Question Togashi’s Assistants?

[mrsticky005]

This may be a question that none of us may actually know and if people want to speculate that’s cool.

but anyone have any idea just how much
of Hunter X Hunter is drawn by Togashi and how much is assistants?

I mean does Togashi just do pencils?
Or does he ink too? Backgrounds?
Effects? Speech bubbles? Shading?

I mean either way it’s still Togashi’s art
so long as it’s his vision but it’s just interesting to think about

 

[uberfayt]

Iirc, Togashi makes the raws (which include speech bubbles, main background and characters), inks everything he made in the raws and leaves background effects and background characters to the assistants. I think he also adds text neatly to speech bubbles.

 

[mrsticky005]

Iirc, Togashi makes the raws (which include speech bubbles, main background and characters), inks everything he made in the raws and leaves background effects and background characters to the assistants. I think he also adds text neatly to speech bubbles.

Would “raw” be the story board stage
or the “pencils” ?

for backgrounds is it that Togashi is story boarding a general idea of what he wants and
then hands it over to the assistants to pencil, add details and ink

or is Togashi penciling every single BG character for example and then leaves the inking to assistants?

or maybe some where in between?

 

[Aeneas]

See this post.

Though we'll never know the exact details (which is the case with every mangaka).

 

[mrsticky005]

Togashi: writing, storyboards, drafts; in the final manuscript, he's drawing and inking all the noteworthy characters. In this chapter, that would be everyone.

Assistants: backgrounds (including speed lines and screentone) and background characters.

The only time the assistants would help with the noteworthy characters is if it involves more details on clothes (e.g., the screentone on the Mafia member's shirt and the detail on Phinks' pants).

Here's a good magazine/volume comparison from chapter 378:

I quoted your post here so it’s easier to read

 

[Kanmuru]

I answered this in another thread so here we go again:

Here's an example of what togashi most likely does per page (green)

Of course this changes from page to page, but a lot of mangakas do this flow of work: drawing main characters/objects and let the assistants do the background, tones, action lines, background characters, etc.