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[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

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[Erin🖤🕯️🦇 @lucystardis]

CALL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS NOW!!!! 202-224-3121 STOP BEING SILENT OR IGNORING THIS!!!!

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

im watching my friends play the horsey game with absolutely no thought for ethical science

[NemuAsahi @nemu_asahi]

So, professionnals of the manga world did a meeting and they are worried about a lot of things:

▶️Manuscript fees are too low.

Of course they are! 1 man/page, from which you take 50% off because of all the taxes. 10 hours to draw a page, which means mangaka are paid 500 yen/hour.
Big companies making millions of dollars are paying their freelancers (mangaka) 500 yen/hour. 💀

▶️The number of people wanting to become mangaka is decreasing, while the number of those drawing as a hobby (doujinshi and internet) is increasing.

Well, for sure. Because:

1) Manuscript fees are too low so it's impossible to make a living with it.

2) Working conditions are horrible (number of hours, no breaks, no work life balance etc.)

3) Doing free work with no guarantee is mandatory.

Editors ask mangaka to do big retakes without paying them more money, and can refuse projects though freelancers have worked months on it with them, under their supervision and TAKING THEIR ORDERS.

I assure you I can't do that with designers for example and I wouldn't EVEN THINK ABOUT DOING IT. It would be totally UNETHICAL to do so.

When I ask a Japanese mangaka/designer/illustrator to work with me, I do everything I can to try to create good working conditions, though I'm just a single person with limited means and not a big company with a lot of money.

Can you imagine doing with a house what publishers do with manga?

You ask the building company (designer of the house) to build you a house and then you choose to not buy it at the end because it's not to your liking. Or you say "build me 3 houses and I will choose one from them". WTF?

4) Mangaka are only paid at the end.

Mangaka have bills to pay while making manga. If an editor ask to work with a mangaka, giving him instructions to alterate the manuscript, then it's a contract.

Can you imagine paying for a house only at the end? No, you pay some of the sum at the beginning of the work, then some again when you have the structure of the house achieved. The last part is paid when you get the keys of the house.

Some veterans mangaka say it's ok to work without being paid, because then you can bring the project to another editor, but I disagree with it.

The project should be PAID AND PUBLISHED by the publisher, for one year at least. After that, if the publisher wants to take it down because it's not to its liking, then he can.

Publishing the result is a proof of work with this publisher for this freelancer. Manuscript fees are "publishing fees". So mangaka can be paid with other fees (preparation fees, 拘束 fees etc.) while working on the project.

We are talking about big companies, they CAN do it. If they are serious about creating new profitable IPs of course.
Big pharmaceutical companies pay their research teams to develop new pharmaceutical IPs (drugs, patents etc.), regardless of the result.

5) Opaque contract terms and sometimes conditions DIFFERENT from what the editor said to the author.

Impossible to discuss the terms of the contract because "it's standard". Like "if you don't sign, there are tons of other mangaka wanting to take your place, you know? *evil grin*

So don't be surprised that young Japanese prefer to become illustrators or designers instead of mangaka, or even prefer making manga as a hobby while having a stable job, with a good work life balance.

People drawing as a hobby are not paid either for their work, but at least nobody tells them what to draw, or to respect the deadline even if they have to jeopardize their health to do so.

They are worried about other things, but my post is already too long. Ranting a lot, sorry.😂

[Hannah Lock @hannahlock]

Minish Cap 🪷 🌿

#loz

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

OOOOUUGHHHHH OOT REMAKE OOUOUOUOUUUGHHHHH

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

scuse me while i switch my handle around 🫥

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

post name edit-50 pages was unavoidable 🥴 at least at my current skill level

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

i am embarking on a lil' journey - drawing my first serious original oneshot
just finished the name, 50 pages😅 i,... may have dug my own grave
maybe ill be able to cut back a few pages as i edit..... (doubt)

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

@forestkkai thank yew foresttt🫡 imma do my best!!

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

i am embarking on a lil' journey - drawing my first serious original oneshot
just finished the name, 50 pages😅 i,... may have dug my own grave
maybe ill be able to cut back a few pages as i edit..... (doubt)

[ミノベゲンキ @Ghenki_Traveler]

この絵を描くためにアマチュア無線についてめちゃくちゃ勉強した。
電波に想いを乗せて、どこかのあなたへ。ハロー、CQ CQ CQ

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

bring back "how its made" but for creative jobs and play that on loop all over the world im so serious

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

a karoo,

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

love the new updates! thanks as always for your hard work 🫡 @_muncha_

[KEYLIME @keylime00x00]

휴재는... 진짜로 쉬는 기간인게 아니라, 비축분 쌓는 기간이에요. 일단 휴재에 들어가면 RS는 들어오지 않고, 하지만 일은 평소와 똑같은 분량으로 하고 있고... 작가가 그냥 쉬거나 놀고싶어서 휴재를 하는게 아니라 걍 몸상태랑 연재분량과 속도때문에 어쩔 수가 없음...

[RedBeanPorridge 🍉🌻 Johan (Joe-han) @redbeanporri]

Everyone please do yourselves a favour and make your drawing pressure curve something like this, your wrists will thank me later!!

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

every time i think of buying p3 on steam i think of her (kotone) and i miss her so much

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

i can order mori kaoru-sensei's monthly newsletters from where i live!! that's so beautiful! living in korea can be fun sometimes!!

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

amazing how it can take years to realise something

[통조림 @canned0m]

여러분 그림 프로그램 올가미 많이 쓰지 마세요!! 올가미로 면적을 잡다 보면 손목을 많이 움직이게 되는데요, 그러면 카우보이의 영혼이 깃들어서 미국 개척 서부시대로 워프하게 됩니다 저는 그렇게 캐서디가 됐습니다 석양이 진다...

[jusan🦋VGEN OPEN @vjusan]

i hate weekly serialization 🫩