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alphabeta
July 31, 2011, 01:28 PM
Old vs Young. Experience vs Hot blood. Traditions vs New ideas.

Is a place amongst the mangaka's of WSJ reserved only for young one's? Let's face the facts. The youngest RL mangaka is Nana Haruta, who has been published in a magazine at the age of 15. But that's an a exception. What does the statistic says?

Kishimoto made the pilot chapter of Naruto in 1997 (23 years) and got serialized in 1999 (25 years)

Kubo got Bleach serialized in 2002 at the age of 24

Oba got OP serialized in 1997 at the age of 22

Sorachi got Gintama serialized in 2003 at the age 24

Arakawa got FMA serialized at the age 28



Like it or not, but the statistic says, that finding a famous mangaka over 30 is not easy. Not talking about 40 or even 50 year old one's. Anyway, statistic is statistic. Let's hear what you think about this.

ErosVp
August 03, 2011, 07:06 AM
Well, You discover them young but they get older someday lol. I believe these guy will continue doing great things when they get older, but someone at later 40s that didn't do anything worth mention in the manga world hardly will have anything good to offer after that...