Xiaobian is definitely not to let the friends who are enjoying the holiday now feel some sense of "guilt", just to tell you that even if those manga masters have been so successful, they are still on the road so hard!! I just want to say to the cartoonists who have been bringing us excellent works for decades, "I have been very grateful!" "Let's put our knees together to the masters!"
Akira Toriyama, masterpiece "Dragon Ball", "Alare"
Birthplace: Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: April, 5 1955
Akira Toriyama's famous work "Alare" and his masterpiece "Dragon Ball" are extremely popular and widely acclaimed all over the world. His works were serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shonen JUMP, ranking first in popularity and one of the absolute aces, very popular with readers of all ages, and also influenced many younger generations of manga artists, directors and other characters, including Eiichiro Oda and Kishimoto Kishimoto, who praised Akira Toriyama as a god-like being.
And "God" requires perseverance as a human effort.
After reading the above picture, I don't know what you think?
Because Alare is a unitary story structure, each story is independent and incoherent, it is difficult to think about interesting and fresh stories, the early proficiency is not as good as the later stage, and the painting is more cautious and careful, and it takes a relatively long time.
During the Dragon Ball series from 1984 to 1995, he published high-quality manuscripts almost every week. During this period, he also worked as an illustrator for "Dragon Quest". Sleep only four hours a week in its heyday! In the first year of the series, I slept every three days, and the highest record stayed up for six consecutive days, so I also got "line-drawing allergy" and didn't do much.
In addition, Toriyama generally only hires a manga assistant at most, and Toriyama's assistant generally only needs to help him blacken and wipe pencil marks, draw speed lines, etc. Very easy work, so most of the pictures, including the background, are done by Toriyama himself. In the middle and late stages of Dragon Ball, in the absence of an assistant, it was only Toriyama's independent drawing, coupled with such a fast drawing speed, so it is inevitable that some places in the manga that have forgotten to be blacked out or scrawled handwriting are sometimes inevitable. However, this does not affect the charm of the work at all, but this fast and accurate brushwork makes people feel more charming, worthy of being a comic book master.
Better than your drawing, but also faster than your drawing, this is how the labor model is refined!
Eiichiro Oda, masterpiece "One Piece"
Place of Birth: Japan Kumamoto
Date of birth: January, 1, 1975
Eiichiro Oda developed a keen interest in the "manga artist" industry since he was four years old, and began his own manga writing in high school. Although One Piece swept the world for many years to dominate the manga sales charts, Oda still worked hard and rarely stopped publishing, and in 2015, "One Piece" was recognized as the world's largest single-author circulation series of manga, breaking the Guinness World Record.
Here's what Oda says: Although manga is just entertainment to pass the time, I am very happy whenever I see readers say, "Through talking about "One Piece", I have met new friends and found objects". The record of this number makes me feel the possibility of connecting so many people through this comic. For the seniors in the manga industry, the people who have helped me, and the readers, I will never forget my gratitude to everyone, and I will continue to work hard to draw works that will not be worthy of this record.
Since the serialization of "One Piece" in 1997, Oda has been suspended for quite a short time, coupled with the huge worldview of the OP itself and the complexity of the picture, resulting in an unusually large workload, getting up at 5 o'clock every day, going to bed at 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, except for eating, all of which are drawing manga.
Oda once said: If you have a vacation, you want to take your family out for a trip, you can do it anywhere, anyway, you want to go out for a walk, but you can't go out. One of the people who had taken good care of me before died, and I didn't even go to the vigil.
The large-scale top war chapter of that year once put his body in a state of overload. People around him advised him to take a long vacation at the end of the war chapter, which was originally set at least three months, but was forcibly shortened to one month by Oda.
As die-hard fans of pirates, we all hope that Oda can take care of his body and rest when he wants to rest, whether it is another decade or twenty years, we will always follow.
Kishimoto Kishi, masterpiece "Naruto"
Birthplace: Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: November, 1974
Kishimoto's background, like most manga artists, is a remake of the protagonist Naruto. When he went to school, his grades were extremely unsatisfactory, and he often ranked at the bottom of the class, and then he was admitted to the University of Fine Arts. This was not a sudden decision, as early as Kishimoto Elementary School, he was greatly influenced by Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, had a special love for manga, and secretly scribbled in the blank space of the textbook. In high school, I drew my own short story, and only dared to give it to my family and classmates for advice, but because of the poor response, I did not take it to submit in the end.
After high school, he won the Shueisha HOP STEP Award for a short story "Robot" and has been a manga artist ever since. As far as the painting style is concerned, Kishimoto's painting style is free, and his grasp of the fierce battle scene is also very in place. After many failures and trials, he finally succeeded with a Naruto movie.
Now that Naruto is over, Kishimoto can finally take a good rest, but the 15-year weekly magazine series is now looking back on a fairly long time. In July 2013, Kishimoto posted a week's worksheet in an interview with the media, describing his work and rest in an interview, revealing that he had been overloaded since 2011, and saying that "he is not young, maybe he will go to that world sooner." Kishimoto worked 19 hours a day and slept only 3 hours a day for the first two days before the deadline, and after handing in the current issue of the manga, he immediately conceived the next issue of the manga, and slept 6 hours a day from 4 to 6 times a week.
No matter what, naruto finally came to an end, and before the next legend begins, please enjoy Kishimoto's long vacation.
Hiroshi Majima, masterpiece "Fairy Tail"
Birthplace: Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: May, 3 1977
In 1998, Hiroshi Majima's short story "MAGICIAN" won the 60th Kodansha Newcomer Manga Award, and in August of the same year, he published "BAD BOYS SONG" in FRESH MAGAZINE and made his debut as a professional manga artist. In 1999, Majima began his first feature-length series "RAVE" in Weekly Shonen MAGAZINE No. 32, which became a huge hit as soon as it was launched, and the manga series lasted for 6 years, until the 35th issue of MAGAZINE in 2005, which ended in 35 volumes. The success of this work is inseparable from the efforts of Hiroshi Majima, not to mention the novelty and change he has poured into the plot, and it is enough to explain the problem from the fact that he has never stopped publishing once in 6 years.
As one of Japan's younger manga artists, most of Majima's works are known in the anime world for their magical, adventurous, bloody, and funny styles. Majima's hand speed is amazing, and he can draw an average of 36 pages a week, which is twice that of ordinary manga artists.
During the weekly serialization of "Fairy Tail", Majima Hiroshi had four consecutive issues of "killing two birds with one stone", when other cartoonists had to explode their livers just one week, Majima Hiroshi showed his and his new wife Eiji in "The King of Explosive Manga" the same extraordinary drawing speed, and he drew various biographies, fanwai, and cross-publications on the basis of this non-stop publication, and did not forget to tweet pictures, and also had the leisure to draw covers and fan pictures for others... [Xiaobian has nothing to say, five bodies to the ground.
Hiroshi Arakawa, masterpiece "Fullmetal Alchemist"
Place of Birth: Hokkaido, Japan
Date of birth: May, 8 1973
The Arakawa family runs a farm in Hokkaido and also farms, so Arakawa has a great love for dairy cows, signs dairy cows, and even daily necessities are related to dairy cows. Before Arakawa became famous, she had a relatively difficult time, she had the problem of inheriting the family business, and her family agreed that her brother's way out would work until she was 25 years old, and at the age of 25, Arakawa submitted an article to the monthly magazine "Shonen GANGAN", and won the ninth manga award of "Shōgan" with a short story "STRAY DOG", and has officially debuted since then.
After winning the prize, Arakawa used the prize money to move from Hokkaido to Tokyo, and while working, he drew a short story for "Shonen Gangan", and published "Shanghai Demons and Ghosts" in "Shonen Gangan" in May 2000. During this period, she also served as an assistant to Hiroshi Eto (the author of "Gollum Magic Circle"), working as an assistant while also drawing manga, this time was Arakawa's hardest days, her part-time job included courier, selling lunch boxes, guards, etc., but it was also this time that Arakawa trained from an ordinary contributor to a hot-blooded manga artist, and it was during this time that her skills and spiritual training were achieved.
Once, Arakawa drew a 60-page short story of "Fullmetal Alchemist of Steel" to the editor-in-charge, who felt that there was room for development in this subject, so he asked Arakawa to develop this short story into a serial, so in August 2001, "Young GANGAN" had the first episode of "Fullmetal Alchemist".
When Arakawa serialized "Fullmetal Alchemist", she slept only 3-4 hours a day, sometimes busy with farming all day, and when asked when she drew manga, she replied: Draw at night, cut the sleep time. My sleep time is not enough, it does not hurt to sleep well at night, when I work, I can steal a sleep, and my body can hold up. For example, when you go to the farm after eating, when you are not too busy, you will sleep for 5-10 minutes, all of which are used to supplement sleep with some trivial small time. Moreover, Hiroshi Arakawa still maintained intermittent serialization during her pregnancy, which is indeed the conscience of the industry.
Akira Amano, masterpiece "Tutor HITMAN REBORN!"
Date of birth: June, 22 1973
Amano is rather low-key, and in the "Author's Words" of Young Magazine and Weekly Shonen Jump, he almost always discusses topics such as wind poetry, insects, and food, and rarely mentions himself. The feature is the inclusion of onomatopoeia words in a conversation. Raise cats. I have a lot of communication with serial cartoonists. However, it never appeared in front of the reader. In November 2002, he won an award for the Game Planning Book (ホッツン・アイス) in the Creative Department of Game Koshien.
The manga "Tutor HITMAN REBORN!" was serialized in Weekly Shonen JUMP in 2004 and ended in 2012, with 42 volumes, and the characters in the work have a high popularity, which has not faded to this day, and in the more than 8 years of weekly magazine serialization, the author Akira Amano has not suspended a single issue, not once! It is really a labor model among labor models, which is admirable.
Nobuyuki Fukumoto, his masterpiece "Koji" series
Place of Birth: Japan Kanagawa
Date of birth: December, 10, 1958
When I first started working as an assistant, Fukumoto, who had never painted high-level paintings, mainly did chores such as cooking. In 1980, he published the "Monthly Shonen Champion" with the title of "Please Take Care!" Pure Love General debuted. After that, he did not have much success, and while working in places such as chicken soup noodle shops to make a living, he continued to apply for the "Chiba Tetsumi Reward" and lived a life that did not start for a long time. In 1987, he won the 4th Chiba Tetsumi Award for "ワニの First Love". Moreover, although he could make the right money by working part-time, he thought that "he should concentrate on manga", so he quit his job at the age of 24 and cut off the way out.
In the 1980s, when Japan's economy was booming, he decided that gambling comics would be a bestseller and that it would be easier to get started at work, so he began to draw gambling comics. At the end of the 1980s, "Heaven" began to be serialized in "Modern Mahjong Gold". This work was reprinted and became Fukumoto's first popular work, which also made him famous as a manga artist. Since then, there have been more gambling themes in his works, and he has become a popular writer with the "Legend of Fighting Cards" serialized in "Modern Mahjong" and "Silver and Gold" that draws the deceitful world of the unavoidable and serialized in "Action Pizazz".
Since 1996, he has serialized "Gambling Apocalypse" in the Weekly Young Magazine (and "Gambling Breaking" and "Gambling Fallen Heaven" are collectively referred to as the "Kaiji" series). Since October 2007, it has been serialized in "Weekly Shonen Magazine" in "Gambling Overlord Zero". Now, "The Legend of Fighting Cards", "The Legend of the Gambling Overlord Zero Gambling Ghost" ("Weekly Shonen Magicine") and "Gambling Fallen Heaven and Also Chapter" (Weekly Youngmagazine) are being serialized at the same time.
A weekly magazine, a bi-weekly magazine, and a monthly magazine serialized at the same time are not something that ordinary people can do, but after reading his painting style, you will understand. Fukumoto's style of painting has characteristics that have not changed since his debut (angular face, sharp chin, protruding nose, etc.), and there are two different evaluations of this: poor painting and strong painting ability (the author himself admits that he has no painting skills).
Akimotoji, masterpiece "Oolong Police Station"
Birthplace: Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Date of birth: December, 11, 1952
He was raised by his mother after his father's death at the age of nine. In the third grade of elementary school, he began to depict manga. After graduating from high school, as an animator, he tried to participate in the Old Bug Productions Company, but did not pass the bug making recruitment test. But under the introduction of Worm Making, he entered the Dragon's Son Production. In 1976, he began to participate in the newcomer award with "Oolong Police Station", and has been serialized for 40 years after a short break in 1976, making it the longest-running manga work recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. Other works include "The Taiping Of The New Yuan Lu" and "Bullet Marks on Arrival and Going".
What is a national comic? First of all, the time is long, "Oolong Police Station" is the longest funny comic in the "Weekly Shonen JUMP" series; secondly, it is serialized in the top comic magazine, standing with countless newcomers of the same generation; again, other cartoonists have to be impressed by it, and decades of continuous filling in the pit are not normal people, which shows its powerful small universe ~ ~ This is a model of national comics Ah...
Takao Saito, masterpiece "Skull 13"
Birthplace: Waka Prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: November, 3 November 1936
No reader in this world wants to see the author open the skylight, and no editor wants to see the author drag the manuscript, "Please work wet to death!" "You can work without sleeping!" These words sound cruel, but we should see that there is pressure to make progress. "Skull 13" author Takao Saito has been debuting for 60 years, the comic has never been delayed in 47 years, the teacher said that this is what professional manga artists should do [tearful / (ㄒoㄒ) / ~ ~], after all, they have earned a fee and have a reputation, and the content can not live up to the expectations of readers, and cannot drag the manuscript.
Saito Sensei is now 80 years old, and the skeleton 13 single book has also reached the 180th volume. The teacher debuted at the age of 19, drew a loan book comic to the age of 28, and the readership was mainly young people from outside the factory and shop. After the decline of the Loan Manga, he was reluctant to give up the generation with the highest birth rate in Japan (1947-1949), so he persuaded the magazine publisher to let him draw a continuous manga that adults would also read. At that time, there were no youth manga magazines in Japan, and kodansha and elementary school hall only produced children's manga, and finally the Yoshibunsha Weekly Manga TIMES agreed to draw him a 20-page album. Skull 13 has been serialized in the Elementary School Hall's Big Comic since 1968, and the teacher is proud that he has never dragged a draft for 47 years.
Osamu Tezuka, representative works such as "Astro Boy", "Firebird", "Doctor Strange Black Jack" and so on
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Date of birth: November, 3 November 1928
Japanese manga artist, animator, doctor, doctor of medicine. His original name was Osamu Tezuka (born on the birthday of Emperor Meiji, so he was named "Zhi"), and because he loved insects, he changed his original name "Zhi" to the Japanese name of a walking insect that is pronounced very similarly in Japanese. The Kanji character is written "to cure insects", and Osamu Tezuka has since become his pen name. At the same time, he still uses his original name Tezuka in the name of medical scientist. He is also the first manga artist in Japan to introduce the assistant system and corporate management, and is known as the "god of manga" in the Japanese manga industry, with representative works such as "Astro Boy" (Japan's earliest TV animation work), "Firebird", "Strange Doctor Black Jack", and has drawn more than 400 volumes of manga in his lifetime, which is the highest-yielding and hardest-working manga artist now.
When it comes to Osamu Tezuka, many people's first reaction is "genius", but we all know that genius is 1% talent plus 99% diligence. Art has never tolerated laziness and opportunism, and without years of practice, the so-called "genius" can only be a flash in the pan.
In the eyes of others, manga creation is a kind of "hellish suffering" life, but Osamu Tezuka does not care, and has maintained a normal heart for decades, drawing an average of more than 200 original manuscripts per month, and even drawing more than 600 copies a month at most [...] This is indeed something that only God can do." Such a high yield is not unrelated to his diligence.
From the age of 10 until his death, for half a century, Osamu Tezuka's entire world revolved around manga, and after becoming famous, he continued to scroll day and night: lying on his bed, "in close contact with the whole face"; in bumpy cars; in the customs of the airport, and even in the Shinkansen train, he also continued to paint selflessly. It is normal for children to grow up, but for the Tsuka family, this is almost an unimaginable luxury. The prevailing dinners and cocktail parties among artists are often dismissed as "useless" by Osamu Tezuka, but it is not that he is unsophisticated, but he is obsessed with creation, rather than wasting time on the banquet, "it is better to come back and draw a manuscript" [Daimyo, you are right.
If you do your craft to the extreme, you will naturally sublimate it into art. However, the transition from craftsman to artist is never easy, requiring a hundred or even a thousand times more effort. Osamu Tezuka's success is largely due to his diligence and dedication, but also inseparable from his critical vision and tireless revision, and he is a thorough "perfectionist": he pursues perfection in creation, and never gives up without paying a hundred distractions. From the initial idea, to the sketch of one stroke after another, until the final draft, even if it is just a small inconspicuous stone and a trace of cloud in the background, he does not tolerate the slightest sloppiness and slackness.
Some netizens showed the number of his serials in 1977, which also stunned many people.
Osamu Tezuka's 1977 serial works are as follows:
Doctor Strange Black Jack (Weekly)
"Three-Eyed Boy" (Weekly)
MW Gas Storm (semi-monthly)
The Buddha
"Firebird Looking at the Hometown"
The Amazing Unicorn
《Story of the Holy Square》
《Rare Aesop Story》
《Tenteke March》
Metamorphosis Stories
In this regard, many netizens exclaimed: "49-year-old Osamu Tezuka, this vitality is not lost to the 19-year-old!" "It's a monster-like existence!" "Really a respectable person." "Can this disease of not painting and death be transmitted to Fujian?" ......
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