Raiku vs Shogakukan part 3
Tons of people in the industry have been coming out with their own personal experiences in the manga industry ever since Raiku Makoto announced that lawsuit with Shogakukan.
Many seem to have experience with having the original copies of their manuscripts getting lost by the editorial team, and many also comment on how cheaply Raiku is being paid on a per page basis in contrast to how popular Konjiki no Gash is. (he probably makes a fortune from the tankoubon royalties, but it doesn’t make sense to be paid much less per page than an unpopular author)
Shinjo Mayu (Kaikan Phrase author) talks about her experience working on Shoujo Comic, another magazine that is being run by Shogakukan. She says she worked long hours with little sleep everyday in order to keep up with the pace that is demanded of her by the magazine, and even after staying with the same magazine for 13 years, she was told by the chief editor that her serialization would be cancelled and she would be moved to another magazine when she wanted to change the direction of her manga.
The new magazine that she was asked to move to also wanted her to continue drawing manga that was in the same fashion as before instead of what she wanted to do. So she decided to leave Shogakukan, but when she did, they threatened to make all her books go out of print. (They didn’t in the end)
She also makes a second post where she makes a killer pass saying that she’s leaving the rest to Kumeta.
Shounen Sunday’s official statement is that Raiku is lying
Takato Rui (Cynthia the mission author) kinda supports Shinjo Mayu’s statement in the comments.
Umekawa Kazumi (Gau Gau Wata author) talks about her personal experiences of being mistreated in the manga industry and supports Raiku’s stance.
Yanmura (Shounen Sunday manga assistant) says that a certain author on Shounen Sunday was told to “please draw One Piece” when they were planning a new serialization. That’s not “draw something like One Piece”, it’s “draw One Piece”.
Wakaki Tamiki (Kami no mi zo shiru sekai author) asks readers to not forsake Shounen Sunday (gotta highlight to see the message)
Watanabedenki Inc. (mangaka) says that both sides are not trying to see from the point of view from the other side and the whole incident is childish. But he is surprised at how little Raiku is paid per page.
Gotou Hideki (mangaka) shares his experience where his manuscripts, both monochrome and colour pages, got lost too, except it was before they were even published in a tankoubon.
Harada Takayuki (ex-assistant for Shinsei motemote oukoku author) talks about how his manuscripts were also treated negligently when he was with Shounen Sunday but he wasn’t verbally abused and he did not really experience any trouble when with them. However he has heard of many people that left Sunday because of problems with the editors, and he wishes to show his support for Raiku’s stance against Shogakukan.
Hagiwara Reiji (ALIEN hihouden author) says that he doesn’t get an urge to support Raiku when reading the details of the lawsuit, but he feels that such actions from mangaka protesting against the editors should be welcome.
Ueda Miki (Bakuretsu!! Kungfu musume author) she used to work with Shogakukan too, and she strongly supports Raiku’s stance against the editorial department in Shogakukan as she says that she herself has also experienced very unreasonable treatment which caused her to completely leave the manga industry.
Hanamizawa Qtarou (REC author) is currently serialized with Shogakukan and feels that he’s lucky as he has not been verbally abused or forced to draw manga that he doesn’t want to.
Takeshita Kenjirou (Happy world! author) had a serialization on Shogakukan many years ago and he says that he too has had a similar experience working with editors that aren’t motivated to work or don’t like manga at all, but he has also had good editors that he respected.
There is still a lot more mangaka who are commenting on this thing, but… there are too many.
