Relief and anticipation for the anime adaptation --Congratulations on the decision to make an anime version of Oshi no Ko. How did you feel when you learned of the decision to make an anime? Aka Akasaka: I was happy. But since Mengo-san was in charge of drawing the pictures, I naturally thought it would be made into an anime. Mengo Yokoyari: I also thought it would be animated since it is based on Aka sensei's original work (laughs). (laughs) -- So both of you had anime adaptation in mind. Yokoyari: However, I am very happy to hear that it will be made into an anime. Akasaka: I am happy and relieved at the same time. We both have experience with anime adaptations of serialized works, so we both felt that it would be a disaster if the anime didn't get made even though we both have people who can stand on their own feet. Yokoyari: That's right. If the work of Aka Akasaka, the genius manga artist at the moment, were not made into an anime, I would feel that it was my fault. So
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