Essei Manga Matome ~30-nen Akiramezu ni Mangaka ni Natta Nīto no Ohanashi~ - Ch. 1 - The story of a Neet who didn't give up for 30 years to Become a …

[MangaDex]

 

[capiris]

Very true of art. If you fail at being an artist for years and nothing you make can relate to others through your work? Talk about your failures and downfall.

Or become a hentai artists.

 

[KyoHisagi]

As someone who has been drawing on and off and completely fell off the life... this hits way too close to the home. I'll follow it with great interest

 

[Midoriha]

Hearing about mangaka's career and life is always interesting, and someone making it so relatively late is really rare to see too, and doubly so considering the niche topic of it.
Big mood indeed. Really curious to see how she ended up getting out of the pit.

 

[Nov152000]

Too much narration for now. Also I don't really believe in age as a factor of success, I think the generation matter more. This 2020s is way rougher to have success as a manga artist. People back then have it easier specially the 90s.

 

[Bireus]

Wait she did the Jeweler maid? That diamond encased dense of a manga? Holy shit.

 

[MagnaDrake]

Too much narration for now. Also I don't really believe in age as a factor of success, I think the generation matter more. This 2020s is way rougher to have success as a manga artist. People back then have it easier specially the 90s.

Really depends on what you mean by success. Nowadays its really hard to get serialized by a magazine and have stable income from said serialization, yes, but the internet has made it very possible for you to self publish a manga and gain direct support from fans via Fanbox/Patreon and a whole lot of other sites. Those self published manga then can also put you on the radar of some smaller publishers/magazines.

Back then, the only way for you to have a shot on becoming mangaka was either submitting a hellish amount of one-shots to a magazine/manga award, or train as an assistant under an established mangaka.

 

[DerpyVenom]

Blue Period

 

[Vmpslushie]

I could have sworn I read somewhere that this artist passed away.

 

[KajurN]

Reading this there's two things that came to mind, one that i'm surprised she's almost 40, and two that it made sense it took her this long to find some success since her art on jeweler's maid is pretty rough by most standards, and like someone else here said how dense it is in dialogue.

She probably found her niche now, among other victorian type seinen authors. Good for her

 

[Sprocket]

The journey of a manga-ka can be an unexpected one, like how Kazuki Takahashi spent fifteen years making one shots and anime tie-ins before hitting it big with Yu-Gi-Oh, or how Takashi Hashiguchi didn't have another big hit after Yakitate Japan and spent a few years doing hentai doujinshi under 'Hassytant'
You just never know when you're gonna go big or burn out

 

[EchoGirl]

relatable but at least it worked out for her

Can't imagine being passionate/interested for long enough to stick with the same career from like elementary