I don't want to be that person, but unfortunately I will be.
It's hard for me to believe that in the manga industry, so many creators get so seriously ill that they have to quit their jobs. With all the respect to every person who is actually really sick, it seems to me that often these excuses are actually so convenient for publishers to execute/force on mangakas - especially debuting ones.
I know plenty of industries where people work much harder (both physicaly and mentaly), with a whole range of toxic and dangerous compounds, and the level of people leaving work due to health deterioration is nowhere near what the manga industry presents.
It's terrible to me, that it seems that this is "the way" of get rid of unsuccessful debuty creators. I find it disgusting, how publishers are forcing artists to play the victim card, play on readers' emotions, forcing them to simply lie to their fans, and then making them quit from their already established communities, only so they (publishers) won't be "the bad" here. Really nasty behavior.
I would like to be wrong, but the more time I spend in this environment and the more manga I read, the more often I have the impression that what I am writing now is not just a weird theory from a man in a tin foil hat, but the actual appearance of this industry.
Of course I don't have any data to back-up my claims, it's all comming from my guesses, life experience and hunch.
And now you can roast me. But sorry, nothing will change my opinion in this matter.
It's hard for me to believe that in the manga industry, so many creators get so seriously ill that they have to quit their jobs. With all the respect to every person who is actually really sick, it seems to me that often these excuses are actually so convenient for publishers to execute/force on mangakas - especially debuting ones.
I know plenty of industries where people work much harder (both physicaly and mentaly), with a whole range of toxic and dangerous compounds, and the level of people leaving work due to health deterioration is nowhere near what the manga industry presents.
It's terrible to me, that it seems that this is "the way" of get rid of unsuccessful debuty creators. I find it disgusting, how publishers are forcing artists to play the victim card, play on readers' emotions, forcing them to simply lie to their fans, and then making them quit from their already established communities, only so they (publishers) won't be "the bad" here. Really nasty behavior.
I would like to be wrong, but the more time I spend in this environment and the more manga I read, the more often I have the impression that what I am writing now is not just a weird theory from a man in a tin foil hat, but the actual appearance of this industry.
Of course I don't have any data to back-up my claims, it's all comming from my guesses, life experience and hunch.
And now you can roast me. But sorry, nothing will change my opinion in this matter.
