r/MangakaStudio

I finished a one-shot way back in January of this year. I've submitted it to Viz Originals, the Kadokawa and Kodansha manga competitions for this year, and the Kadokawa Mochikomi program. Nothing has come out of it; Viz Originals never responded, the awards for Kadokawa are taking an agonizingly long time to come out (and considering the sheer quality of the artwork for the works that won the Wordless Manga competition last year it feels like there is legitimately no way for a rookie like me to succeed at all), and it seems increasingly likely I'll never hear back for my portfolio review with Mochikomi.

It'd be one thing if I was rejected from these and at least heard some feedback as to why I was rejected. Learn more about where I need to improve and how I can do that. But it seems even this was too much, like I'm not even worth critiquing. It almost feels like I did all that work on my one-shot for literally nothing. The silence is completely deafening and there's no way I can make it stop. It's literally no better than applying for jobs, but I don't even have a degree to back up my work this time around.

It's just genuinely so disheartening. I literally dreamed that I finally got a review from Kadokawa a few nights ago. Whenever I read a manga I try to see if there's any info about how the author became a mangaka in the first place. I've even found myself reading the old one-shots of famous mangaka that won them awards (e.g Oda, Kubo, Hokazono, Fujimoto) and thinking about all the ways that (I think) my work is as good or even better.

Edit: I've received a lot of great feedback from this thread. My deepest gratitude for doing so honestly.

So, a few hours ago, someone posted here looking for an artist for a comic script they had. This is not uncommon... However, this post actually had a detailed synopsis of the story. I commented on it because it actually seemed like something I would be interested in and wanted to negotiate a payment. The poster DM'd me asking what I would want to work out. A very normal inquiry DM.

But here's the weird thing that's freaking me out a bit. The account, not just the post, the whole account was banned and removed from Reddit almost immediately after DMing me. I didn't even have time to look at the guys profile before it was taken down.

I'm wondering if it was some sort of bot or scam that almost got me but I can't wrap my head around what the end goal would have been. It's just really concerning that a bot/scam post could be that detailed.

Anyone else have something like this happen?

it's my first time trying this on my script and idk how to get in because im feeling stuck

i can tell you all about the story when you reach out, but for now i will get to the point, you getting paid.

after you or whoever joins with you draw chapter 1, i will start a kickstarter, pay you for your work with that money, and pay you to continue this +50 chapter series.

title: noname

genre: shonen

setting: medieval magical times.

contact:

send me samples and reach out via discord: Jud#3101 or nonameproductionsstar

Hey there everyone, I'm currently writing my first manga, it is still in the early writing and story boarding stage.

My story has many characters with varying abilities, such as some characters with weapons and some have more abstract abilities.

My question is how do you balance power within your world's manga? I've found that out of my 9 characters and 4 villains, I'm having a power creep problem where my side characters are seeming stronger than my main character.

I like the designs and abilities of my characters but I'm having problems with the power structure of all of the characters.

Hopefully this wasn't too confusing and I appreciate any feedback or conversation 😁👍