The Shonen Jump Guide to Making Manga

If you are looking to dip your feet on how to write manga and how it works you should buy it.It tells you how to to write a one shot manga of around 2-5 pages and how to start drawing manga the tools you need the mindset and at the end it has interviews with the industry professionals asking regular question I wouldn't recommend this book The Book i would recommend if you wanna dip dive in manga storytelling and character development and more which you should be looking for is the MANGA IN THEORY AND PRACTISE: The Craft of Creating Manga by Hirohiko Araki IT IS WRITEN BY THE INDUSTRY TITAN.

It doesn't give you shortcuts or do this step by step, but give you a great knowledge of starting point.Especially in the first chapter. It give some good advice about creating the panels and how to use to them.Yes, it repeated lot of time from the different authors to 'draw from real life'. I get it why because you need a great knowledge about what you draw. Even if it just a chair or a huge ship. It is important to understand their mechanism to use this in a manga.I like at every end of chapter has this 'try out' practice. It's help. A lot.It doesn't give you a process of publishing and supervising etc. BUT it is giving you the mindset for creating a manga and characters! How to play around with the panels etc. It give you a great shot to start planning because every start can be hard.It really gives you a healthy mindset to start your manga.

If you're hoping for a step by step how to draw book then don't look here. Its mainly just interviews with creators and a little bit of art to show how a page might be put together, but it doesn't contain anything teaching you how to draw in the Manga style. Waste of money really and not worth the price at all, which is a shame coming from Shonen Jump fan.

I purchased the kindel version of this book, and it is excellent! I am a graphic artist of 2 decades experience, and I have a passion for learning to create my own manga. This book has very very solid advice for anyone starting out on this journey at any age. For me storytelling is the biggest challenge when it comes to manga and comics, I have the technical skills, but the story and characters is the heart of it! This makes that very clear, by example! Take the advice they give, follow it! It's that simple, not easy! But simple and straight forward. Very much recommend this book!

It's really great

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amazing!

The Shonen Jump Guide to Making Manga is really good, because its primary emphasis is on doing the work rather than a quick and easy shortcut or telling you step by step how to do this or that. It's meant to help you get into a healthy mindset of what it takes to get good.There's a ton of top mangaka and editors in it giving opinions and stuff. It's a bit like a Shonen Jump Masterclass without all the fat of having to make fluff material for that Masterclass check. I've found some extremely valuable advice in this book so far.Both as an artist and a writer, I think this book is really great. But again, the emphasis is on doing the work and being healthy about it. You can't go into the book expecting it to make you good at anything! It's like a mangaka philosophy book almost.There is a balance between the extremes of "grind yourself to death" and "fear of tackling your artistic weaknesses head on". I think reading this entire book can help one know what it takes to progress as an artist and writer, the healthy and progress-oriented mindset it takes.