Chainsaw Man’ is, undeniably, one of the most famous manga of recent times. Although from the outside it looks like a Japanese nonsense, the truth is that as soon as you start reading it you enter the world that its author, Tatsuki Fujimoto, offers and that has complex personalities, extreme situations, fun without complexes and the feeling that this is not just another manga. The problem is that you’re already tired of it.
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Chainsaw man’ lasted only two years after which Fujimoto was able to take a well-deserved rest (the life of mangakas is terrifying and is based on work and sleep), but now he has started with the second part of the misadventures of Denji and company. The problem is that talking to his editors at Shueisha, he has stated that he wouldn’t mind hanging up his pencils for good and simply focus on telling his story and having someone else draw it.
He gives as an example the author of ‘Oshi no ko’, Aka Akasaka (an incredible name, by the way) who after achieving success as a mangaka with his previous work has retired from drawing and is only dedicated to being a scriptwriter. “I think it’s more fun that way,” he says. Although he hasn’t thought about who to give it to or how to do it, the truth is that he hardly uses assistants because they cost a lot of money that he has to pay, as he showed in his manga ‘Look Back’.
In the end, Fujimoto has to deliver 20 pages every Tuesday to continue ‘Chainsaw Man’, which means about three a day. Scripting, drawing, inking and plotting: it may look easy from the outside if you’ve never drawn before, but it’s not. It’s a stressful job and one that causes a number of mental and physical problems, so if the body asks you to leave, the vast majority of fans agree.
He won’t be the first or the last manga to have different authors for script and drawing (‘Bakuman’, ‘Death note’) and there’s nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, there are plenty of up-and-coming mangakas who copy his style and could very well be in charge of delivering the pages every week while he goes about, well, living his life a little better. Which is no small thing.
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