I've always wondered this. Im American, but im also Puerto Rican. I've been drawing all my life, and i look at these magas and i see the creator's onfo. THEY ARE ALL JAPANSESE!!!!!! I have never see any other ace be a manga artist. I cant have the job?
2007-07-02 10:06:53 · 12 answers · asked by Evaの 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
It can be done.
Melissa DeJesus, for example, writes graphic novels that are pretty much the same as manga. She was born in New York:
http://www.gomanga.com/news/features_gomanga_005.php
2007-07-02 10:20:10 · answer #1 · answered by McFate 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are alot of people who think that only japanese people can create manga, but that just isn't the case. Manga is just a storytelling medium- not a genetic trait. I know right now that the manga industry is dominated by japanese titles, but it is slowly becoming more diversified. Manwha (korean-manga) is gaining popularity and a few american artists have even managed to breakthrough. If you still have doubts, go to the bookstore & read through a volume of Dramacon, I Luv Halloween, Re:Play or I.N.V.U. I think you'll see that manga is global.
2007-07-02 12:27:05 · answer #2 · answered by airichan97 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course! American people draw manga and I bet loadsa different people around the world draw manga, you don't have to be japanese to be a mangaka lol =P
2007-07-02 10:43:34 · answer #3 · answered by TT_____TT D a n g o :( +*+*+*+ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sure... all it takes to be an manga artist is no talent, just the ability to copy the same exact characters from every other manga and if you can make them move once or twice a minute, add those silly motion lines and sweat droplets, you are then an anime artist too...
2007-07-02 20:01:57 · answer #4 · answered by lisa_mynx 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can. People have published graphic novels (not nessecarily manga) in America. You can though, nothing is really stopping you.
2007-07-02 10:11:46 · answer #5 · answered by sawlmw2003 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course, anime is one of my favorite things to draw (and I'm white/italian)!
2007-07-02 10:33:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
of corse u can be a manga artist, any other person who says so is racist.
2007-07-02 13:16:57 · answer #7 · answered by Ikuto~Luver 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course you can there are only so few limitations in life and this is not one of them so go for it if you really want to!!
2007-07-02 11:42:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-07-02 11:19:14 · answer #9 · answered by Matthew 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah u can reach for your dream. like how i'm gonna be hokage one day beside naruto BELIVE IT transalation DATTABAYOO
2007-07-02 13:26:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋