/non would write an (romcom) LN, from a perspective of a girl, nonetheless.

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>>155333606

OP, you can make it. If someone can draw a shitty webcomic only to have it remade by a good mangaka and have an anime, you can fucking make it.

>>155353025
>have an anime
He actually has two. Did you forget about Mob? It's the manga he is supposedly more passionate about writing, and his artstyle is slightly better in it. But fuck the artstyle; what matters is how engaging your story is.

>>155333606
>learn to really draw, don't try to emulate manga until you actually can draw other things
>learn to tell an entertaining story even if you can't come up with anything original or groundbreaking
>fucking work on it, don't get stuck in the "planning" phase. just put your pencil to the paper and start churning out whatever garbage you call your manga
>regardless of how bad it is, keep going. the only way you can improve is through practice and effort
>if you want to have any sort of japanese following, like some kind of filthy weeb white savior of the japanese manga-consumer base, LEARN JAPANESE you lazy shit

>>155353025
where would be an acceptable place to post it?
>>155353107
>japanese following
i don't give a fuck what anyone thinks long as i'm making more than min wage

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>>155333606
Yes. Radiant is french manga published in Japan
+ promoted by Murata

>>155353106

I honestly forgot that had an anime. But that too.

>>155353325

>where would be an acceptable place to post it?

Taptastic is a good bet. the art is just as mediocre. It's all about story.

>>155333606
>who is Shindol

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I was about to create a thread about coming up with your own anime, but seeing as there is a thread with similar discussion going on, I'll change things.
If you could create an LN, what it would be about?

>>155353325
Make your own website. I'm sure /a/ hates Homestuck but look at its author for clues on how to get started. Dude got his start on a forum for nerds posting shitty comics for fun, then made his own website and expanded from there once he had a few people who knew who he was.

>>155353799
If I could create my own manga it would be a goofy high fantasy trope-ridden comedy about goblin Napoleon's quest for world conquest.

>>155353799
>If you could create an LN, what it would be about?

It'd be about an old foreign man who discovered Tokusatsu at a young age but as he grew older, he's forgotten the name of his favorite series and goes on a Journey to Japan to find it for nostalgia. He's also discovering how much Toku has changed since then.

I really just wanted to make a SoL but the plot itself is eh.

>>155333606
You can do it, anon! Work hard and don't give up!
>>155336244
kek
>>155348862
This. Wagahai was also nice.

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>>155353799
would rather make a manga than LN
as for what it would be about i don't know yet. i would either toss together a bunch of memes, pander to /a/ or just create something original with a female lead

>>155353799
Basically Gochuumon, but with meat.

>>155340661
Or maybe because its the same shonen shit as always but made by the atomic bombers.

>>155353432
Whats the name of that french guy who draws the best traps?

the artist for no game no life is Brazilian and he became on of the most popular

>>155333606
If you have talent, connections and luck. Maybe.

>>155333606
Why manga?
Why not just draw your own graphic novel?

>>155355521
He's half nip.

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>>155333606
You can become a comic book writer or artist.

>>155355521
>artist
Didn't he get caught for tracing pixiv illustrations?

>>155353799
Would putting your character in agonizing pain and disembowelment everytime he is faced with with danger be too edgy?

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>anime-style

>>155333606
Sure, but it's hard work and most weebs don't have any drawing skill or discipline.

>>155351843
I know the pacing is retarded and the romance is rushed. I made almost zero planning and what I wrote is just kind of how it came out straight from my mind at the time I was writing. You're right in that I should have probably stretched it out longer. Everything is stiff a rough draft actually, mostly focusing on the dialogue and the story, I was going to go back and fill in the blanks with more descriptions to set each scene later on. Possibly add a few chapters to fill out the story so they don't seem so rushed. The whole story has several heavy handed references to Romeo and Juliet, so I felt like literally love at first sight would be somewhat appropriate. It's also part of the reason I thought about adding the suicide attempt in the later half, but everything so far has been just cute and lighthearted, so I'm still not sure if that's the route I want to take in the end. Ironically I think it's the two background characters that have nothing to do with the romance subplot were the better written ones with better character growth than the MC and the lover interest. I'll keep working on it I guess, maybe someday I'll share it with /a/.

>>155353432
this actually good anon?