Anonymous
8/16/2025, 3:58:39 AM
No.281496594
>Question 11: You started by creating fan-manga before becoming the official mangaka of Dragon Ball Super. What advice would you give to someone who wants to make their own manga?
>Toyotaro: I don’t think I have the right to brag about it, but I was a big fan of Toriyama’s works, and I kind of appropriated them without permission to tell my own stories using Dragon Ball, but with my own perspective and original drawings.
>I didn’t become a mangaka in order to draw Dragon Ball; I became a mangaka because I wanted to draw Dragon Ball. So I don’t think I’m in a position to give lessons to someone who wants to become a mangaka.
>But if someone really wants to draw Dragon Ball, it might be interesting to take the same approach: create your own version, then present it to Shueisha and see what happens.
>Torishima: When young people ask me at conventions how to become a mangaka, I always tell them they need to respect three things:
>Study Japanese and literature seriously. You need to master words so you can use them well in the dialogue inside speech bubbles. A story is built around that kind of dialogue. You need to have a sense of style in writing dialogue and the vocabulary to do it well. As I said earlier, I find the literary level of most current manga quite weak.
>Make lots of friends. Humans are connected to each other, they know and affect one another. Drawing a manga is about drawing the world.
>Show resilience. When a mangaka is staring at a blank page, they have to create a whole universe, and that’s a task that takes massive energy.
>If you manage to bring those three things together, the path to becoming a mangaka becomes accessible.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:20:35 AM
No.281177282
>Question 11: You started by creating fan-manga before becoming the official mangaka of Dragon Ball Super. What advice would you give to someone who wants to make their own manga?
>Toyotaro: I don’t think I have the right to brag about it, but I was a big fan of Toriyama’s works, and I kind of appropriated them without permission to tell my own stories using Dragon Ball, but with my own perspective and original drawings.
>I didn’t become a mangaka in order to draw Dragon Ball; I became a mangaka because I wanted to draw Dragon Ball. So I don’t think I’m in a position to give lessons to someone who wants to become a mangaka.
>But if someone really wants to draw Dragon Ball, it might be interesting to take the same approach: create your own version, then present it to Shueisha and see what happens.
>Torishima: When young people ask me at conventions how to become a mangaka, I always tell them they need to respect three things:
>Study Japanese and literature seriously. You need to master words so you can use them well in the dialogue inside speech bubbles. A story is built around that kind of dialogue. You need to have a sense of style in writing dialogue and the vocabulary to do it well. As I said earlier, I find the literary level of most current manga quite weak.
>Make lots of friends. Humans are connected to each other, they know and affect one another. Drawing a manga is about drawing the world.
>Show resilience. When a mangaka is staring at a blank page, they have to create a whole universe, and that’s a task that takes massive energy.
>If you manage to bring those three things together, the path to becoming a mangaka becomes accessible.
