Mangaka Musings 10/04/2020

Thoughts from the mangaka about their manga, lives and other random things.

By Jeric Llanes October 04, 2020

Undead Unluck
Yoshifumi Tozuka

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My second lead color pages! Thanks to all of you, another one of my dreams has come true!

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Special One-Shot
Koyoharu Gotouge

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It’s been a while! I’ve drawn Rengoku’s first mission for you!

Black Clover
Yuki Tabata

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The seven layers of the underworld were accidentally drawn as nine. Oops! And “the morning of two days from now” should be “three days from now.”

The Promised Neverland: Special Side Story
Kaiu Shirai

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Roboco and the Promised Neverland parody! (Love them!) I know you’re busy, but thank you so much, Miyazaki Sensei!

Posuka Demizu

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We’re back! I’m currently working on the pages for the next Promised Neverland story. Which character will it be about? Look forward to it!

My Hero Academia
Kohei Horikoshi

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Wasn’t it still August just yesterday? How is it almost the end of September? Time is passing too quickly.

Jujutsu Kaisen
Gege Akutami

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Hiramatsu-san designed a young Kugisaki for the anime. Amazing!

Dr. STONE
Riichiro Inagaki

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Boichi Sensei gave me shoes that make the same footprints as those that were placed on the moon!

Phantom Seer
Togo Goto

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I got all excited about the FF16 news, but I haven’t even played FF7R yet.

Chainsaw Man
Tatsuki Fujimoto

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I wanna go see the new Crayon Shin-chan movie, but I don’t have time.

Our Blood Oath
Kazu Kakazu

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I’m so glad it’s cooling down. Fall is the easiest season to live through. I hope to eat a ton of fruit.

Mission: Yozakura Family
Hitsuji Gondaira

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I’m so happy they are making a Hazbin Hotel series! I hope they keep the naughtiness and zaniness of the pilot episode.

High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku
Ryo Nakama

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The mysterious drink known as popcorn soda actually tastes like popcorn. Wow.

Mashle: Magic and Muscles
Hajime Komoto

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8868!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me & Roboco
Shuhei Miyazaki

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I often forget to draw the lines under Roboco’s eyes, so I decided to make sure to do all of them at the very end. But I forgot again.

Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin
Ryuhei Tamura

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Once I finish this week’s pages, I’m gonna go see Tenet. That’s what I’ve told myself every week…

We Never Learn
Taishi Tsutsui

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My son has started showing a lot of interest in bugs. I’m always nervous he’ll bring one home…

Moriking
Tomohiro Hasegawa

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I played Mario Sunshine for the first time in a while. I’m terrible at platforming now. Is this age?

Ayakashi Triangle
Kentaro Yabuki

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In the spring in Japan there will be ToLoveRu bunko editions and AyaTri graphic novel releases! I’m super busy, but it’s fun!

Agravity Boys
Atsushi Nakamura

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I played Powerful Pro Baseball 11 for over 1,000 hours. I can never hit against Matsuzaka and Ikawa.

Magu-chan: God of Destruction
Kei Kamiki

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My assistant told me about a game called Word Wolf. It’s so fun!

Twin Star Exorcists
Yoshiaki Sukeno

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The new arc starts next month. It would be fair to call it the final arc.

World Trigger
Daisuke Ashihara

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Yui-san, who attended the Tezuka awards with me 11 years ago, is my new editor. It’s great to have you!

Blue Exorcist
Kazue Kato

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This month it was mercilessly decided that volume 26 will have a lot of bonus pages (while looking up at the blue sky).

Platinum End
Tsugumi Ohba

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Is this related to Platinum End? October 4 is Angel Day…right?

Seraph of the End
Daisuke Furuya

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Lately, I’ve been making my miso soup base with shitake mushrooms.