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Shiro Moriya's Jump Rookie 2018 Interview

Jump Rookie, which has been producing serialized authors one after another, has added another new author to its roster. Shiro Moriya, the author of "Soloist In A Cage", which will be serialized from September 29th [2018], won the Bronze Rookie Award for " Souzou " on Jump Rookie and then later published " Soratobu Mogura " on Jump Plus. For this blog , we asked Moriya to let us interview him. --Why did you submit to Jump Rookie? Because I thought it would be the best shortcut to becoming a professional manga artist among the web submission sites. The fact that you can get comments from professional editors up to the tenth place in the ranking caught my attention, and I had been looking at it a lot before submitting so I wanted to get one myself. Souzou --Is there anything that has changed in your manga making as a result of having an editor in charge? When I was drawing by myself, I think I drew whatever I wanted, good or bad. After I got an editor, I sta...

Spy x Family's Tatsuya Endo & Shihei Lin Interview

It was about 13 years ago that Mr. Endo, who started drawing manga at a young age, met his current editor, Mr. Lin. SPY×FAMILY is the third series they've worked on together, and it's now an extremely popular series that has sold over 8 million copies through six volumes. In this interview, we'll be talking to the two members of this tag team. --- Endo's serialization debut was in "JUMP SQ." How did the two of you first meet? Tatsuya Endo : "I met Mr. Lin at the start of "TISTA" (his serial debut work from 2007). I submitted my first work to Jump magazine when I was in my first year of high school and later did in my second year. So Mr. Lin is the third person I've met since then. He was the first person younger than me, and when I first met him, I thought I was getting a light-hearted person (laughs). "TISTA" was set in New York, so we took a trip to NYC for an interview. Mr. Lin had just started his career, so it was like a tr...

Act-Age: Tatsuya Matsuki & Shu Matsui Interview

For those that do not know, act-age is getting a live action stage play on the Night of the Galactic Railroad arc! It will premiere in Japan in 2022. So without further ado, here is the interview between the author of act-age and the director/screenplay writer Shu Matsui about the wonderful manga becoming a real life play. ■About the current situation ――With the coronavirus still going on, what is the situation with the two of you now? Matsui: Right now I'm writing a screenplay, and it's not that hard, but I'm having the anxiety that I don't know how long this situation will last, and I'm worried that I might lose my job. There is a feeling that I can only be decent by writing a script, and I am totally absorbed in it. Matsuki: I'm basically working alone, so I can't use the coffee shop I usually use. However, when I write in the weekly series, I feel strange that the characters are not masking or that the opening ceremony is approachi...

Who is Time Paradox Ghostwriter's Kenji Ichima?

Who is Kenji Ichima? As far as we know, he is the writer for the new series in Weekly Shonen Jump, Time Paradox Ghostwriter which can be read on Viz or Manga Plus . Some might wonder though if he wrote something else that was published and in fact, he did! On January 6, 2019, Shonen Jump Plus published a one-shot manga titled " Shisaku Shinwa " (Prototype Myth) which can be read free on the site in Japanese only. Kenji Ichima tweeted about this saying "We posted Prototype Myth at Jump Plus! It seems to be a strange manga, but please read it! I'm sorry if it's boring!" This is the first published manga under the name "Kenji Ichima" but it isn't HIS first published manga. Going back to May 2014, Ichima-sensei's started out with another pen name "市真時系 (Jikei Ichima)" where his manga "Loser Game" won an honorable mention for the 83rd Treasure ...