Manga Artist Quotes

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this." But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all." His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.

I decided i want to be a manga artist when i grow up. If you want to know why, it's because of you. I know that you hurt a lot inside. An I know that manga makes you happy. If i can make manga, maybe I can help people like you be happy.

The innocent beauty of a young love, repeated and filtered by the minds of poetic and passionate young manga artists - no matter what gender - is the only art that brings together all complex forms of expression. 90s Shōjo Anime is the most important artistic occurance since the work of the Renaissance artists Leonardo and Michelangelo.

In 2011, I interviewed a skilful young manga artist who asked me not to reveal his name because he still needs to defer to his seniors in the industry. He has had some considerable publishing success, and explained that, although the competitions are in theory open, in practice he now feels he needs to work first for the company that has supported him, and this also influences his choice of subject matter.

Manga represents and extremely unfiltered view of the inner workings of their creator's minds. This is because manga are free of the massive editing and "committee"-style production used in other media like film, magazines and television. Even in American mainstream comics, the norm is to have a stable of artists, letterers, inkers, and scenario writers all under the control of the publisher. In Japan, a single artist might employ many assistants and act as a sort of "director," but he or she is usually at the core of the production process and retains control over the rights to the material created. That artists are not necessarily highly educated and deal frequently in plain subject matter only heightens the sense that manga offer the reader an extremely raw and personal view of the world. Thus, of the more than 2 billion manga produced each year, the vast majority have a dreamlike quality. They speak to people's hope, and fears. They are where stressed-out modern urbanites daily work out their neuroses and their frustrations. Viewed in their totality, the phenomenal number of stories produced is like the constant chatter of the collective unconscious -- and articulation of the dream world. Reading manga is like peering into the unvarnished, unretouched reality of the Japanese mind.

Once upon a time…there lived a young artist. Many of the works that he created seemed to have the spark of life within them, and they captured the hearts of the people. One of those people was another young man…who was entranced by the artist’s work. He wished to possess those works of art by any means possible. And in reality…their wishes were one and the same.