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Wednesday 4 December 2013

The youngest mangaka ...ever!



THE YOUNGEST SHOUJO MANGAKA


A surprisingly news comes from japan. The youngest mangaka in Nakayoshi is a 14-years-old schoolgirl. It’s a nice to know that a talented person like that exist in the world. Really give an anspiration and courage to give our best for us

From when she was 12


Nakayoshi’s youngest ever published mangaka in 26 years is a 14-year-old schoolgirl, and is by all accounts rather good.
3rd year Niigata middle schooler Sato Ito ties with the magazine’s previous record-holder of 26 years past, saying she “is a step closer to her dream and hoping to become skilled in a wide cariety of genres.”
Her debut title “To Aru Neko Kaburi Shounen no Himitsu” – a school love comedy about a boy who wears feline headgear – is to begin serialisation on the second of November in shoujo magazine Nakayoshi.
http://otakuhobby.com/the-youngest-shoujo-mangaka/

Dr.Vee:

Does age matter in manga debut? The optimistic manga school teachers would say no, what matters is the quality of your work. Unfortunately, ageism is an unspoken truth in manga industry. Young people are seen to have more potential to grow given their lifespan and physical strength, though good editors know better not to judge so quick. Older rookies have more life experience hence might have certain advantages to younger debutantes. One famous example is Yūji_Aoki, who debuted at age 44. He is best known for his 1990 debut manga Naniwa Kin'yūdō (ナニワ金融道?, literally The Way of Osaka Financing, colloquially translated as The Way of the Osaka Loan Shark), for which he won the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga[1] and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence.

I myself made my debut at Shonen Sunday, a major shonen manga publication, as a non-Japanese female aged 33, so don't let stereotypes bring you down! Anyone have a chance if you can proof yourself. May luck be ever in your favor.

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