Biography

Manga is actually a really inconvenient form of media. There are no colors, no movement, no voices and no music. Yet you must express all those things, through drawing only. This is the challenge that makes it so interesting and fuels my desire to draw more. Because everyone competed with each other and developed new methods, it has evolved into something truly unique, despite being so inconvenient. But there is still room for it to develop further and there is a kind of joy in making your own discoveries. So, take a step outside of Japan's world of anime and manga, add some of your own culture and customs and draw something that is unique and distinctive of your part of the world. Through this competition, Japan's manga formula will continue to evolve all over the world, and I'm looking forward to something completely new being born.

I'm one of those guys who doesn't really listen to the lyrics in a song. Sometimes I think the lyrics are actually in the way. The beauty of the melody, the rhythm and the sound itself is often more than enough for me to feel the emotions and the storyline. Music without lyrics might not work to explain a complex fictional world, but you don't need lyrics to move someone.

Perhaps due to the influence of anime, young authors nowadays only think about the fast scenes. Manga is about utilizing both "static" and "dynamic" scenes to mesmerize the reader.

If you draw only from your own point of view, you become complacent and this can derail your story. Of course, there is a certain pleasure in drawing manga only for oneself, so I can't say that this is a hard-and-fast rule, but if you are drawing for a magazine and you want to please your readers, then I think it's really important to view your work from above, like an impartial god.

Regardless of country or generation, young people are young people. Growing up through the same kind of hardships, living energetically all the same. Realization of that really lifted my spirit.