This means that a mangaka wrote a manga with a character similar to themselves! While the mangaka character isn't always a ...

[Laughs] A weekly series mangaka will many times have three or four assistants – sometimes as many as eight, as I've witnessed when visiting a prominent mangaka's studio – to aid him or her in ...

The life of an artist can be hard: Long, arduous hours working with only your thoughts and assistants to keep you company. In the case of overworked mangaka Aito, his attempts to merge the two are ...

Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant, whose life seem to be stuck around his exhausting but low-paying job, unfulfilled dreams, strange hallucinations and unsatisfying relationships.