“If I told you your favorite manga should be monthly, how would that make you feel” I would be very happy LOL. More time for mangkas to breath and most likely a better end product
An amazing example I’m surprised you didn’t use is jojos bizarre adventure. Araki had weekly releases from parts 1-6 and you can definitely tell from the pacing and art at times. But around chapter 26 of part 7 (forgot the exact chapter) he switched to monthly releases and you can TELL. The pacing got way better, and the art did too. This is further proven with part 7 being considered his best work
I don't know if the pacing got better. The final fight in part 7 was like 20 chapters, reading that monthly isn't that good of a reading expetience and part 8, which is the longest part, feels pretty dragged out at times
Part 7 goes so insanely hard. I felt araki was much more creative with that part too, especially when compared to part 6, which almost felt a little stale.
It’s been killing manga for years, the publisher’s and production committee company’s won’t ever care because they’re greedy money grabbers and want to use something they don’t contribute to as instant money, what’s even worse is that Kodansha, Shueisha, & Other Publishing companies Co-Own the manga of creators, but they don’t pay for any art tools or give them any assistants, the creators have to pay for their own assistants out of pocket despite the taxing labor work schedule. Overwork in manga industry isn’t the main problem, Overwork has been a prevalent problem in Japan for years now and I can’t see any way it’s ever going to change sadly. Nobody speaks up or has the power to speak up and change the culture.
I'd like to offer my own perspective; I'm a solo writer, and love it. But I'd be hard pressed to sit there and conjure 15-20 pages out of my ass WEEKLY. Now factor in that these mangaka are not only writing out their narratives, but also drawing them under this insane time crunch. They're choosing the dialogue, paneling, coming up with the ideas for the poses and drafts for the pages themselves, the order they'll be in, the list goes on and on. The point is, these mangaka are getting put through HELL, and I fear that sooner or later it will end in catastrophe. Something needs to change.
Bro bleach is a great example, kubo has been working with anime studio to add changes to the story of the thousand year blood war arc and the changes have made the story better in my opinion.
I think Bi weekly would be the way to go minimum. As somebody who is making my own manga it takes me at least a few months to get a chapter done. Can't even imagine the schedule of an actual mangaka.
@stolentoothbrush3492 more like quater. Half payment would be semi-monthly, aka 2 chapters per month But you have to remember that mangakas get payed per page. Atleast with bi-weekly you get that little privilege for health So monthly manga usually have more pages in a chapter to get closer to the compensation.
I'm glad One Piece goes in regular breaks, only around 33 chapters a year. It's still a lot, Oda is pumping hours, but I do hope he is able to fully relax during his breaks. I think 2-week chapters should become the norm, I think it's a good balance between consistent updates and regular breaks. Even 3 weeks would be great. But I am worried many will stop reading monthly chapters if it's 15 pages a month I think even I would stop
It's honestly so damn sad man, like- I can't even imagine having to juggle factors like drafting manga panels, and making the story you've written interesting all the time; on top of that, ALL the pressure that comes with making a big series. That just makes me despise the mouthbreathers online saying they can do better when they have zero accolades to speak off. Good ass video man, I'm glad to see this topic be discussed more.
I feel like the story aspect gets forgotten about. I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I think I can tell roughly the moment when the manga catches up to the ideas that the author had before they began their indentured servitude. It just seems like every story devolves into a DBZ clone that’s power-crept to hell and back, and “battles” can take dozens and dozens of chapters. I didn’t get it when I was younger, but now it makes sense: bro is so damn busy that he doesn’t have time to come up with more plot 😂
Yeah I think in a perfect world these major manga magazines would release titles weekly but each series would be biweekly so we would have for example ShonenJump week A and week B. The way most of these magazines operate, they usually have about 18-20 ongoing manga and I think that could double if you split them up and have things like one piece and Sakamoto release this week and kagurabachi and Ichi the witch release next week. Take your 2-6 strongest manga currently and put them on opposite schedules and recruit tons of new talent to fill in the other 14 spots per week and we would have so many more new stories to read while giving each manga around 12 days to get their work done instead of 5. I think that along with the third option being like Sui Ishida and Kubo with Choujin X and Burn the Witch basically being “give it to us when it’s done” is great and could work wonders. The only thing I think preventing it is greed really though because then the companies would be paying around 40 guys for making manga instead of 20 but it should even out with them selling that many more manga too. I don’t think any type of big changes like this happen while One Piece is still ongoing though because of how big it is, I can’t see them agreeing to not get that one piece money every chance they get but I feel like other magazines could experiment with this idea. In a way I feel like this is what Jump+ is. Jump+ is much more flexible and maybe if those manga start off weekly and then become biweekly or every 3 week releases after some time. It’s a digital platform and chapters release everyday so we always have something to read and what we get to read from j+ still just barely scratches the surface. If you ever look into the Japanese jump+ catalogue there is a lot more manga there that we just don’t get. They’re doing a lot better with it now starting last year we’ve been getting a majority of jump+ manga translated and made available immediately but there are still many titles we have never seen.
Jump+ feels like a future way to ease up the schedule, you also don't have to allow time for going to print which also eats into the weekly schedule...I feel like I heard the issues go off to the printer by Saturday. Which means...not 20 pages a week, 20 finished pages in four-ish days, if the rough draft/editor meeting/corrections are done Monday. I wouldn't expect things to change any time soon though, one of the negatives sides of Japan is "that's how it's been done, so that's how we do it". If you know, you know.
Love to see more creators bringing up this topic! I feel like this kinda toxic work culture often gets ignored or just not talked about. These mangaka should get as much time as they need. Maybe dropping the manga chapters on an arc basis every couple of months would help fix this issue
@@animeuploader4992 Weekly series have 17-20 pages, that would be 80 pages a month. Monthly series have 50-60, it's not THAT different from a weekly model, it's still a lot of work
@@dantecrottogini529 No its much more easier. On a weekly, the artist has to meet with his editor and turns in the manuscripts every week. Also, imagine having to consult on an anime, answer fan mail, poster drawing, having to approve merchandise, meetings and so on. For monthly, only 1 meeting every 4 weeks. artists can spend weeks on a two pager vs days... Also weekly artists have to maintain a 3-4 chapter head start on the publication
@@dondahighhh12 You've never picked up a pencil to draw a page before, if I had to guess. Or worked with editors. Even a standard 22 page monthly issue in the US still requires a pace of about a page per day, which comes to about the same number of hours based on the lack of assistants and the often greater detail. There are absolutely still weekly meetings with editors, as well as communicating with at the very least the issue writer and colorist (unless you are taking on all jobs yourself). Add the fact that life has to keep moving around you (finances, doctors, etc) and that you are a freelance contract worker entirely responsible for representing yourself for contract negotiations and business of any sort. And hell if you can spend any more time on 2 pagers than anything else; there's still at minimum 20 more pages besides the spread to work on. Even if there is any time free, you spend it shilling for work to do so you don't end up unemployed once your current contract is up. I could keep going, but suffice to say, this weird fantasy you seem to have of artists taking time off or having it easy on a monthly schedule just doesn't happen. And that is in the American industry, where our work culture doesn't have the same terrifying standards for what qualifies as the culturally correct number of hours spent on the clock. I'm not gonna say you're delusional, but your ignorance is NOT as good as the knowledge presented in this video.
We accept American comics as a monthly release, im fine with manga going the same route. I liked it with DBS and currently with Two Blue Vortex. I think it should be the norm to be monthly.
Two of my favorite series being Jujutsu Kaisen and My hero were messed up due to external factors and it’s so painful. I miss them so much but all I can do is try to be happy and make peace with the way they ended. It sucks
Real ass video, it hurts like hell to see a anime/manga you love start to drop in quality because of these external factors. I used to be a huge My Hero fan so it hit me hard when I noticed the writing quality started to decline.
I think best way would be publishing Volumes rather than chapters. Honestly find it hard to give a shit about a story, when I get little piece of it every week or month, but Volumes pretty much contain whole arc in them making them well focused story with some sort of conclusion. Companies could hype up Volumes like movies / books. Of course my thoughts mean little here, but when I see my favorite author struggle in his own work it just makes me sad. Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, One Piece, all of this works have something declined in them due to conditions that all this chapters were made in. They're still great and stuff, but I wish they could take time with their works like they could do that before.
As a One piece reader. I really want Oda to switch weekly to Monthly. Because weekly release harming Oda's health 😢. Just imagine release ch weekly for 25+ years. And Oda's manga quality go significant down 😢. And Not only One piece. It's same goes to Chainsaw Man and Sakamoto Days. I will rather wait 1 month, 2 month, 6 month , 1... Even 2-3 years for chapters. But i want my favourite manga author's health should fine 😢......
“If I told you your favorite manga should be monthly, how would that make you feel?” I'd be perfectly fine with that. I don't have any weekly released manga that I'm currently reading through since the ending chapters for MHA and JJK released so I've mainly been on monthly manga chapters which I'm fine with. I agree with what you said on 16-20 hour work periods and considering just how multiple mangaka sick/unwell so I'm cool with it, heck I even support monthly releases since I have multiple long periods where I'm uninterested in drawing so having it as a job would definitely lower my passion for it. Not to mention that time brings out higher quality in a product, meaning greater writing and artistic quality. While it does mean less chapters which does suck in comparison for the greater quality of writing, drawing, and health for the author I'm more than happy about it.
oh absolutely. Not only is it hurting the health of the author and the art of the manga, but also the writing on both short and long term. Some of the biggest manga out there are honestly horrible in terms of writing quality. Feels to me like the author is writing on a chapter to chapter basis with very little overarching plan. They do something incredible in pumping out weekly chapters for years and years, don't get me wrong. But I do wish they had the time to plot out their whole story beforehand.
The biggest thing to me is the health of the mangaka/author when it comes to this stuff and I'm a pretty patient guy I mean I'm a HxH and Berserk fan so waiting is nothing to me lul and wish more series were monthly or bi-weekly at best for sure. Plus, it's good to see you back, and I hope the new year has been great for you.
Yeah, look at Jojo's. Araki's art improved after going from weekly to monthly. Part 7 Steel Ball Run would have been different if he was doing it weekly. My solution is to make every manga bi-weekly, and divide the mangas in 2 groups. Some mangas appear in week 1 (group A), then others in week 2 (group B), then week 3 (group A), week 4 (group B), and so on, so the magazine would still be "weekly", but the mangas will have more time to breath.
The lack of empathy in the comments is wild. The fact that these mangaka also have families! Spouses, children, pets! Would you be okay seeing your parents dying/disabling themselves, missing out on time with you, etc. and have people complaining about them not working fast enough? People who spend maybe 5 minutes to read a new chapter? "Some mangaka are just that passionate and want to do it!" Say that's true. Does that mean you need to encourage the behavior?! People like smoking and drinking too but is encouraging it not frowned upon? Because it hurts people? There are so many stories and types of entertainment in the world. You'd never run out of books to read or things to do. Let people take breaks!
I'll never forget hearing about the one interview from horokoshi who said his shoulder/arm had hurt so much, he wished it would fall off and then looking at the final act of mha and thinking that just maybe had something to do with it's dip in quality. I felt so bad for him cause like I couldn't imagine getting burned out that badly on something you love that you wished your arm was gone. The fact that he could still draw so well is astonishing tbh.
Another thing people don’t really realize is its effect on the story. Now I’m not expecting a perfect story however I wonder how many story elements could’ve been improved or completely changed in a positive way. It also can of course make a person want to quickly finish writing their story which can also make the pacing too fast for said story but I don’t blame them. I wonder how many plot hole and plot armor parts of Mangas could’ve been avoided if the writer/writers were given more time, and also how many minor or major improvements to the plot could’ve been made to said Mangas?
I would say outside of a western perspective, one thing I’ve noticed about a lot of eastern popular things is frequent releases to satisfy the masses seems to be a drive. Not just manga but also anime as well. Trying to consistently satisfy the population would in my opinion contribute to narrative and artist dip in quality.
Wouldn't say monthly but I like Schedules akin to Sui Ishida. He releases when hes ready. And depending on the bulk of chapters it can help you gauge how long a break we may have. Btw Choujin X js greatness
As an artist it needs to be mandatory that artist take a weekly break to step away and let the art breath. Gotta turn it off so when u comeback u can focus better. Gotta go outside cuz it’s ALOT of inspiration out there that u can incorporate into your story.
I'm a strong proponent of the volume/collected/graphic novel format, which would mean even longer gaps between installments. The stories could still be structured as chapters (if that's what the author wants), but it would offer a lot of creative freedom, and the readers could have more substantial stories engage with when they come out. (Note: This is also how I read manga, as well as most US comics…I "wait for the trades," as they say.)
I’ve been a huge proponent of the biweekly schedule for quite a while. Keep the same number of pages, but make it every other week. That way everyone has more time to make great series but the consumer doesn’t have to wait an entire month for a new chapter
I get what you're getting at, but there just factually is. As much as there should be? Definitely not, but it wouldn't be possible to turn something like JJK into a year round anime with consistent production quality
@@BrokenRonin The point is that JJK is the exact example of that not being the case. JJK is done by the Seshimo team from Mappa and JJK is not the only series this team is responsible for, so they do not actually get a break between seasons They worked on the first season of JJK and then immediately after that had to get to work on the movie without the time that would be necessary for a movie production. Then they got a little bit of leeway before Chainsawman, but clearly not enough since they had to start delegating staff from working on Chainsawman midway through the season, because they wouldn't otherwise make it with the 2nd season of JJK... and then they didn't make it in time anyway and had to both delay the shibuya arc and deliver unfinished episodes
On the other hand, One Piece would still be somewhere at the Punk Hazard arc, if Oda went with a 50 page monthly schedule. Maybe at the start of Dressrosa, if we are lucky enough
I think bi-weekly at the very minimum would do wonders for a lot of series to have more to plan out things and finish the chapter without compromising the health of the authors. Someone suggested WSJ could still do weekly but just split up the roster of series to allow for each author getting 12 days to finish their chapter. Another benefit for this approach is it might help ease some burdens on the editor because they probably can have more time to better give feedback for the authors that could also help improve the chapter quality. Sure, it will cost more to do so (both hiring more assistants and potentially editors as well and other staff to make this viable), but better story telling does wonders at reader retention (which is beneficial for WSJ as well). I'm happy to wait on a series I like if I know it means the author isn't being pressured by a deadline (and can tell the story they want). Manga (and anime) fans should be more patient and understanding of the work that goes into their series and do more to support the authors that make their favorite series possible.
I honestly don't think that's enough time. They still have to plan out their chapter, have meetings with their editor, and then draw out all 15-25 pages (depending on the series). I'd say once a month would be a better choice.
The thing is artists have to choose for themselves and audience need to know how to read weekly stuff. Artists want to publish in something like shonen Jump cause that sells the most & is the most wide appealing. They can choose to get published by Monthly publications too or online publication where there's more freedom but Weekly stuff just has more chance to sell more. For monthly/online stuff the work actually has to be of quality, there is no shonen jump formula to follow or the artist has to have a relative following from previous works so that people will buy whenever a new volume manga drops. Also shonen jump fandom is so daft. They make these weekly titles their entire personality when really these weekly manga are fast food. After a week of school or job, you enjoy a little bit of comic, finish it, maybe get excited with your friends, go back to school or work. It's not high art. shonen jump fans need to just accept reality of what they're reading and chill out. Enjoy the shit that gets released every Sunday and move on.
Weekly is Okay as long as there givin the Proper Time for their work. And it they want to do it Monthly is Okay, but i do have produced more than One Chapter in a Month.
Honestly Yoshihiro Togashi i really respect the most created both goated Manga series YuYu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter but the letter with his thoughts on finally done making YYH made me really uncomfortable towards how shonen jump is operated and how if you want to and feel like finishing a series because you feel exhausted and tired of making the series then boom your boss saying this series is too popular we want more like bro as much I love shonen jump and really don’t like the weekly schedule and overall something’s need to be fix in for the these type of jobs and companies
Damn. I didnt know I needed to see this video even though it practically states the obvious how could i have glossed over something this simple esp w shonen fans always throwing shit at eo calling any of the other's fave mangas mid and calling their respective authors incompetent. When I try to think of objective masterpieces in the manga medium whose quality stay consistent from beginning to date, I realized they all DONT follow breakneck weekly schedules. Urusawa's works, Miura, Isayama's, Togashi, Araki (after he went monthly) to name a few... Because of internal and external pressures, unforgiving working schedules, burnout (and any creative worker is THE MOST prone to burnout) all lead to not only declines in art quality but inevitably the worsening of story writing and narrative. The key takeaway from this video is the brutal reality that your favorite WSJ or Weekly Shonen sunday manga is DOOMED TO BE MID whether you like it or not bc authors are working at only 60-70% of their actual potential, efficiency and quality is compromised to bend to the demands of the publisher and the general public. Thats why initial arcs most often would be regarded as peak or well written but eventually you will see that the later arcs almost always suffer from declines in story writing and/or art but this is NOT necessarily the author's fault. So yeah the next time someone says my fave weekly shonen is mid, maybe I wouldn't have to get so triggered because perhaps theyre not so wrong. Mid isnt even bad or trash, its just average. And well, Lower expectations = more enjoyment anyway
Tbh, I'd like a biweekly or monthly approach to anime too I mean, some people would protest, because 'my special anime day of the week' but, I'd rather have a great product later than a mid product now. And most issue with anime (like blue lock or OPM s2) were because of a lack of time. So it would help in all departments, even reducing crunch hours for animators (JJK s2) If anime was biweekly, I'd say either animators would get actual liveable hours... or every bones anime would look like opm s1 Let's be honest though... anime studios would just use this to push out 2 animes at the same time, not fixing the issue.
I'll die on the hill of wishing Tite Kubo switched to a monthly format during the TYBW arc. A lot was left on the chopping block. It would have given him way more time to flesh out his plans for it. The lead up to the final chapter would have been a lot better.
Even just a schedule like Odas 3 weeks on 1 week off would help everyone. Obviously, he's been around longer, so he gets a better deal helps hes making the cash cow One Piece. Another option is they could lower the page count for chapters some people might not like it but it could help.
Definitely agree and I have been saying it for years fantasy books for example something like a song of ice and fire (game of thrones books) George said he write then re write again and again until it’s done stories needs time also jojo art and pacing got better when he switched to monthly
In my opinion, every mangaka should publish their chapter every 2 weeks. 24 or 25 chapters early. They should let mangaka who got their work axed, should have a second chance. 2 weeks for major series in SHONEN jump ( more than 150 chapters) 1 week for small shonen jump manga( less than 150 chapters) If you disagree with me just comment on this
10:06 as far as i know this isn’t always the case. there was an animator at clover works who made their debut in wonder egg, then worked on sailor uniform, then my dress up darling, then bocchi the rock as the character designer back to back. my source for this is manko man. a fellow creator who focuses a lot on the anime industry and some of these shows may be wrong. however the only time when you get a “break” is if you’re a freelancer which most of the “top” animators are. but considering that animators get such poor pay i can’t imagine that they take breaks. those breaks may end up coming to them if they’re given a generous deadline for their work and they can relax a little but this also most likely isn’t the case.
Im a big fan of Mashle and honestly i feel like it could have gone in forever. But it didnt and it went out with a bang and i loved the ending. I also think Demon Slayer ending "early", compared to the other series that sold a lot, is a good influence for not forcing series to go on too long past the author and the stories breaking points. I think there will always be a place in society for weekly storytelling but i also agree with you that we need to take peoples health into account wayyyyy mote than we do and change what that weekly storytelling looks like cause ya you are right its so unhealthy the way it is.
This is why I'll always have respect for mangaka of SJ. Even for series I don't personally care for like Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan, I still have a massive amount of respect for those two because of their dedication and hard work. That being said, SJ REALLY needs to rethink their business practices, because it's killing their talent. What if instead MHA and Black Clover were given a full month to develop their chapters, meanwhile there's a rotation of different Jump chapters to take their place for the next few weeks, maybe of smaller series that deserve more love. As an example, let's say MHA releases a chapter, a week later a new chapter from a different manga is published in its place, then that one rotates out a week later for something different as well, and so on until the next month when Hori has given his work the finishing touches it needs to be great. And this doesn't have to pertain to just the popular series going on, this could work for every manga, making it so all mangaka have a healthy work schedule. God knows Jump publishes way too many manga already, so why not put them to good use and give them all their time to shine each month?
I have already known about that before. This is the reason why I would never release manga on a weekly basis if I was a manga author who lives in Japan.
the more realistic solution would be batching like HxH (not to the same degree). Give mangaka's breaks between arcs / volumes where they just work on the story and such without needing to release a chapter.
Osamu Nishi has been putting out chapters for Welcome to Demon School Iruma Kun weekly since 2017 and it has been the most consistent shonen manga, storytelling-wise, I’ve read in years. Shes even started to write for Ichi the Witch, another weekly title.
1:56 this example is not valid. There is a big difference between getting pressed by your boss and do what you love. If only i could make games and draw every hour of the the day I would do it. A really lazy mindset
I feel there is also another aspect besides just the weekly release but the business side, for instance, popularity polls exist to show Jump what merch can get made which on the surface makes sense but also it's used by editors and Jump to encourage the mangaka to keep those characters alive to milk the merch it's something that does really tank a series when the steaks just aren't there, weekly release I do think is part of it because in general as well you are expected to release and keep viewers weekly and if they start to dip off you get axed even if you are a larger series. I think the manga industry is very ugly for a medium that has a lot of really great stories
I think another thing with the weekly schedule is that its a thing very specific to the shonen demographic, not that other demographics dont have some (Young Jumo is a weekly seinen magazine) but from what ive seen most seinen/shojo/josei magazines are monthly or biweekly. Heck for some magazines like Hana to Yume, they publish twice a month and most series are only present for one issue, which is good for the authors health and means they have more room for series so they arent as compeitive as something like Jump. A biweekly/monthly schedule would be fantastic, since that would allow the artists to rest more and plan out stories better, we also gotta remember they do a ton of work outside of serialization too (touch ups/bonuses for volume releases, overseeing adaptations like anime/games/stage plays, magazine covers and promotional art etc...) so that added time would allow them to better balance all of that without sacrificing ones quality for the other. Plus monthly manga tend to have longer chapters so itd be close to the same amount of content wed from a full month of weekly releases anyway. Digital magazines i feel are a little better since they have more flexible schedules, but they still tend to push for weekly so theres work to be done there too. Great video!
Re: the improved volume art - rough draft vs finished draft - they are running out of time and using rough draft pages to make the deadline of the magazine. I often see this called a drop in quality, which it is, but not in the way implied. The work wasn't done until the volume, really sad. I agree on the idea of at least biweekly WITHOUT a page increase as that would defeat the purpose. IF focused, a western psycho-hoes-beast like me can manage 20 pages in two weeks, they would be able to actually LIVE in that time, not die early and not have to publish the rough draft.
I agree with this video wholeheartedly, I do think it is important however to note that these are their DREAMS. Unlike the slaves at MAPPA being held at gun point (joking). I just imagine it’s easier for Oda to do this because he’s wanted to draw manga since he was a child. If I could be a millionaire and be loved by the entire world I think I’d be fine sleeping less, you forfeit freedom for fame that’s just the way it’s always been. I do think it would be nice to see other magazines put an end to jumps monopolization though. In the same way kick showed up and started taking streamers from twitch, someone could approach Fujimoto for CSM Pt.3 to be published in their magazine for: more creative control, no deadlines, and a larger share of profit from volume sales. Competition is the only way to improve conditions. Jump won’t just change unless they are forced to adapt to the times.
And they could easily put it up so for example blue lock comes one week, dandadan and kagurabachi the next, week after that is one piece or something like that yk?
I wanted to say that I got to somewhat experience what it’s like drawing a manga chapter and it further increased my respect for mangakas. Basically I had decided to redraw the entirety of jujutsu kaisen chapter 235 on traditional and It was the most mentally damaging thing that ever happened to me. Looking back on it, I have no clue why I chose to draw the chapter on poster boards( 22 x 28 inches if you’re wondering) but doing so made it 100 times harder to complete. Getting into how long I would draw for, I would get off at school roughly at 3:30 but would have to leave for work at 4:30, so I would cram in a much time as possible to draw. When I got home around 8 pm, I’d go straight to drawing, sometimes skipping dinner and would go to bed at 2 or 3am. On some days I woke up at 2 am to just be up drawing until 6 am which was the time I needed to get up for school. I continued to stay up for long periods even while I was out of town. I also forgot to mention that on some days, I wouldn’t even leave school until 5 pm because of driver’s education. So essentially, anytime I was home, I’d spend that time drawing. The whole time I was redrawing that chapter, I wondered how the hell does Gege and his editors manage to create high quality chapters on a nearly weekly basis. It also made me realize people don’t praise editors enough for their hard work. When I was nearly finished with all the pages I had a terrible cramp in my hand, my diet had been the worst it ever was and not to mention my sleep deprivation was so bad that I could not physically blink for hours at a time. When I had finally completed the chapter redraw, I wasn’t proud of myself really, just glad it was over. Even after completing something that crazy, I can In no way compare to any mangaka. I highly doubt you read all of this but if you’re interested in looking at the chapter redraw, you can find it at ultra_does_art on instagram. (And I am not asking for any followers or likes)
I don't think you can really stop the weekly schedule unless you just stop the weekly magazine and just release Volumes which will probably never happen as magazines are big deal in Japan
The sad things is that's brutal schedule is choice they must choose to be popular mangaka For information they have many publishing schedule form weekly to yearly, the most common one is monthly And with how mature they industry are now, it's more common to found light schedule to release a chapter (ex : 12 page/month) But with many book released every month from dozens of magazine and website it's really really much harder to compete keeping your title in people awareness That's why as ordinary mangaka your only choice to become big is try to publish in weekly magazine with the most audience or try your luck in more loose schedule hoping to strike a lightning somehow The industry is harsh, i hope they will stay healthy and hard works pay off
Monthly would be SOOOOO much better, more time = time for quality, i am an anime fan but i dont just watch any slop that is on the top 10 seasonal, most animes nowadays SUCK, around 95% are so soulless remixes of remixes full of cliches and i think part of it is because they are the only ones possible to pump out like that
If it’s a superior product with a few more pages I don’t mind. I think to hold people over they should first release 3 chapters at the start of the manga.
It'd feel like comics for me. I don't buy a lot of comics but its nice to know that the ones I do come out with one issue a month. I buy it, read it then wait for the enxt
16-20 hour work days should be the kind of shit restricted to dystopian novels, not the standard for an entire industry!
“If I told you your favorite manga should be monthly, how would that make you feel”
I would be very happy LOL. More time for mangkas to breath and most likely a better end product
My favourite manga isn't even monthly, it's yearly at best 😔🙏
@Cobaltzwhat is the manga?
Favorite is Vinland Saga so I'm already there lol
@Cobaltz … Berserk?… Hunter X Hunter?
@Cobaltz made in abyss?
An amazing example I’m surprised you didn’t use is jojos bizarre adventure. Araki had weekly releases from parts 1-6 and you can definitely tell from the pacing and art at times. But around chapter 26 of part 7 (forgot the exact chapter) he switched to monthly releases and you can TELL. The pacing got way better, and the art did too. This is further proven with part 7 being considered his best work
If I was more familiar with Jojos as a reader it would've been a great reference to use!
@@BrokenRonin Well you know what to do now
I don't know if the pacing got better. The final fight in part 7 was like 20 chapters, reading that monthly isn't that good of a reading expetience and part 8, which is the longest part, feels pretty dragged out at times
Part 7 is considered the best in the USA maybe but as far as I can tell in Japan the top parts are wildly different.
Part 7 goes so insanely hard. I felt araki was much more creative with that part too, especially when compared to part 6, which almost felt a little stale.
It’s been killing manga for years, the publisher’s and production committee company’s won’t ever care because they’re greedy money grabbers and want to use something they don’t contribute to as instant money, what’s even worse is that Kodansha, Shueisha, & Other Publishing companies Co-Own the manga of creators, but they don’t pay for any art tools or give them any assistants, the creators have to pay for their own assistants out of pocket despite the taxing labor work schedule. Overwork in manga industry isn’t the main problem, Overwork has been a prevalent problem in Japan for years now and I can’t see any way it’s ever going to change sadly. Nobody speaks up or has the power to speak up and change the culture.
I'd like to offer my own perspective; I'm a solo writer, and love it. But I'd be hard pressed to sit there and conjure 15-20 pages out of my ass WEEKLY.
Now factor in that these mangaka are not only writing out their narratives, but also drawing them under this insane time crunch. They're choosing the dialogue, paneling, coming up with the ideas for the poses and drafts for the pages themselves, the order they'll be in, the list goes on and on. The point is, these mangaka are getting put through HELL, and I fear that sooner or later it will end in catastrophe. Something needs to change.
It already has. Miura is dead, Toriyama too. More will follow if this trend continue.
still wild that we got a 6 page jjk chapter cause gege was so sick but still needed to get something out
Or half chapter bluelock
didn't we got like four of those? Seriously it was insane
Bro bleach is a great example, kubo has been working with anime studio to add changes to the story of the thousand year blood war arc and the changes have made the story better in my opinion.
Same with One Piece. People think the anime adds insane amounts of filler but Oda only writes the most important stuff because of time
@@AZaytun_MSM One piece's anime adds stuff because they can't adapt much in one episode otherwise they'd catch up to the manga...
I think Bi weekly would be the way to go minimum. As somebody who is making my own manga it takes me at least a few months to get a chapter done. Can't even imagine the schedule of an actual mangaka.
Thank god monthly magazines are a thing, most healthiest schedule
Bi weekly means half the content which would mean half the pay. For a lot of the smaller mangaka, I don't think that would be viable.
@stolentoothbrush3492 well bi-weekly is just 1 off week. So payment difference between weekly isn't much.
@@bloodnessx Payment difference is half? How is that not much?
@stolentoothbrush3492 more like quater. Half payment would be semi-monthly, aka 2 chapters per month
But you have to remember that mangakas get payed per page. Atleast with bi-weekly you get that little privilege for health
So monthly manga usually have more pages in a chapter to get closer to the compensation.
I'm glad One Piece goes in regular breaks, only around 33 chapters a year. It's still a lot, Oda is pumping hours, but I do hope he is able to fully relax during his breaks.
I think 2-week chapters should become the norm, I think it's a good balance between consistent updates and regular breaks. Even 3 weeks would be great.
But I am worried many will stop reading monthly chapters if it's 15 pages a month
I think even I would stop
Thank you for this video.
“Fans” stay buggin out.
Mangaka are human beings. Treat em as such.
It's honestly so damn sad man, like- I can't even imagine having to juggle factors like drafting manga panels, and making the story you've written interesting all the time; on top of that, ALL the pressure that comes with making a big series.
That just makes me despise the mouthbreathers online saying they can do better when they have zero accolades to speak off. Good ass video man, I'm glad to see this topic be discussed more.
I feel like the story aspect gets forgotten about. I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I think I can tell roughly the moment when the manga catches up to the ideas that the author had before they began their indentured servitude.
It just seems like every story devolves into a DBZ clone that’s power-crept to hell and back, and “battles” can take dozens and dozens of chapters.
I didn’t get it when I was younger, but now it makes sense: bro is so damn busy that he doesn’t have time to come up with more plot 😂
Yeah I think in a perfect world these major manga magazines would release titles weekly but each series would be biweekly so we would have for example ShonenJump week A and week B. The way most of these magazines operate, they usually have about 18-20 ongoing manga and I think that could double if you split them up and have things like one piece and Sakamoto release this week and kagurabachi and Ichi the witch release next week. Take your 2-6 strongest manga currently and put them on opposite schedules and recruit tons of new talent to fill in the other 14 spots per week and we would have so many more new stories to read while giving each manga around 12 days to get their work done instead of 5. I think that along with the third option being like Sui Ishida and Kubo with Choujin X and Burn the Witch basically being “give it to us when it’s done” is great and could work wonders.
The only thing I think preventing it is greed really though because then the companies would be paying around 40 guys for making manga instead of 20 but it should even out with them selling that many more manga too.
I don’t think any type of big changes like this happen while One Piece is still ongoing though because of how big it is, I can’t see them agreeing to not get that one piece money every chance they get but I feel like other magazines could experiment with this idea. In a way I feel like this is what Jump+ is.
Jump+ is much more flexible and maybe if those manga start off weekly and then become biweekly or every 3 week releases after some time. It’s a digital platform and chapters release everyday so we always have something to read and what we get to read from j+ still just barely scratches the surface. If you ever look into the Japanese jump+ catalogue there is a lot more manga there that we just don’t get. They’re doing a lot better with it now starting last year we’ve been getting a majority of jump+ manga translated and made available immediately but there are still many titles we have never seen.
@@yatoplayz Shonen jump I wonder if it will see a new generation shonen in the future
@@Beneadacokksukatdow what do you mean?
Jump+ feels like a future way to ease up the schedule, you also don't have to allow time for going to print which also eats into the weekly schedule...I feel like I heard the issues go off to the printer by Saturday. Which means...not 20 pages a week, 20 finished pages in four-ish days, if the rough draft/editor meeting/corrections are done Monday.
I wouldn't expect things to change any time soon though, one of the negatives sides of Japan is "that's how it's been done, so that's how we do it". If you know, you know.
One piece already bi weekly tbh. wuth all of oda breaks
manga assistants are so underrated in the manga comunity ):
Love to see more creators bringing up this topic! I feel like this kinda toxic work culture often gets ignored or just not talked about. These mangaka should get as much time as they need.
Maybe dropping the manga chapters on an arc basis every couple of months would help fix this issue
A lot of mangas out there are monthly releases, it’s just the popular shounen ones that are on a tight weekly schedule.
Monthly release with 50 plus pages is almost the same amount of work as a weekly series
@dantecrottogini529 no it's spread out so authors can rest
@@animeuploader4992 Weekly series have 17-20 pages, that would be 80 pages a month. Monthly series have 50-60, it's not THAT different from a weekly model, it's still a lot of work
@@dantecrottogini529 No its much more easier.
On a weekly, the artist has to meet with his editor and turns in the manuscripts every week.
Also, imagine having to consult on an anime, answer fan mail, poster drawing, having to approve merchandise, meetings and so on.
For monthly, only 1 meeting every 4 weeks. artists can spend weeks on a two pager vs days...
Also weekly artists have to maintain a 3-4 chapter head start on the publication
@@dondahighhh12 You've never picked up a pencil to draw a page before, if I had to guess. Or worked with editors. Even a standard 22 page monthly issue in the US still requires a pace of about a page per day, which comes to about the same number of hours based on the lack of assistants and the often greater detail. There are absolutely still weekly meetings with editors, as well as communicating with at the very least the issue writer and colorist (unless you are taking on all jobs yourself). Add the fact that life has to keep moving around you (finances, doctors, etc) and that you are a freelance contract worker entirely responsible for representing yourself for contract negotiations and business of any sort. And hell if you can spend any more time on 2 pagers than anything else; there's still at minimum 20 more pages besides the spread to work on. Even if there is any time free, you spend it shilling for work to do so you don't end up unemployed once your current contract is up. I could keep going, but suffice to say, this weird fantasy you seem to have of artists taking time off or having it easy on a monthly schedule just doesn't happen. And that is in the American industry, where our work culture doesn't have the same terrifying standards for what qualifies as the culturally correct number of hours spent on the clock. I'm not gonna say you're delusional, but your ignorance is NOT as good as the knowledge presented in this video.
One piece and CSM would be so much better monthly imo
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Especially those two
We accept American comics as a monthly release, im fine with manga going the same route. I liked it with DBS and currently with Two Blue Vortex.
I think it should be the norm to be monthly.
Japanese companies listening to westerners? Their minority market. Good luck.
Starting off the year strong i see.
@@Nyota7766 aye I been gone for a minute I had to make sure the return was worth it
@BrokenRonin well I say it was worth the wait.
0:12 No way Luffy is pushing bro out of the way
@@rubub8455 Oda has 10 to 15 team members for sure.
Two of my favorite series being Jujutsu Kaisen and My hero were messed up due to external factors and it’s so painful. I miss them so much but all I can do is try to be happy and make peace with the way they ended. It sucks
copium. they were always badly written
you’re entitled to your own opinion, but they weren’t
@@tee-p6fyour have ur own opinion, but they Infact weren’t
@tee-p6f
Both really good series. You're either 12 or an older dude who hates everything.
One of the most heartbreaking things you can experience is seeing how the mangaka visibly wants to end his story because he's burnt out
Real ass video, it hurts like hell to see a anime/manga you love start to drop in quality because of these external factors. I used to be a huge My Hero fan so it hit me hard when I noticed the writing quality started to decline.
I think best way would be publishing Volumes rather than chapters. Honestly find it hard to give a shit about a story, when I get little piece of it every week or month, but Volumes pretty much contain whole arc in them making them well focused story with some sort of conclusion. Companies could hype up Volumes like movies / books.
Of course my thoughts mean little here, but when I see my favorite author struggle in his own work it just makes me sad. Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, One Piece, all of this works have something declined in them due to conditions that all this chapters were made in. They're still great and stuff, but I wish they could take time with their works like they could do that before.
As a One piece reader. I really want Oda to switch weekly to Monthly. Because weekly release harming Oda's health 😢. Just imagine release ch weekly for 25+ years. And Oda's manga quality go significant down 😢.
And Not only One piece. It's same goes to Chainsaw Man and Sakamoto Days. I will rather wait 1 month, 2 month, 6 month , 1... Even 2-3 years for chapters. But i want my favourite manga author's health should fine 😢......
i could be wrong but one of his biggest fears is that he will never complete one piece, and its the reason he keeps trying to push it.
@luckisluck
Can't say this, because we are already in the last Saga. But you have a point
yeah it alredy bi weekly over the course of the year. so yeah
I think only Japan can change it. Not overseas people. Which is sad
notice how jjba art stayed goated and in fact got better?
Araki is such a different breed
“If I told you your favorite manga should be monthly, how would that make you feel?”
I'd be perfectly fine with that. I don't have any weekly released manga that I'm currently reading through since the ending chapters for MHA and JJK released so I've mainly been on monthly manga chapters which I'm fine with. I agree with what you said on 16-20 hour work periods and considering just how multiple mangaka sick/unwell so I'm cool with it, heck I even support monthly releases since I have multiple long periods where I'm uninterested in drawing so having it as a job would definitely lower my passion for it.
Not to mention that time brings out higher quality in a product, meaning greater writing and artistic quality. While it does mean less chapters which does suck in comparison for the greater quality of writing, drawing, and health for the author I'm more than happy about it.
Yes, I agree with this video. Seriously I always pray Mangakas live healthy 🙏
Love this video definitely would be best for less frequent releases. Just for the consideration and health of these mangakas.
First upload of the year
oh absolutely. Not only is it hurting the health of the author and the art of the manga, but also the writing on both short and long term. Some of the biggest manga out there are honestly horrible in terms of writing quality. Feels to me like the author is writing on a chapter to chapter basis with very little overarching plan.
They do something incredible in pumping out weekly chapters for years and years, don't get me wrong.
But I do wish they had the time to plot out their whole story beforehand.
Horikoshi after having to draw a Todoroki related chapter: ☠️
The biggest thing to me is the health of the mangaka/author when it comes to this stuff and I'm a pretty patient guy I mean I'm a HxH and Berserk fan so waiting is nothing to me lul and wish more series were monthly or bi-weekly at best for sure. Plus, it's good to see you back, and I hope the new year has been great for you.
Yeah, look at Jojo's. Araki's art improved after going from weekly to monthly. Part 7 Steel Ball Run would have been different if he was doing it weekly.
My solution is to make every manga bi-weekly, and divide the mangas in 2 groups. Some mangas appear in week 1 (group A), then others in week 2 (group B), then week 3 (group A), week 4 (group B), and so on, so the magazine would still be "weekly", but the mangas will have more time to breath.
Maybe we would get a Berserk of our generation if it was that way :P
The lack of empathy in the comments is wild. The fact that these mangaka also have families! Spouses, children, pets! Would you be okay seeing your parents dying/disabling themselves, missing out on time with you, etc. and have people complaining about them not working fast enough? People who spend maybe 5 minutes to read a new chapter?
"Some mangaka are just that passionate and want to do it!" Say that's true. Does that mean you need to encourage the behavior?! People like smoking and drinking too but is encouraging it not frowned upon? Because it hurts people?
There are so many stories and types of entertainment in the world. You'd never run out of books to read or things to do. Let people take breaks!
I'll never forget hearing about the one interview from horokoshi who said his shoulder/arm had hurt so much, he wished it would fall off and then looking at the final act of mha and thinking that just maybe had something to do with it's dip in quality. I felt so bad for him cause like I couldn't imagine getting burned out that badly on something you love that you wished your arm was gone. The fact that he could still draw so well is astonishing tbh.
He also randomly got bleeding from his ear... biweekly is becoming more of a thing, and that's for the best
People still send death threats
And the final arc still came out good. His art for the final was mad crazy. Dude was dedicated. Can't wait to see what Horikoshi does next
Literally had to shorten page counts to 13-15 pages mostly in the last 2 years of the manga
Also the mental health issues that come from that amount of pain and long hours, he had to be in hell
Another thing people don’t really realize is its effect on the story. Now I’m not expecting a perfect story however I wonder how many story elements could’ve been improved or completely changed in a positive way. It also can of course make a person want to quickly finish writing their story which can also make the pacing too fast for said story but I don’t blame them. I wonder how many plot hole and plot armor parts of Mangas could’ve been avoided if the writer/writers were given more time, and also how many minor or major improvements to the plot could’ve been made to said Mangas?
It truly is sad what mangaka go through constantly.
I would say outside of a western perspective, one thing I’ve noticed about a lot of eastern popular things is frequent releases to satisfy the masses seems to be a drive. Not just manga but also anime as well. Trying to consistently satisfy the population would in my opinion contribute to narrative and artist dip in quality.
If not monthly then atleast biweekly ,but weekly doesn't seem good
This is what I like about webcomics the authors are able to do their thing god of high school showed this
You are preaching big time!! Thanks for the great video.😊
Its the work culture Japan worked for over the decades.....
Okay...
Aye thanks for picking me up that shovel bro
Aye don't mention it
Wouldn't say monthly but I like Schedules akin to Sui Ishida. He releases when hes ready. And depending on the bulk of chapters it can help you gauge how long a break we may have.
Btw Choujin X js greatness
As an artist it needs to be mandatory that artist take a weekly break to step away and let the art breath. Gotta turn it off so when u comeback u can focus better. Gotta go outside cuz it’s ALOT of inspiration out there that u can incorporate into your story.
I'm a strong proponent of the volume/collected/graphic novel format, which would mean even longer gaps between installments. The stories could still be structured as chapters (if that's what the author wants), but it would offer a lot of creative freedom, and the readers could have more substantial stories engage with when they come out.
(Note: This is also how I read manga, as well as most US comics…I "wait for the trades," as they say.)
I’ve been a huge proponent of the biweekly schedule for quite a while. Keep the same number of pages, but make it every other week. That way everyone has more time to make great series but the consumer doesn’t have to wait an entire month for a new chapter
Thank u dude, thank u. Been saying this since I grasped what they were going through, no one should be dealing with the shit they gotta
We appreciate works more when we have a chance of abstanence from it all. Which strengthens the impact pf euphpria when it arrives
Monthly release should be the standard with some minor variance if necessary
"at least with animation there is a break between production on one product and production on the next"
Oh, you sweet summer child
I get what you're getting at, but there just factually is. As much as there should be? Definitely not, but it wouldn't be possible to turn something like JJK into a year round anime with consistent production quality
I mean look at what happened to s2, they had to rush it out and mappa was actively working on other adaptations at the time.
@@BrokenRonin The point is that JJK is the exact example of that not being the case. JJK is done by the Seshimo team from Mappa and JJK is not the only series this team is responsible for, so they do not actually get a break between seasons
They worked on the first season of JJK and then immediately after that had to get to work on the movie without the time that would be necessary for a movie production. Then they got a little bit of leeway before Chainsawman, but clearly not enough since they had to start delegating staff from working on Chainsawman midway through the season, because they wouldn't otherwise make it with the 2nd season of JJK... and then they didn't make it in time anyway and had to both delay the shibuya arc and deliver unfinished episodes
On the other hand, One Piece would still be somewhere at the Punk Hazard arc, if Oda went with a 50 page monthly schedule. Maybe at the start of Dressrosa, if we are lucky enough
I think bi-weekly at the very minimum would do wonders for a lot of series to have more to plan out things and finish the chapter without compromising the health of the authors. Someone suggested WSJ could still do weekly but just split up the roster of series to allow for each author getting 12 days to finish their chapter. Another benefit for this approach is it might help ease some burdens on the editor because they probably can have more time to better give feedback for the authors that could also help improve the chapter quality.
Sure, it will cost more to do so (both hiring more assistants and potentially editors as well and other staff to make this viable), but better story telling does wonders at reader retention (which is beneficial for WSJ as well).
I'm happy to wait on a series I like if I know it means the author isn't being pressured by a deadline (and can tell the story they want). Manga (and anime) fans should be more patient and understanding of the work that goes into their series and do more to support the authors that make their favorite series possible.
I honestly don't think that's enough time. They still have to plan out their chapter, have meetings with their editor, and then draw out all 15-25 pages (depending on the series). I'd say once a month would be a better choice.
@@BramTheDemon 'not enough time' well its currently weekly and they get it done... so yes it is tf
@ It gets done because they're pushing themselves over their limits and living unhealthy lifestyles. It needs to change.
@ yeah... double the time is a change lol. small steps
Imo missed opportunity in the thumbnail to give the frog also x for eyes
The thing is artists have to choose for themselves and audience need to know how to read weekly stuff.
Artists want to publish in something like shonen Jump cause that sells the most & is the most wide appealing. They can choose to get published by Monthly publications too or online publication where there's more freedom but Weekly stuff just has more chance to sell more. For monthly/online stuff the work actually has to be of quality, there is no shonen jump formula to follow or the artist has to have a relative following from previous works so that people will buy whenever a new volume manga drops.
Also shonen jump fandom is so daft. They make these weekly titles their entire personality when really these weekly manga are fast food. After a week of school or job, you enjoy a little bit of comic, finish it, maybe get excited with your friends, go back to school or work. It's not high art. shonen jump fans need to just accept reality of what they're reading and chill out. Enjoy the shit that gets released every Sunday and move on.
OMG YOU HAVENT UPLOADED SINCE LAST YEAR!!
bro you made two of the exact same comment
@ thought i sent it to the community tab my bad
@@zineprixmenu4373 😕
My goat is back
Yeah capitalism suck sometimes
The Luigi cameo had me cackling. I’m the type that does get called in for roughly 50-60 hr work weeks but if my boss said 80? Pshhhhhhhh. Nah.
Weekly is Okay as long as there givin the Proper Time for their work. And it they want to do it Monthly is Okay, but i do have produced more than One Chapter in a Month.
What about 1 ch but 30-50 pages.
Honestly Yoshihiro Togashi i really respect the most created both goated Manga series YuYu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter but the letter with his thoughts on finally done making YYH made me really uncomfortable towards how shonen jump is operated and how if you want to and feel like finishing a series because you feel exhausted and tired of making the series then boom your boss saying this series is too popular we want more like bro as much I love shonen jump and really don’t like the weekly schedule and overall something’s need to be fix in for the these type of jobs and companies
Damn. I didnt know I needed to see this video even though it practically states the obvious how could i have glossed over something this simple esp w shonen fans always throwing shit at eo calling any of the other's fave mangas mid and calling their respective authors incompetent.
When I try to think of objective masterpieces in the manga medium whose quality stay consistent from beginning to date, I realized they all DONT follow breakneck weekly schedules. Urusawa's works, Miura, Isayama's, Togashi, Araki (after he went monthly) to name a few... Because of internal and external pressures, unforgiving working schedules, burnout (and any creative worker is THE MOST prone to burnout) all lead to not only declines in art quality but inevitably the worsening of story writing and narrative.
The key takeaway from this video is the brutal reality that your favorite WSJ or Weekly Shonen sunday manga is DOOMED TO BE MID whether you like it or not bc authors are working at only 60-70% of their actual potential, efficiency and quality is compromised to bend to the demands of the publisher and the general public. Thats why initial arcs most often would be regarded as peak or well written but eventually you will see that the later arcs almost always suffer from declines in story writing and/or art but this is NOT necessarily the author's fault.
So yeah the next time someone says my fave weekly shonen is mid, maybe I wouldn't have to get so triggered because perhaps theyre not so wrong. Mid isnt even bad or trash, its just average. And well, Lower expectations = more enjoyment anyway
6:21 I laughed out loudly
Great job my man 😂❤
Tbh, I'd like a biweekly or monthly approach to anime too
I mean, some people would protest, because 'my special anime day of the week' but, I'd rather have a great product later than a mid product now.
And most issue with anime (like blue lock or OPM s2) were because of a lack of time. So it would help in all departments, even reducing crunch hours for animators (JJK s2)
If anime was biweekly, I'd say either animators would get actual liveable hours... or every bones anime would look like opm s1
Let's be honest though... anime studios would just use this to push out 2 animes at the same time, not fixing the issue.
ideally animes should be finished long before it airs (like frieren season 1) so the weekly crunch isnt needed
100% agree, should be bi-monthly AT MOST
I'll die on the hill of wishing Tite Kubo switched to a monthly format during the TYBW arc. A lot was left on the chopping block. It would have given him way more time to flesh out his plans for it. The lead up to the final chapter would have been a lot better.
After getting hooked on hxh I say I would be fine, but my exceptions would be a lot higher
THAT LUIGI MANGIONE IMAGE FADING IN IS CRAZY DIABOLICAL LMFAO
Even just a schedule like Odas 3 weeks on 1 week off would help everyone. Obviously, he's been around longer, so he gets a better deal helps hes making the cash cow One Piece.
Another option is they could lower the page count for chapters some people might not like it but it could help.
Definitely agree and I have been saying it for years fantasy books for example something like a song of ice and fire (game of thrones books) George said he write then re write again and again until it’s done stories needs time also jojo art and pacing got better when he switched to monthly
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@@danesimonson1672 preciate you brother
In my opinion, every mangaka should publish their chapter every 2 weeks. 24 or 25 chapters early. They should let mangaka who got their work axed, should have a second chance.
2 weeks for major series in SHONEN jump ( more than 150 chapters)
1 week for small shonen jump manga( less than 150 chapters)
If you disagree with me just comment on this
Obviously you don't know how it's work the most gaijin shit i ever heard 😂
You soft ass people
Hmm...nah but I like your 2 weeks release ch theory
You do realize if authors wanted to do that, they would just go to that magazine in the first place.
Chainsaw Man part 2 is basically every 2 weeks now... on average. he tends to drop randomly after leaving WSJ
@@dondahighhh12 used to be every 2 week
10:06 as far as i know this isn’t always the case. there was an animator at clover works who made their debut in wonder egg, then worked on sailor uniform, then my dress up darling, then bocchi the rock as the character designer back to back. my source for this is manko man. a fellow creator who focuses a lot on the anime industry and some of these shows may be wrong. however the only time when you get a “break” is if you’re a freelancer which most of the “top” animators are. but considering that animators get such poor pay i can’t imagine that they take breaks. those breaks may end up coming to them if they’re given a generous deadline for their work and they can relax a little but this also most likely isn’t the case.
Im a big fan of Mashle and honestly i feel like it could have gone in forever. But it didnt and it went out with a bang and i loved the ending. I also think Demon Slayer ending "early", compared to the other series that sold a lot, is a good influence for not forcing series to go on too long past the author and the stories breaking points. I think there will always be a place in society for weekly storytelling but i also agree with you that we need to take peoples health into account wayyyyy mote than we do and change what that weekly storytelling looks like cause ya you are right its so unhealthy the way it is.
I can only imagine what YuYu could have ended up if togashi was allowed more time.
Personally as fan of boruto i am cool waiting monthly for my manga chapters
This is why I'll always have respect for mangaka of SJ. Even for series I don't personally care for like Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan, I still have a massive amount of respect for those two because of their dedication and hard work. That being said, SJ REALLY needs to rethink their business practices, because it's killing their talent. What if instead MHA and Black Clover were given a full month to develop their chapters, meanwhile there's a rotation of different Jump chapters to take their place for the next few weeks, maybe of smaller series that deserve more love. As an example, let's say MHA releases a chapter, a week later a new chapter from a different manga is published in its place, then that one rotates out a week later for something different as well, and so on until the next month when Hori has given his work the finishing touches it needs to be great. And this doesn't have to pertain to just the popular series going on, this could work for every manga, making it so all mangaka have a healthy work schedule. God knows Jump publishes way too many manga already, so why not put them to good use and give them all their time to shine each month?
One piece - in every moment, got breaks
Hxh - long hiatus
I saw you sneak in Luigi. 😂
Great video.
I have already known about that before. This is the reason why I would never release manga on a weekly basis if I was a manga author who lives in Japan.
the more realistic solution would be batching like HxH (not to the same degree). Give mangaka's breaks between arcs / volumes where they just work on the story and such without needing to release a chapter.
Osamu Nishi has been putting out chapters for Welcome to Demon School Iruma Kun weekly since 2017 and it has been the most consistent shonen manga, storytelling-wise, I’ve read in years. Shes even started to write for Ichi the Witch, another weekly title.
1:56 this example is not valid. There is a big difference between getting pressed by your boss and do what you love. If only i could make games and draw every hour of the the day I would do it. A really lazy mindset
Imagine slouching over a desk for twenty hours knowing you can't take a break
I feel there is also another aspect besides just the weekly release but the business side, for instance, popularity polls exist to show Jump what merch can get made which on the surface makes sense but also it's used by editors and Jump to encourage the mangaka to keep those characters alive to milk the merch it's something that does really tank a series when the steaks just aren't there, weekly release I do think is part of it because in general as well you are expected to release and keep viewers weekly and if they start to dip off you get axed even if you are a larger series. I think the manga industry is very ugly for a medium that has a lot of really great stories
I think another thing with the weekly schedule is that its a thing very specific to the shonen demographic, not that other demographics dont have some (Young Jumo is a weekly seinen magazine) but from what ive seen most seinen/shojo/josei magazines are monthly or biweekly. Heck for some magazines like Hana to Yume, they publish twice a month and most series are only present for one issue, which is good for the authors health and means they have more room for series so they arent as compeitive as something like Jump. A biweekly/monthly schedule would be fantastic, since that would allow the artists to rest more and plan out stories better, we also gotta remember they do a ton of work outside of serialization too (touch ups/bonuses for volume releases, overseeing adaptations like anime/games/stage plays, magazine covers and promotional art etc...) so that added time would allow them to better balance all of that without sacrificing ones quality for the other. Plus monthly manga tend to have longer chapters so itd be close to the same amount of content wed from a full month of weekly releases anyway. Digital magazines i feel are a little better since they have more flexible schedules, but they still tend to push for weekly so theres work to be done there too. Great video!
Re: the improved volume art - rough draft vs finished draft - they are running out of time and using rough draft pages to make the deadline of the magazine. I often see this called a drop in quality, which it is, but not in the way implied. The work wasn't done until the volume, really sad. I agree on the idea of at least biweekly WITHOUT a page increase as that would defeat the purpose. IF focused, a western psycho-hoes-beast like me can manage 20 pages in two weeks, they would be able to actually LIVE in that time, not die early and not have to publish the rough draft.
Ok but new wheel stream? I need my fix right now!
I'd say irregular to 3 chapters a month or even bi-weekly with rotating mangas each week
I agree with this video wholeheartedly, I do think it is important however to note that these are their DREAMS. Unlike the slaves at MAPPA being held at gun point (joking). I just imagine it’s easier for Oda to do this because he’s wanted to draw manga since he was a child. If I could be a millionaire and be loved by the entire world I think I’d be fine sleeping less, you forfeit freedom for fame that’s just the way it’s always been. I do think it would be nice to see other magazines put an end to jumps monopolization though. In the same way kick showed up and started taking streamers from twitch, someone could approach Fujimoto for CSM Pt.3 to be published in their magazine for: more creative control, no deadlines, and a larger share of profit from volume sales. Competition is the only way to improve conditions. Jump won’t just change unless they are forced to adapt to the times.
And they could easily put it up so for example blue lock comes one week, dandadan and kagurabachi the next, week after that is one piece or something like that yk?
I wanted to say that I got to somewhat experience what it’s like drawing a manga chapter and it further increased my respect for mangakas. Basically I had decided to redraw the entirety of jujutsu kaisen chapter 235 on traditional and It was the most mentally damaging thing that ever happened to me. Looking back on it, I have no clue why I chose to draw the chapter on poster boards( 22 x 28 inches if you’re wondering) but doing so made it 100 times harder to complete. Getting into how long I would draw for, I would get off at school roughly at 3:30 but would have to leave for work at 4:30, so I would cram in a much time as possible to draw. When I got home around 8 pm, I’d go straight to drawing, sometimes skipping dinner and would go to bed at 2 or 3am. On some days I woke up at 2 am to just be up drawing until 6 am which was the time I needed to get up for school. I continued to stay up for long periods even while I was out of town. I also forgot to mention that on some days, I wouldn’t even leave school until 5 pm because of driver’s education. So essentially, anytime I was home, I’d spend that time drawing. The whole time I was redrawing that chapter, I wondered how the hell does Gege and his editors manage to create high quality chapters on a nearly weekly basis. It also made me realize people don’t praise editors enough for their hard work. When I was nearly finished with all the pages I had a terrible cramp in my hand, my diet had been the worst it ever was and not to mention my sleep deprivation was so bad that I could not physically blink for hours at a time. When I had finally completed the chapter redraw, I wasn’t proud of myself really, just glad it was over. Even after completing something that crazy, I can In no way compare to any mangaka. I highly doubt you read all of this but if you’re interested in looking at the chapter redraw, you can find it at ultra_does_art on instagram. (And I am not asking for any followers or likes)
I don't think you can really stop the weekly schedule unless you just stop the weekly magazine and just release Volumes which will probably never happen as magazines are big deal in Japan
The sad things is that's brutal schedule is choice they must choose to be popular mangaka
For information they have many publishing schedule form weekly to yearly, the most common one is monthly
And with how mature they industry are now, it's more common to found light schedule to release a chapter (ex : 12 page/month)
But with many book released every month from dozens of magazine and website it's really really much harder to compete keeping your title in people awareness
That's why as ordinary mangaka your only choice to become big is try to publish in weekly magazine with the most audience or try your luck in more loose schedule hoping to strike a lightning somehow
The industry is harsh, i hope they will stay healthy and hard works pay off
I'd accept it! I think volume releases are the options that be done
Monthly would be SOOOOO much better, more time = time for quality, i am an anime fan but i dont just watch any slop that is on the top 10 seasonal, most animes nowadays SUCK, around 95% are so soulless remixes of remixes full of cliches and i think part of it is because they are the only ones possible to pump out like that
I feel like anime fans have such low expectations and standards or they just cant admit most animes suck
If it’s a superior product with a few more pages I don’t mind. I think to hold people over they should first release 3 chapters at the start of the manga.
It'd feel like comics for me. I don't buy a lot of comics but its nice to know that the ones I do come out with one issue a month. I buy it, read it then wait for the enxt
Full agree. I'm a collector so it would be great if my wallet had time to recharge between banger series too. Let the artists rest!