Nothing quite like watching your favorite manga artist draw real...While I’m still trying to recover from jet-lag and I “fight” against WordPress to try and install useful plugins and stuff, I’ve started selecting some videos and information I’d like to share. I still don’t have the time to edit any interviews and subtitle them (this will come in coming weeks), but for now here is a video of shōnen manga master Ken Akamatsu, author of Love Hina and Negima! (Magister Negi Magi), drawing this beautiful illustration of Nodoka Miyazaki:
This is by far the longest “mangaka in action” video I have, by the way; it’s 10 minutes long (and I’ve had to speed up the hair coloring process to make it shorter than the original). As you can see, Akamatsu-sensei did take this seriously!
(Also on Vimeo, if you prefer)
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Congratulation Marc on this GREAT Project! I’m willing to see and read all the interviews! This is a hard job to do, but will help all the people around the globe to understand better the japanase mangakas.
Best wishes and Fighting!
Thank you so much for your comment! Yes, this will be quite hard, but I’m very happy about it and I’ll do my best. The main point of this project would be to state that Japanese comic artists are not “robots”, they are humans and most of them are really good people!
Searching for this for some time now – i guess luck is more advanced than search engines
Wow, that’s a really excelent video, thanks for your work doing this amazing project.
A very interesting project you are working on. I can hardly wait for the coming videos of other mangakas.
Best wishes and good luck!
I just book marked your blog on Digg and StumbleUpon.I enjoy reading your commentaries.
[...] audiences for Satsuma Gishiden. Also new at Masters of Manga: a video clip of shonen manga-ka Ken Akamatsu (Love Hina, Negima!) drawing. (In Japanese with English or Spanish [...]
I loved it, I tweeted and liked it for further coverage for it.
Its a neat idea you have here as well, I’ll look into your other interviews from now on.
He’s a master! Thanks for the video!
Saludos.
Do you know what pen he was using? Thanks for uploading!
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Just found this today, pretty glad i did too
Nothing quite like watching your favorite manga artist draw real time 