You know, if I still do end up drawing anime as a manga-ka after all this, it certainly wouldn't be for any kind of money reward. There's just no money in American manga. AT ALL. It's questionable whether that will ever change. I don't set out to "draw anime" OR "manga" really. I appreciate it from an aesthetic viewpoint, I love Japanese culture for the most part, and I take influence from the anime and manga aesthetic, detailing, and pacing style, but aping the genre itself? Seems kind of like a hopeless thing to do, considering how much backlash companies like Tokyopop generated against said genre with things like the name "OEL Manga" and the neat little packing of the whole thing, almost like they were trying to get rich off of it before it even had a chance to make money for publishers to begin with. Bad move Tokyopop. REAL bad move. Priest movie and manga are and look pretty cool though.
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