Top Mangaka: “Manga is in Decline”

[doubledoank]

Tamiki Wakaki, a top Shonen Sunday mangaka, has voiced his concerns that the Japanese manga industry is in long-term decline, and that authors not writing in the four staple genres of ero, parody, bishonen, and bishoujo can no longer expect to support themselves commercially.
The mangaka himself, 若木民喜 / Tamiki Wakaki, active for a decade and widely published in Shonen Sunday, is best known for his popular “Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai,” unsurprisingly a romantic comedy serialised in Shonen Sunday.
He is pessimistic about the manga industry he sees as being in long-term decline, with the future of the industry in doubt over the coming decades thanks to a limited influx of new talent:

“Manga magazines are boring, so they attract no fresh blood. Competition subsequently slackens. New artists are tried vigorously, but none are able to be serialised for long.
As a result experienced authors are called in out of necessity, but though their books may sell the magazines themselves become dull – this attracts even less new blood, and so the cycle continues.
In the past new artists were a dime a dozen, but now no matter how hard you search they are scarcer and must be nurtured carefully. Especially now in the era of lower birth rates, nobody can fail to notice this, the new artists are gradually decreasing in number. Both the mangaka who can sell a million copies and their fanbases are aging…
It’s going to be especially difficult to make a living for the kind of authors who can’t pen ero/parody/bishonen/bishoujo manga (in fact it is right now).”

It seems the four genres featured now cover the bulk of recent titles, not that they were lacking in popularity to begin with.
However, Mahoromatic creator Bow Ditama does hold out some hope for those poor wretches uninterested in endlessly drawing pantsu manga:

“Certainly, if you can’t draw cute girls it is going to be hard. But no mangaka are dying of starvation. Even if you can’t draw girls, you can still earn a living on subculture magazines and ‘deep’ manga magazines, and you can also work as an assistant to a pro.
It seems online assistants or whatever are quite in demand too [these are assistants who work remotely and submit manuscripts to their master electronically, rather than being physically present in the traditional manner].”

Their voices join the many others who have begun voicing their doubts as to the direction the Japanese visual culture industry is taking, with both anime and manga shying away from risky projects in favour of courting niche audiences or publishing staid works in highly rigid genres.
Is such an industry capable of producing the next Evangelion or Ghost in the Shell?

Via Sankaku


apakah benar Manga sudah menuju lembah kekelaman?

apakah benar dimasa depan Manga hanya berisi Moe,Bishoujo,Panty,dsb2?

apakah suatu saat nanti masterpiece2 Manga baru akan muncul?

Discuss!!!!!!

[AldyBennet]

hmmm.......

menarik......

tapi keknya banyak kok judul judul baru yg keren....

kayak Ao no Exorcist gitu....

kagak lah... masa isinya itu doang....

ya... kalo masalah seorang mangaka harus bisa menggambar ero/parody/bishonen/bishoujo..
ga mungkin lah ada mangaka yg ga bisa gambar gituan.... mereka pasti belajar lah...
kan dah ada sekolahnya.... itu kan juga faktor penting demi masa depan mereka...
tergantung pasar jg sukanya manga yg kek gimana...., mereka juga pasti ga sembarangan
cuman bikin manga yg isi nya fan service doang... gw yakin kok sama kemampuan mereka...

[SrZ]Xevirath]

Sebenernya menurutku Death Note & Code Geass itu bagus

ngga banyak aneh2nya kan ?

[doubledoank]

mangakanya Death Note si Takeshi Obata kan termasuk angkatan mangaka lama....

dan btw Code Geass itu kan awalnya dari Anime baru di adaptasi ke manga,dsb...

[AldyBennet]

kalo manga Ao no Exorcist gimana? bagus tuh... coba check deh...

[mugen]

jadi istilahnya mangaka angkatan baru lebih banyak ngebawa eroge,moe,dkk gitu?

[AldyBennet]

keknya sih.. yg kek gituan, emang ampuh buat menarik pembaca... tapi menurut gw pribadi... fan service sih ok.. tapi asalkan cerita nya jelas en story line nya bagus..

[mugen]

untuk elo mah liat cwo fanservice aja dah puas

tp memang seh akhir2 ene manga-manga yang terkenal isinya hal2 TSB
jd rada kurang sreg

[Eishun]

Yup,angkatan baru umum nya juga gtw

macem kek TLR kan juga cuma fan service [cerita nya ga di beratin,lebi ke fan service]

kalo bole tau angkatan brapa ampe brapa tah yg lama am baru? Naruto bleach itw angkatan lama jadi masi titik berat di cerita. . .

Ah mau moe moe pantsu juga ga ap ap, yg penting gw enjoy lagi. . . .



flying pantsu

[AldyBennet]

untuk elo mah liat cwo fanservice aja dah puas

tp memang seh akhir2 ene manga-manga yang terkenal isinya hal2 TSB
jd rada kurang sreg

maksudnya yaoi?

tapi keknya perkembangan industri anime en manga di jepang, santai santai aja deh.... opini mereka kan ga terlalu mempengaruhi permintaan konsumen

[mugen]

ya kek film2 indo aja
kalo manga isinya eroge,moe,dkk
kalo film isinya horror,cinta2an,ama komedi dewasa

[AldyBennet]

makanya tergantung fans juga....

lagi pula emang genre yg kek gitu lagi diminati...

tapi jg tar ada keluar judul judul baru yg imba.. gw yakin

[kuphien]

buat gw terlalu banyak yang udah "main stream" juga bosenin....
kesannya pembaca di suguhkan hanya gitu2 aja....

tapi yang jadul2 juga agak kurang dmen...
tau kan yang sebangsa dragon ball ato saint seiya....

[Redloner]

Gwa berencana untuk terjun ke dunia manga jepang nantinya dan emang gwa uda sadar banget kalo manga2 baru sekrang ini cuma ngedepanin unsur moeshit semua.. Makanya gwa kalo bisa pengen ngerubah itu semua..

Menyedihkan sekali mang kondisinya kalo mau jujur.. Yang sekarang itu manga2 yang gwa baca cuma sebagai source hiburan doang.. Bukan pemuas kenikmatan haus cerita gwa..

[doubledoank]

Dragon Ball,Saint Seiya,Evangelion,One Piece,Gundam dsb2 itu Epic

sampe 10-20 tahun lagi juga orang2 masih demen dan ingat....

Saint Seiya aja sampe di buat ulang franchisenya(Saint Seiya Lost Canvas,Next Dimension,db2)....

sementara manga2 moe2/ecchi pada umumnya nga bertahan lama, ntar begitu tamat muncul lagi genre yang sama dan yang lama pun terlupakan.......

malah sekarang alur erita yang Epic malah banyak ditemukan di Game dan Light Novel...

liat belakangan tahun ini berapa banyak Anime2 bagus yang diangkat dari Game/Light Novel?

FSN,Clannad,Bakemonogatari,Shana,Spice&Wolf.....