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How to make good manga?
A good manga don’t need to draw very carefully. The first thing is the Title and the book cover. It is very important because it is the first sight of this manga. The title need to be very easy to remember, so people can memorize it. The book cover needs to be very creative and strong. It also needs to show some information about this book.
So, my title is Shuppan Tai-man, it is very creative, and people like it. The book cover is the main character, and he is surrounding by manga. It shows that he is very interesting in manga.
After you finish the cover, you need to think a good way to start the story. Lots of manga like to start it by a dream, but I don’t. So, I start with a big yowling by the main character. The main character needs to be very special, so I give him six fingers, and it is very special because not everyone has 6 fingers.
After the first box, the next few boxes usually use to describe something carefully. And I draw two zooming images to describe what the main character has done. You can see that I leave a blank there, so I can draw other things later.
After two small boxes, a big box comes afterward. You can see that I draw other three characters that are very special. One is a girlish boy, and the other two are girls. But, remember that main characters need to be very special. So what I did to separate these two girls is to write something on her cloth. You con see a PON on her cloth.
After the big box, some little boxes come again. So I draw the details of three friends of the main character. Then another important thing comes again.
You are right; the big bad guy just brought a flag with a circle on it. The villain is important, so we can draw a little person first, and then the villain will come out in a very cool way. She said something very mean, so you can know that she is villain. We can see the bad guy, and she is a girl. She hold a flag with a circle in it, so even I didn’t tell you she is from Japan, you can still know it.
So, now the villain comes, and she is very cool and special too. You might know that she is the bad person even thought I didn’t tell you. She looks really bad, strait hair on the top, and curly hair at the end; Smile like a bad guy, with her vampire-like teeth. Wear a Japanese cloth, and shoe. And now, she shouts out her first word in front of the main character. A O !!! she said(People might not know what is A O, but it is ok because people love mystery), and held up her Japanese manga. . You should read Japanese manga, there s no Taiwanese manga. Very cool, and special.
So, now, it’s the time for main character and the big bad Japanese’s solve the problems face to face.
Another important point comes, the special skills and the power from the main character. You can see that his hand is on fire when he is drawing, but he feels no pain, really special.
. So, the Japan girl is shock, and trying to what the just happened
. The next box shows the main character win the fight, and the japan girl is very sad. So, now the bad Japanese start to respect the main character
Finally, the main character said his name, and shows his special manga hand. Also told his dream, so we can draw a manga base on fulfill Peter Lee’s dream.
This is just the beginning of the manga, it is not very long, but it is a well done work. So, make a good manga is not very difficult. Make the story interesting, make the characters special. Maybe you don’t have good drawing skills like I do; you can still make a good manga. Hope this documentary helps you on creating. Hope you can change Taiwanese manga, and I believe that we can let the whole world see our manga.
News
Manga
Lots of people love manga, but do you know the history and the development of manga? Manga this word is a cognate of the Chinese manhua, include comics and cartoons. Manga was discovered in 12 century, most of them are animal manga. At 1962, a magazine, Japan Punch, was publishing in Japan for people who are from other countries, and it was kind of famous. In 1874, Kanagaki Robun and Kawanabe Kyosai created the first manga-magazine which was influence by Japan Punch, Eshinbun Nipponchi. It draws in a very simple style and it did not become very famous. In 1905, a new manga- magazine published with Russo-Japanese War. It is very influential, and made a big process to caricature. This period is very important, its not only good to Japan, but also effect other countries. Japan’s manga start to develop until the Second World War, Japan was lake of paper. After the war, lots of manga-magazine was published. Include girl magazine, Nakayoshi, Weekly Shōnen Sunday, Weekly Shōnen Jump. The most famous work was Astro Boy, made by Osamu Tezuka. Finally, manga in nowadays is so important to everyone. Japan produces more and more manga, and they also make animations. We can say that, this country has the most influential power in manga.
I introduce Japanese manga first because every manga from different countries was inspired by Japan. For example, Hong Kong, America, and Taiwan’s manga were all impact by Japan. First, Hong Kong’s manga is creating in American style. They draw it in groups, but the editor can control everything. Even though it is draw in American style, the content is more like Japanese manga. The second country that got effect by Japan is America. Most of the content of American manga is about super hero. Different from Japanese manga, it only has four pictures in a page. The characters are different from Japanese manga, their characters are more Western. Finally, Taiwanese manga is the most similar one to Japanese manga. It is because Taiwan was under the control from Japan. During that period, lots of Japanese manga were made for kids. People in Taiwan were very interesting about it, and started to made manga. It was a very important time for Taiwanese manga; lots of famous works were made under Japanese control.
According to one Japanese report, almost 50% of teenagers watch manga once a week. They spend two hours a week in average, and they watch at least five different manga. We can know that manga is one very important thing to Japan, and it kind of become their culture. Another amazing thing about Japan is the number of the sales. Weekly Shōnen Sunday sales 2 million; Weekly Shōnen Jump sales 3.62 million; Weekly Shonen Magazine sales 4.05 million. These three manga-magazines are the most popular magazine in Japan now. Manga makes about six thousand billion money per year in average, and it is one of the main things in Japan’s economy. Another report from Taiwan’s college about how manga impact teenager’s life. In Taiwan, 43% of teenagers watch manga once a week. The most common type of manga they watch is shoujo manga and shounen manga. Shounen manga is manga that sell to male audience that are between 10 to 18 years old. Shoujo manga is the same as shounen manga, but it is sell to female audience. Teenagers spend about 200 on buying comics every month. But, all of the manga they bought were Japanese manga. In conclusion, I think sailing manga is a good thing to economy. Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of manga that made from Taiwan.
I had searched on lots of website for the most famous manga that people look at. There was only one Taiwanese comic in the top 30 popular manga. Hong Kong manga has six and the other 23 are all from Japan. This is an interesting problem that Taiwanese didn’t like Taiwan’s manga. I believe that Taiwan can make good manga, and we had had lots of famous manga. So, what is the main problem that Taiwan doesn’t produce our own manga? The main problem was the rules from our government in the past. The government stopped lots of produces in Taiwan years ago. Every manga that was about the government or something about China will get banned. This rule was the killer of Taiwanese manga, and all we can read in the past was very boring. So, this is one main problem for the depression of Taiwanese manga. Another problem happens after the government removes the rule. We had a short time for our manga revive, until we let Japanese manga invade our market. The manga from Japanese was totally better than us. Compare to our manga, not only the refinement, but the content, the setting, and the plot perfect. Under these manga, Taiwanese comics weren’t popular anymore. After Japan made their manga into animation, the population of Japanese manga went further and further. In the end, there is no space on the book shelf for Taiwanese manga. And the producer gave up and Taiwanese manga died.
After we study the history and some information about manga, do you feel more when you read comics? Do you want to read some classical manga suck as Astro Boy or Dragon Balls? And is there any ways that Taiwanese manga can revive? I will think about the last problem, because I think Taiwan has a market for manga. But, we pay all of the money to other countries. So, why don’t we think another way to let our manga be popular again and have our special Taiwanese manga!
Solution
According to the news I’ve done a week ago, Taiwanese manga is stuck in a plight on whether how to make it more famous. People in Taiwan had tried lots of solutions, for example, make it like Japanese style, encourage people to create more, they even tried to pay someone from Japan to create a Taiwanese manga. Unfortunately, all of these statements can not solve the problem. So what is the solution for this problem, and make our special manga?
To solve this problem, I did a lot of research. First, I went to some big comic stores and websites. I looked at the top ten selling and top ten popular comics. The top ten selling comics are One Piece, Naruto, Katekyo Hitman Rebron, Bleach, Fairy Tail, Gantz, History’s Strongest Disciple Kenichi, Toriko, EDEN NO ORI, and Beelzebub . They are all Japanese manga, and most of them are Shounen Manga. Then I asked the workers in the store about the average age of the customers. She said there are two types of them; one is looking for fun and buys one or two at a time, another one buy the whole set of comics. As we know, teenagers love comics, but the fact is that only adults have money to spend lots of money and buy comics. Finally, I search on the internet and discovered that 85% of the buyer that bought One Piece, Naruto and Katekyo Hitman Rebron are adults.
As I said, the best-selling and the most viewing of manga are Shounen Manga. Shounene Manga usually focuses on a main character or a group of people that have special power. They fight with enemies, meet new partners, learn new powerful skills, and become stronger and stronger. Also, they need to have different characteristic, so everyone is special. Some are powerful, some are funny, some are handsome or beautiful, and someone who is always opposes the main character. The last main thing is the setting and plot. It is important because it connect all of the characters and how and what thing will happens in the future. I think a good manga should contain those ideas. And this is why Taiwanese manga from twenty or ten years ago didn’t get popular. People in the past liked to draw things about government, or some historical story such as how Japanese bully us. Some manga even made from the government, and it’s all political manga. Those topics cannot catch the attention from people, and this is why Taiwanese manga can’t rise up.
Another main reason is the limitation from parents. According to the report from newspaper, 54% of parents don’t think manga is good for their children; 23% of them don’t even let their children read it, and the other 23% think it is not a big deal on reading manga. So, the majority of parents think that manga is bad for children’s education. But the fact is that most of our parents don’t even read the modern manga. They still think that manga are violent, pornographic, and teach them wrong thing, because they only read the manga from twenty years ago. However, manga from nowadays are just for fun. Reading manga is like eat a cake in the afternoon teatime. I cannot say it is good for teenagers, but I can say that it won’t make us a criminal (unless you addicted read it). So, I think reading manga is just for relax. Maybe our parents need to try it and feel our feeling.
There are lots of different ways to solve this problem, but I think the best statement is to encourage teenagers from creating. Even though the majority of the buyers are adult, teenagers are still the group that can change our country. Maybe our skills on drawing are not as good as Japanese; maybe we can’t publish it, but who care? A good manga is not like drawing landscape, you don’t need too many drawing skill. It emphasize its plot, character setting, and. And teenagers know what a teenager like, so I can said that teenagers are the most suitable group of people for this task. We don’t need to publish it on the market, we can just upload our works on the website and share with everyone first. Then if it gets popular, more and more people will start to drawing. If the government can create some competition, I think it will get better to inspire someone from drawing. Manga is a good commodity, it’s a global commodity. If we can solve this problem and make some good manga, we can be a better country. And I believe that we have a lot of talented person in Taiwan that can change our country.
