Interview on how to incorporate characters into the world of the work, making works of manga artist Yaga Satoru and its life

Media mix such as animation / novelization was done "E'S"(Monthly G Fantasy series) as a representative"Laz Meridian"(Monthly Princess series),"Golden Corridor"(Monuka Asuka) and other works have been drawnYaga SatuMr. In April 2010 I painted all colors and "Chigo and the red heart of the lost childWe publish and publish the genre-free work.

This time, I talked about various stories, from the reason why Mr. Yaga wished to be a manga artist, how I came up with that work.

Interview from below
The latest drawn works "Chigo and the red heart of the lost childMr. Yaga who got it.


◆ I was not aiming for manga artists from the beginning
GIGAZINE:
On the official website, you are writing a recent blog like a blog, but are you looking at the net pretty much?

Yaga Satoru:
I usually turn off the computer. After all, is everyone leaving the computer on?

GIGAZINE:
People who use it will keep the power on all the time.

Yaga:
Although I am watching it on a cell phone, not a personal computer.

GIGAZINE:
I see.
So, quickly, please tell me why you were a manga artist.

Yaga:
I did not feel like becoming a manga family ...... When thinking about going out of high school and going to the art system, I thought that I would like to do a package design etc work rather than drawing a picture, but the school teacher said, "Even if I go to school seriously, I hit a job difficulty Because it is not always possible to become what I want to be, so it was better to go to the company to practice to make a junkie ", so he gave me advice and was working part-time in the summer vacation. This time was really chore than designing.
But, it has graduated as it is. I decided to go to the picture road suddenly and kicked the university's recommendation, so my parents said "I decided what I would like to do in the next year, if it is not decided it is no good".

GIGAZINE:
I see.

Yaga:
From the time I was a child I was told that I was "good at painting" and "the future is a manga artist" but there are only a handful of people who will become manga artists in my childhood, and the painter is a proper job I thought that I did not understand, so I disliked the picture on the contrary. However, as soon as I go to high school and want to do picture with Futtsu, I hear stories of classmates who wish to go to a beautiful college, or go to preparatory school, it is too late to start from that time.

GIGAZINE:
Really.

Yaga:
What you want to do is going to a magnificent drawing and drawing. I returned to the laughter of my childhood. When I was looking for work related to design relationships and drawing, I found a manga artist's recruitment,Mr. Inuma MumatsumiI started to assist you at. So I was told that "Do you want a manga award?", I made a story, combined it with the background, did not feel charm by breaking the coma .... It is fun to read, but I thought that if I was to become that occupation, I needed attentive attitude.

GIGAZINE:
indeed.

Yaga:
I was told to Mr. Inamata "I'm a judge, so please do not put out", but I declined "I can not put out because I have not drawn it".

GIGAZINE:
How (lol) I made my manga debut in short stories after this,Monthly G FantasyYou win the Newcomer Award, and the manga artist begins.

Yaga:
I agree. Since it began, I became side by side with those who thought that I wanted to become a manga artist, so I studied desperately if I could not make it a hesitant feeling.

GIGAZINE:
I see. By the way, did you like reading people?

Yaga:
I like the people who read it.

GIGAZINE:
What kind of work were you reading?

Yaga:
It was a feeling that we should not buy much other than manga that was at home (laugh)Tezuka OsamuMr.ChibantoHe was only reading works like something that exceeds 20 volumes. When I was in junior high school, I read magazines at school and knew the work from there.

GIGAZINE:
It was quite a difficult home as a bad news to buy.

Yaga:
It was tough. When asked to do an assistant of a manga artist, I was asked "Is it done to become a manga artist?" "Because it is water merchandise, it is absolutely useless!" I was told.

GIGAZINE:
I see ... How was your reaction after debutting?

Yaga:
Even though I can debut, I can not approve of it. When did you admit that it was ... it was useless even if the booklet came out.

GIGAZINE:
Actually, have you bought all the books at home, you never did?

Yaga:
It is not such a drama-like thing (laugh) In the end, I did not aim to draw a work with a magazine whose parents would also find it at convenience stores, but I chose a magazine that I can do what I want to do So it is not comics that parents can understand from the first stage.

GIGAZINE:
I guess you are thinking that you are doing some kind of comic book now.

Yaga:
I agree.

Ms. Yuka, I'm in the process of signing.


◆ How to make a Yaga Satoru flow work
GIGAZINE:
I think that the work of Yaga overall has a lot of fantasy atmosphere, but do you still like that kind of atmosphere?

Yaga:
I like.

GIGAZINE:
Of this time"Chigo and the red heart of the lost childSomething has an atmosphere like a picture book, though.

Yaga:
I also like this.

GIGAZINE:
Previously drawn "E'SThe battle element was strong. What kind of line do you like?

Yaga:
I like to put characters in a certain world and to live, so if you are "Chigo" you will find a character that was in this world, and if it is "E 'S" it is a character that fits in that world.

GIGAZINE:
It is not like having a character but it is a feeling of making the world.

Yaga:
So, I do not think the difference is either "Chigo" or "E'S". In "Chigo" it is not that I changed the picture by shrinking my head, but if I have an E'S character in this world I will not float. The genre has nothing to do with it.

GIGAZINE:
I see. So, is there still an idea that such a world is nice in my mind, that such a world is also good?

Yaga:
I do not come out so much with pom-pom, but I like to think about the world view.

GIGAZINE:
Do you often see novels?

Yaga:
It is a lot. I can read novels other than drawing works.

GIGAZINE:
What kind of trend do you like favorite works?

Yaga:
That's right ...... I read period novels and fantasies, and also mysteries. Even if you make a mystery or a fantasy, emphasis is placed on how much of the inside people are involved, and the likes and dislikes are clearly divided. Eyes tend to disposition of characters etc rather than solving puzzles.

GIGAZINE:
Do you think that reading "I wish this character should do this"?

Yaga:
There is (laugh) So, rather than when I started drawing manga, I gradually feel that the work of illustration in a novel is difficult. I read purely as a reader the work of others and read from the illustration of this scene's illustration and work, and I read about three ways of thinking "I wish I could do this" by myself.

GIGAZINE:
When "E 'S", you write your own novels, but are you also writing sentences?

Yaga:
I usually do not write it. It is only at this time.

GIGAZINE:
I think it is a rare case that manga artists write their own novels, but why was Mr. Naga written in this case?

Yaga:
There are parts that can not be said not to be off the record for a moment, but in charge, like "write by yourself" ....

GIGAZINE:
I did not raise my hand saying "write by myself", it was the judge's responsibility.

Yaga:
At that point it was still a long way to go, so it seems that there would be settings that only the author knew.

GIGAZINE:
Will you write a novel again in the future?

Yaga:
I do not think. Since the acquaintance of the novelist also increased, it can not be embarrassed that he can not do that kind of thing.

GIGAZINE:
Do you have a manga family like rivals in the sense of prosperous hands, do not cut each other?

Yaga:
Well, it's hard to find because the serialization of magazines has ended. Also, there are few people who make sync debuts, and when I made a short debut from Akita bookstore, there were also years that my teachers were assistant and those who were working as an assistant were away. On the contrary, when I drew again at the Akita Bookstore the other day as if coming back, I was told that "The teacher and this teacher is about the same age", but it was not always drawn together forever.

GIGAZINE:
Do you have a writer who likes how to make this person's view of the world?

Yaga:
Well ... (long thinking) ... There are a number of people, not just one but this person is this work, that person is like that work, so if I say that my favorite manga artist draws a favorite work ... this time Something a bit different (laugh)

GIGAZINE:
There are many places where you read "I like Coco" as well.

Yaga:
I agree. However, because this writer is a taste, there are places where you do not draw like this when you do it yourself.

GIGAZINE:
Is that what you want to do with yourself?

Yaga:
No, I am doing this well because I am this person, I do not draw like this if I am your own direction, I wish I could do it in the wind. But, if you say that it will work if you manage it ... right?

GIGAZINE:
I see.

◆ Manga family · Yaga Sataru's life
GIGAZINE:
What sort of rhythm are you living a life with?

Yaga:
My job is to take the engine slow. Even if I draw 5 hours after I woke up I decided that I was not later (lol). Since I gradually get noticed about 10 hours later, I do not get any work done if I consider sleeping in a 24-hour cycle like an ordinary person. While doing a break, I will do it in about 20 hours on and on.

GIGAZINE:
It is difficult to have a regular life.

Yaga:
When I work for the first time in about a day and a half, my sleeping time shifts and I work again from there ... ... I am going out of line.

GIGAZINE:
I wonder if it is about 30 hours cycle.

Yaga:
It goes crazy as it goes in the second half, but (laugh)

GIGAZINE:
What kind of diet are you doing?

Yaga:
I am trying to eat dinner with my assistant. If everyone is supper when I get up, I will eat there together, others will eat properly in the room. I try to match your face as often as possible somewhere.

GIGAZINE:
What is the content of the meal?

Yaga:
It is a Japanese food that normally cooks rice, miso soup and side dishes.

GIGAZINE:
Are not you going to buy it outside?

Yaga:
If you bought it you will be very sick.

GIGAZINE:
How many people is the assistant?

Yaga:
I have been two people.

GIGAZINE:
So, the workplace is a familiar atmosphere.

Yaga:
Well, it feels like you're okay if you leave me alone. However, because it is slow to turn the work, I have quite a lot of time to wait. Even if you come on the first day, you do not have any work first.

GIGAZINE:
Is there anything you are careful about in your life?

Yaga:
Is it healthy in the day?

GIGAZINE:
It is difficult to maintain your health by living in a 30-hour cycle. There was a story saying that if I bought it before, I was losing my physical condition, but are you still concerned about meals?

Yaga:
It is OK for occasional eating, but when you eat junk food etc. your body has not been able to disassemble oil, all bad things will accumulate in the body. In particular, pus emergence in the leg which is not moving, it becomes impossible to move, so I think that it is as healthy as possible.

GIGAZINE:
Just by all work headed to the desk, the amount of exercise will decrease ... do not you think? Do you have any intention to increase any exercise?

Yaga:
Now I am just about finished with a long series, so I'm thinking to make it a work amount that I can afford to exercise (lol)

GIGAZINE:
By the way, when you signed the book earlier, you asked me to draw my own picture (rabbit), but do you like rabbits?

The rabbit always drawn as a self-portrait by Ms. Yaga at the bottom right of the signature.


Yaga:
No, I do not like being told if I like it (lol) I think that it is a remnant of what everyone drew as their own signs when turning memos when I was a student.

GIGAZINE:
I see ... It was a rabbit that was drawn as a different sign from other people at that time.

Yaga:
Also, depending on the magazine, there are self-portraits in the comments, but I do not even face it because my self-portrait was crowded, so why do not you make it a rabbit? When.

GIGAZINE:
Especially I do not have a rabbit, do you?

Yaga:
You do not keep it. It is a dog that keeps it, but I can not draw a dog.

GIGAZINE:
"Say hello to Blackjack"Sato HidefumiSays "It is hard for monthly income of 700,000 yen", "It is not possible to collect the money it took if the comic is not released", but is this something true?

Yaga:
When I heard the news I thought that there was a point. I think that the method is different depending on the company and the magazine, but even for me, the manuscript fee goes to the assistant and the conclusion that it is tough unless I issue a book is the same. However, there are differences such as the maternity of readers, and I think that "we are out of home".

GIGAZINE:
"Chigo and the red heart of the lost child" The luxury version is drawn in all colors. Some manga artists do not like coloring, so it seems that some people are not good at color pages, but is Mr. Yaga a good customer?

Yaga:
I'm good ... ... yeah, I am not good at it.

GIGAZINE:
Some people have heard stories that tension drops when it comes to color pages.

Yaga:
There is such a story. Since this work was originally "in an all color", it was something I could not do with ordinary manga, so I enjoyed my work.

GIGAZINE:
Did not you worry about what color should I do?

Yaga:
There was a thing that it took so long that it took a long time to say what color to do with an all color. Although the manga artist often struggles with it is an illustration of a cover or a beginning of a book, but if everything is a color like this time, even if it is established as a comic, it is not good if the balance of the whole is scattered, It was hard work around that.

GIGAZINE:
I see.

All-color works that must be balanced as a whole as well as one frame.


In this image, because the color is reduced for WEB, the real thing is more vivid.



Yaga:
First from a French companyBand · DessineTalk with me. The French manga culture is about being read by Japanese Weekly Shonen Manga, but among them Band · Dessine has a long history, the coma is like a square, as it pasted the film, chasing all the movements Since it has to go, there was a different struggle from the ordinary color page. If it is American-style tone, I can draw more illustration, but I can not do that either way.

GIGAZINE:
Indeed, it is a unique form like a manga-like film book.

Yaga:
Introduction Since it entered from such a project, I am drawing it with consciousness.

◆ To those who aim for manga artists
GIGAZINE:
First of all, I am surprised to hear that "I was not actually a manga artist," but I'd be surprised if you could give me advice for someone who is trying to become a manga artist.

Yaga:
Those who think "I want to be a manga artist from the beginning" and want to become a cartoonist, I want them to take care as their feelings that people who became manga artists like me can not be obtained. On the contrary, I think some people become manga artists as I liked a part of manga like me. Those people are going to build up their studies from there, but let's do their best as they manage somehow, (laugh) Can I have fun learning? I guess.

GIGAZINE:
Even if you do not draw barbari and manga from childhood, are you OK?

Yaga:
No, but it still does not make sense to the former people (lol) Someone who thinks she likes korei has an image that seems to be able to draw with intuition and nature. Actually, it seems I will get angry that I can not say such a thing (laugh)

GIGAZINE:
I think that the person who is worried whether to become a manga artist could have confidence that "It is not too late from now." Thank you for today.

To Professor Yaga "Chigo and the red heart of the lost childI got an autograph & message to him. Since it is one of the prizes of the next gift article, please also look forward to the gift article. By the way, Professor Yaga has never done an autograph session so this time it is the first time that a signed limited book entered as the first limited edition of "Chigo" was published.


"Chigo and the red heart of Chiko" is a fantasy adventure fascinated by adventurers of heterogeneous children like Cats, Chigo and fleas. Characters like Disney and Pixar movies are comics like picture books adventuring a pretty world like a toy box. The luxury version of the all color B6 size is 4,200 yen including tax, the normal version of monochrome A5 size is 1575 yen, and it is on sale on sale from TO Books.

The cover page of the luxury version is like this.


This is the regular version cover.


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