A Mangaka's Road to Japan

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Kakukaku Shikajika

Manga34 chAward Winning

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Akiko Hayashi has soaring but strangely specific dreams: to make a successful manga debut while still in school, have her favorite actor star in its adaptation, and end up marrying him. However, she is far from having the motivation or skills to realize these

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"Gundam" wo Tsukutta Otokotachi.

Manga32 chComedy

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

In 1978 animation director Yoshiyuki Tomino set forth to change the Japanese animation industry. For decades prior, Japanese science fiction had churned out numerous tales of semi-autonomous robots that would often come to the aide of humanity, but as someone

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Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san

Manga34 chComedy

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Honda is a skeleton, but more importantly, she is a bookseller. And she'll tell you from firsthand experience that the job of a bookstore employee is more challenging than it may seem to the average customer. Alongside her equally eccentric coworkers, Honda co

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Sensei Hakusho

Manga5 chComedy

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Sensei Hakusho depicts Kunio Ajino's experience as an assistant for the mangaka Yoshihiro Togashi.

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Capeta no Tanjou

Manga1 ch

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

An autobiographical one-shot about how Masahito Soda came into contact with Monthly Shonen Magazine and began the serialization of his hit series Capeta.

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Oitachi

Manga1 ch

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Mitsuru Adachi reflects on his career as a mangaka, 55 years after his debut.

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Kyonen no Yuki

Manga6 ch

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

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Watashi to Adachi Mitsuru to.

Manga1 ch

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

In celebration of Mitsuru Adachi's 55th anniversary of becoming a mangaka, Gosho Aoyama and Rumiko Takahashi contribute a manga essay about their friend and colleague.