Kibayashi Shin: Legendary Mangaka With Seven Names
This dapper man in the picture is a man so renowned in the Japanese manga industry virtually any industry person would know his name. Or perhaps more than one of his seven author names...
Comiket 100: Artist Sold 0 Works and Analyzes the Mistakes
An artist by the name of Yokotsuki Reiji wrote a blog about how they didn’t sell a single work at Comiket 100 that took place this past August and tweeted about it. Ironically, their...
Comiket: Do Artists Make Money at the Event?
On August 13 and 14, 2022, the commemorative 100th Comiket (Comic Market) happened in Tokyo, bringing in approximately 170,000 attendees.
Back in 2018, Abema News reported that the economic effect brought by Comiket was estimated...
Animators: Why Are They Paid So Poorly in Japan?
In the last few years, we saw Demon Slayer: Mugen Train become the highest-grossing animation in all Japanese film history as well as Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 become...