Name: Day in the Life of a Japanese Manga Creator
Uploaded: 2020-03-24T16:31:25.000Z
Duration: 15 min 9 s
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also known in Japanese as a mangaka living in Tokyo

He has a wife and kids but they don't stay with him in this apartment

as he rents this place out as a separate office

as sometimes he requires complete silence to work

Plus he sometimes uses this office apartment

By design his apartment office is only a short walk away from his home studio

It's typical for mangaka in Japan to work from their home

The first floor of his home is used for the office while the upper floors are for family use

So firstly in the morning, he always cleans the first floor bathroom since his home is also used as an office

It's important for him to provide a clean toilet or his assistants

All right, so it's about 6 o'clock in the morning and he's about to come through into the office

So this is a studio office all the extra desks are assigned to his assistants who'll be arriving later today

He built this house about five years ago and had this area designed specifically for his manga studio

It's a bit nicer and more modern compared to your stereotypical mangaka studio in Japan

popular love-comedy rensai in a japanese weekly shounen magazines since 2017

Rensai means it's been turn into a comic series in partnership with the publisher

Most of all mangaka (?) are Rensai satus as it signifies that the manga is popular enough for a weekly mass audience

But as soon as a manga is no longer popular

Publishers will usually cancel the series so manga can have the pressure to continue to produce and deliver high quality manga every week

And it's a critical part of the weekly publishing schedule as reiji's last full day before he needs to submit a genko

Which in Japanese means a final completed draft of the weekly manga to his publisher Kodansha

It's also launch day for his latest manga in the Weekly Shonen magazine

He usually draws a colored illustration to post on his Twitter account to promote the new release

I heard that many Mangaka have trouble making their weekly deadline, especially paper-based ones

But you seem so calm today, So that must make you that fastest mangaka in Japan right?

But he believes he learned more and more as he worked with various publishing editors overtime

And what was your first paid job and how much was it?

So he says the manga was about 55 pages with a colored title page, nine thousand yen per page

Which is about 82 dollars and the color title page was about double that

Which means he got about four thousand six hundred and seventy five dollars

That's pretty good for his first paid job, for those of you who aren't familiar with manga

Mangaka start by creating a rough sketch called Ne-Mu

which is reviewed by editors from the publishing company who review the sketch in red

Reiji told me that the ne-mu process takes the most time as it requires about four to five revisions

once editor satisfied with a sketch, a mangaka draws a final draft called genko inking the sketch now done digitally

and meticulously adding tones and filling drawings in black

So this is pretty much Reiji's morning, he gets here at 6:00 and he's just pretty much the drawers all morning

Very very simple, but it takes a lot of dedication and I think the staff doesn't come in until 10:00

So I guess we'll just wait for them to arrive.

So while he's working on his manga, let's go explore a little bit

So just right out to the office it looks like he has this like kind of little workout in gym area

It has a bicycle and he even has an exercise ball

So on the other side, what's also pretty cool is that he has a full-on wall as a chalk board if you go

And look he even has a slippers for he's assistants

And I think just over here there's another room

So this area it looks like another office space

Maybe let's get him to come inside here and explain a little bit more

Oh, I see he used actual models for his drawings, so can I ask you a favor?

So he's gonna let me draw right now. Like he just gave me the pen

All right, so I guess it's not that hard to be a mangaka, so easy right?

Wow you guys my line will be an episode 118 page 13, so check it out

Hey, did you hear the assistant call Reiji sensei which means teacher in Japanese?

It's typical for our assistants and editors to call professional mangaka sensei

In Japan there are certain jobs that are given the title sensei other than teachers like lawyers doctors

governors and mangaka as a way to show respect

Now that everyone's here he instructs the each person on what to do one by one and they share all the drafts in Dropbox

Which means that reiji rarely needs to get out of his seat to work with his assistance

So it usually has four to five assistants come in every Wednesday, but some mangaka hire ten assistants on a shift basis

It really depends though on each mangaka and how they like to run their studio

It's also interesting that each of them using different drawing tools

I guess it really depends on each Mangaka

And what makes them feel comfortable when they draw

did you work as an assistant back in the day?

So looks like all four staff have already arrived

Let's ask them a few questions to see how their jobs are like

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