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Ribon Festa 2013

Posted in Anime, art, Guides, How to be a Mangaka, Japan, Life, Manga, Manga competitions, Manga recommendations, Mangaka ni naritai, People-watching, Photos, Things I love about Japan on April 8, 2013 | 6 Comments »

Yesterday, I did something that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time!! Woot! You know JUMP Festa, right? The big yearly free festival that JUMP puts on in December for all of their properties? I even had my art on display there when I worked for Konomi-sensei!　Well, there is a Ribon Festa too, [...]

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How to become a Mangaka, part 1: Getting Started!

Posted in How to be a Mangaka, Manga on September 20, 2012 | 41 Comments »

I think you’ve all waited long enough! Let’s get started!! Want to know how to become a manga artist? Then, READ ON my friends! “MANGA IS WHAT I WANT TO DO IN LIFE!” If you see a picture like the above and have that thought, or if you are just curious about what goes into [...]

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Coming (really) soon.. how to be a mangaka!! :)

Posted in Guides, How to be a Mangaka, Japan, Manga, Manga competitions, Mangaka ni naritai on September 11, 2012 | 8 Comments »

A long time ago, I started writing a blog post on “How to be a Mangaka” in my old blog! It was really well received, and I was really proud of it. People ALWAYS ask me to continue it! So I will!! Actually, I am going to rewrite it from the beginning! My perspective has [...]

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Working as an assistant on The Prince of Tennis p22

Posted in Life, Manga, Mangaka ni naritai, Prince of Tennis, Tenimyu, The past on September 8, 2012 | 5 Comments »

To see a list of all of the posts in this series, click here. (*^-^*) I am still waiting for news on my visa, and it’s a little bit like sitting on a hot-plate.. with ants running all over you! I can’t sit still, and I’m having trouble concentrating. So, I thought, let’s distract myself [...]

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Culture Japan Night ♪

Posted in Akihabara, Anime, Celebrations, Japan, Japan travel, Life, Manga, People-watching, Photos on August 25, 2012 | 13 Comments »

I really need to get out of my shell and socialize a bit more..! Thinking that, I forced myself to get out of the house when I was invited to Danny Choo’s Culture Japan night! It was last night in Akihabara, the otaku mecca of Tokyo (so to speak)♪ I actually had a lot of [...]

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Manga recommendation – Ranma 1/2 ^-^

Posted in Anime, Manga, Manga recommendations on August 21, 2012 | 9 Comments »

Speaking of remiss, if I didn’t recommend Ranma 1/2, I would be a very, very bad person! Rumiko Takahashi is a comedy goddess! I’ll say this again: RUMIKO TAKAHASHI IS A GOMEDY GODDESS! Ranma 1/2 was really popular when I first got into manga– basically everybody had heard of it, even if they weren’t reading [...]

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Manga recommendation – 20th Century Boys ^-^

Posted in Life, Manga, Manga recommendations on August 20, 2012 | 6 Comments »

I can’t recommend manga and not recommend this. To leave it out of any list would be a travesty, because it is that good. 20th Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa, is, hands-down, one of the best-written suspense (drama?) mangas out there. It’s part of the seinen genre, which basically means “older boys.” But, like most [...]

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