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Revealed to the French public with A Silent Voice touching story about the subject of deafness, published between 2015 and 2016 by Ki-Oon, named in the categories "Jury Prize – Best Screenplay" and Public Prize – Best Shonen Japan Expo Awards 2016, its next title To Your Eternity published since 2017 by Pika Editions, finally wins the "Best New Series Award" Japan Expo Awards 2017.
It is therefore a much appreciated mangaka that we discovered, accompanied by its two tantos publishers working specifically for one or two mangakas. Yoshitoki Oima on the other hand, was discreet during this one-hour conference: indeed it was essentially his tantos who answered the questions while the mangaka was working on a drawing.
Two small disappointments therefore: first the discretion of the mangaka most often the nose on his drawing, even if his tantos were generally able to answer for his place, and then an illustration that was not exposed at the end, as tradition, because digital. In addition To Your Eternity was exclusive to the meeting
However, besides that, the conference proved to be rich in teaching about relations working between mangaka and tanto . It is on this subject that the first question was asked, about a role they described in two points: to take charge of the problems of the working environment of the mangaka and offer him his advice on the content of his
The question on the graphic research of the sets arrived immediately afterwards since To Your Eternity has for particularity to propose a trip around the world, evoking alternately the great northern European or India. However no mystery in the work of Yoshitoki Oima: she first imagines all the elements in her head, because she writes a work of fantasy, then she carries out research on real places to find models.
More interesting revealed the question of the personality of the characters whom Im meets, the hero of the work. They are the result of numerous discussions between tantos and mangaka according to always the same approach: the character is designed according to the direction that Yoshitoki Oima wants to make take to Imm. 19659008] Yoshitoki Oima explaining his method of work
Thus they gave the example of Tonari for which they hesitated a long time if she would bring anything to Imm at the time of her narrative arc or after. They decided just before his appearance in the story, at the very last moment!
When Yoshitoki Oima presented the project of To Your Eternity to his mentors, the latter immediately felt that he was going to of a great work but it was also necessary to respect certain codes of shônen because the series would be published in a magazine of this type. The compromise was found with the initiatory course and the evolution of Imm which correspond to the standard of the kind, as for the rest, the soûs recognized that they eyed rather towards the seinen of the young adult type.
Yoshitoki Oima also spoke about the values conveyed by the work. They are suffering people who can not get what they want and need to learn to live and evolve with their misfortunes. Of course, she said that she loved all her characters and that she did not make them suffer for pleasure!
Imm, meanwhile, symbolically crosses clbadical phases of life and the story reproduces encounters he would have made in real life. Thus the mangaka has confirmed that his first encounters correspond to that with the mother, the big brother and the band of friends of the school. She also added that currently Imm had the mental age of a 14-year-old.
The audience asked why the role of the mother had been badigned to a little girl, March in this case, but the mangaka replied that it was a girl who was never going to grow up, but thanks to Imm she had realized her dream of becoming an adult and a mother.
He was also asked what the recipe was a good character and a good hero. For the first, it is someone who can evolve the hero and history. As for a good hero, he is a rather lonely person, who has weaknesses.
- One of the tantos answering the questions
An example was given on how the fantasy world of the work can to be used to decide certain decisions concerning the story: when Googoo's character was saved by an old eccentric, he decided to use his stomach to produce alcohol. The mangaka and the tantos hesitated to stage this strange idea but as it was a work of fantasy, they told themselves that it pbaded.
Then came a more technical work of the mangaka and its publishers. Yoshitoki Oima explained that she was still working carefully on the first box of the chapter to "catch" the magazine's readers who are just leafing through. It also always adds a catch on the bottom of the first page to give the reader the desire to turn it!
In terms of the organization of the work week, Yoshitoki Oima makes her boards on Thursday morning, then in the evening she discusses with his tantos of the following chapter. She then draws the storyboards until Saturday. And once validated, she tackles the realization of the boards from Sunday to Thursday morning. Thursday offers him a half day of rest.
On the division of roles between his two tantos, the youngest is responsible for recovering boards and dealing with environmental issues while the elder takes care of proofreading and retouches for the version of the bound volumes. When a bound tome is conceived and ends on pages left free in the last notebook, the tanto can propose to the mangaka to realize a bonus, even if it can refuse and leave these pages not used. The oldest soo also revealed that he was working on a second series in parallel, Love & Lies published in France by Pika.
The involvement of tantos depends on the work but it is a question of doing everything possible to publish it. The tanto attempts to listen to both the desires of the author and the expectations of the public, and his role can also be to energize the mangaka that the rhythm week after week can numb. Obviously there is a lot of stress because of the competition between the magazines, but also between the authors.
Then came a question about the number of volumes the work was going to count. The tantos recalled that the question remained delicate even if they had an agenda with "check points". Yoshitoki Oima said frankly that she thought she would have another two years. The tantos considered that it would probably be longer, even if they admitted that the story was moving faster than in their original plan.
The question of adaptation in Hot . They admire having already received several proposals but it is a clbadic approach and for the moment nothing concrete was planned.
Finally the conference ended on the choice of music that could accompany the work, but the mangaka remained evasive (fancy and varied music), as well as the origins of her vocation, which she evoked simply by mentioning that her childhood was not very funny and that she spent her time drawing.
A beautiful meeting with a talented artist, pampered by critics rightly, and whose freedom of speech on certain issues, especially over the duration of To Your Eternity was a pleasant surprise.
- Imm in the process of remove the string that returns each time it takes the form of the boy
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