Sep 11th 2009 By: Caleb Goellner
Is there another manga artist who has a schedule posted up on the web?! I myself aspire to be a mangaka but looking at this schedule makes my head spin. And with only 3 hours of free time, that's too little to live when your not drawing for an assignment!
October 07 2011 at 5:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyyes this is in terms of a comic artist working with an all ready establshed story, what about when its a creator artist (both story and writing) how diffrent is it then? schedule writing and if so how far? also when would one be able to start on comic?
April 16 2011 at 6:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis is the schedule of for a manga artist on weekly schedule. It is a misconception that all manga is published in weeklies.
There are actually tons of biweekly, monthly, bimonthly and even quarterly magazines too.
A average manga artist working on a monthly schedule would only have to draw 20, 30 or 40 pages in a month, while the average manga artists working on a weekly schedule would have to draw 60 to 80 pages every month.
Is this just for the artist? Or is the for the Takahashi-types who serve as both writer *and* artist? Crazy, either way.
September 13 2009 at 1:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI think this is just for the "art." The "art and story" types usually have storyboarding time cut in. Although, i think they might have more people helping.
December 30 2009 at 4:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Mangakas usually do both the art and dialogues, Takahashi is the norm,
not the exception. In Japan, people often enter the field of manga
because they to to *tell stories*, not because they want to draw.
so does that mean they have a large part in the writing or just co creator in the story?
April 16 2011 at 6:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate downIt's always amazing to me how much a mainstream manga-ka can accomplish. Take any mangaka for Jump for instance, like One Piece's Eiichiro Oda or Naruto's Masashi Kishimoto.
They have to create about 19 pages a week for the weekly publication, Jump Magazine, and usually a cover page to go with it. Despite the fact that they have assistants to help them out (whose jobs ranges from background drawings to inking depending on how involved the main mangaka is) you have to consider that most of them have to come up with a story, and so write AND draw it at a rate of 18-19 pages a week.
And what makes it seem even more unreal is how over here, most artists can't even meet a deadline of 22 pages a month.
how long does that hold up before all the days are filled with colors that denote "murder spree" and "locked in a padded cell?"
September 11 2009 at 1:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI though roughs were called a "NAME." Not a nemu...
September 11 2009 at 10:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replythey're called "Neemu" which is written in katakana.
when translated to english, it's "Name"
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