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>be me, 10 years ago
>be 8 years old
>be english boy (male)
>been reading manga and watching anime for about a year
>realise that my dream is to be a mangaka
>also realise that i'm absolutely awful at drawing, even in comparison to kids my age
>around 10yrs i realise that there are no non-japanese mangaka/manga artists
>from 11 -15, come up with ideas for manga, even though deep inside i knew that I'd never be able to do it because I wasn't born in Japan
>try to shove it all to the back of my mind
>be me, 16, almost 17
>drop out of sixth form because """smart but lazy"""
>have nothing to do
>realise how truly pointless life is
>get back into anime and manga
>start wanting to be a mangaka again
>still can't draw for shit, STILL not Japanese
Oh well, at least my mum is fine with harbouring a failure, and I have a good 400,000bong to fall back on.
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>there are no non-japanese mangaka/manga artists
What is Felipe Smith
What is Anike Hage
What is Micheal Arias (though he's actually an anime director)
What is M. Alice LeGrow.
What is half of the most popular artists on Tumblr and Deviantart in 2017
You'll obviously never be as famous as a Japanese mangaka in Japan, but you can still do something, get somewhere and achieve your dream. Just start practicing, and practice hard.
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