A manga artist , also known as a mangaka ( Japanese : 漫画家 ), is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga . As of 2013, about 4,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan, plus thousands of part timers and wannabes.
75-570: Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the industry as a primary creator. More rarely a manga artist breaks into the industry directly, without previously being an assistant. For example, Naoko Takeuchi , author of Sailor Moon , won a Kodansha Manga Award contest and manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka was first published while studying an unrelated degree, without working as an assistant. A manga artist will rise to prominence through recognition of their ability when they spark
150-503: A bubble or just floating above the character's head as a modified 'cloudy' thought bubble, depicts anger, not always verbally expressed. Light bulbs are sometimes used when the character thinks of an idea or solution to a problem. In the Western world, it is common to replace profanity with a string of nonsense symbols (&%$ @*$ #), sometimes termed grawlixes . In comics that are usually addressed to children or teenagers, bad language
225-562: A character in their Josie and the Pussycats comic, has musical notes drawn into her word balloons at all times, to convey that she speaks in a sing-song voice. The above-mentioned Albert Uderzo in the Asterix series decorates speech bubbles with beautiful flowers depicting an extremely soft, sweet voice (usually preceding a violent outburst by the same character). A stormy cloud with a rough lightning shape sticking out of it, either in
300-433: A character is gagged or otherwise unable to speak. Another, less conventional thought bubble has emerged: the "fuzzy" thought bubble. Used in manga (by such artists as Ken Akamatsu ), the fuzzy bubble is roughly circular in shape (generally), but the edge of the bubble is not a line but a collection of spikes close to each other, creating the impression of fuzziness. Fuzzy thought bubbles do not use tails, and are placed near
375-455: A different language which Asterix may not understand; Goths speak in blackletter , Greeks in angular lettering (though always understood by the Gaulish main characters, so it is more of an accent than a language), Norse with "Nørdic åccents", Egyptians in faux hieroglyphs (depictive illustrations and rebuses), etc. Another experiment with speech bubbles was exclusive to one book, Asterix and
450-638: A font that is exclusive to them. For examples, the main character, the gloomy Dream , speaks in wavy-edged bubbles, completely black, with similarly wavy white lettering. His sister, the scatterbrained and whimsical Delirium speaks in bubbles in a many-colored explosive background with uneven lettering, and the irreverent raven Matthew speaks in a shaky angular kind of bubble with scratchy lettering. Other characters, such as John Dee, have special shapes of bubbles for their own. For Mad magazine's recurring comic strip Monroe , certain words are written larger or in unusual fonts for emphasis. In manga , there
525-499: A manga artist. Nowadays there are many self-published manga artists on the internet posting their work on websites. It is possible for these manga artists' works to be officially picked up by a publishing company, such as Shueisha . For example, One-Punch Man started off as a webcomic before Shueisha began publishing a manga remake on Tonari No Young Jump. While Japan does have a thriving independent comic market for amateur and semi-professional artists, creating manga professionally
600-518: A manga artist. Takeuchi's father encouraged her to pursue other career paths, in case she wouldn't find success as a professional artist, which is why she attended university to study chemistry. Takeuchi graduated from the Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy , where she received a degree in chemistry and became a licensed pharmacist . Her senior thesis was called "Heightened Effects of Thrombolytic Actions Due to Ultrasound". After graduating from
675-434: A meeting arranged between them by voice actress Megumi Ogata . She collaborated with Togashi as an assistant (doing screentone ) and as a manager on volume 1 of Hunter × Hunter . However, the work and the demands proved more than she had expected, and as a result, Takeuchi left Shueisha. Around this time, Takeuchi conceived the idea for a one-shot called Toki☆Meka , which eventually turned into Toki☆Meca . Togashi had
750-562: A similar idea at the same time as her, but never fully brought it to fruition. He helped somewhat with Toki☆Meka at this point in developing the idea by drawing some concept sketches, which Takeuchi showed in Toki☆Meca volume 1. Togashi and Takeuchi married in 1999. From this marriage, the couple have two children: a son, born in January 2001, and a daughter, born in 2009. After Kodansha's rights to Sailor Moon expired, Takeuchi returned to
825-493: A sound effect for "deafening silence", shiin ( シーン ) . In many comic books, words that would be foreign to the narration but are displayed in translation for the reader are surrounded by brackets or chevrons ⟨like this⟩ . Gilbert Hernandez 's series about Palomar is written in English, but supposed to take place mainly in a Hispanic country. Thus, what is supposed to be representations of Spanish speech
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#1732779695863900-647: A speech bubble with this letter standing all alone means the character is sleeping in most humorous comics. This can be seen, for instance, in Charles Schulz 's Peanuts comic strips. The resemblance between the 'z' sound and that of a snore is a frequent feature in other countries. However, in Japanese manga the common symbol for sleep is a large bubble of snot coming out of a character's nose. Singing characters usually have musical notes drawn into their word balloons. Archie Comics ' Melody Valentine ,
975-457: A stunned silence or when a sarcastic comment is expected by the reader. The ellipsis, along with the big drop of sweat on the character's temple – usually depicting shame, confusion, or embarrassment caused by other people's actions – is one of the Japanese graphic symbols that have become used by other comics around the world, although they are still rare in Western tradition. Japanese even has
1050-495: A tail; this usage, equivalent to voice-over for movies, is not uncommon in American comics for dramatic contrast. In contrast to captions, the corners of such balloons never coincide with those of the panel; for further distinction, they often have a double outline, a different background color, or quotation marks . Thought bubbles are used in two forms, the chain thought bubble and the "fuzzy" bubble. The chain thought bubble
1125-462: A thought bubble proved puzzling to Iraqi soldiers: according to one PSYOP specialist this was because the technique was not known in Iraq, and readers "had no idea why Saddam's head was floating in the air." The most common is the speech bubble. It is used in two forms for two circumstances: an in-panel character and an off-panel character. An in-panel character (one who is fully or mostly visible in
1200-492: A writer creating a story which is then handed over to a manga artist for drawing. The Japanese term for such a writer of comics is gensakusha ( 原作者 ) . In 2009, 5,300 mangaka were honored with a title published in bound volume in Japan. In a 2010 message Japan Cartoonists Association chairman, Takashi Yanase says: "[w]hile Japan is often said to be world's cartoon kingdom, not a few people will surely be wondering what exactly
1275-513: A writer, as any conversation must fit within the physical constraints imposed by the art. Takeshi Obata of Death Note , Tetsuo Hara of Fist of the North Star , and Ryoichi Ikegami of Sanctuary are all successful manga artists who have worked with writers through the majority of their careers. Most manga artists have assistants who help them complete their work in a clean and timely manner. The duties of assistants vary widely, as
1350-586: A younger brother, Shingo. She gave the names of her relatives to the characters she created for Sailor Moon , and mentions this in interviews and in several comic strips she produced, in place of author notes. Takeuchi attended Kofu Ichi High School, where she wore a sailor uniform and joined the astronomy and manga clubs. These experiences influenced her work for Sailor Moon , in addition to her other pieces, such as Love Call and Rain Kiss . Her formative high school experiences influenced her trajectory to become
1425-514: Is Alan Moore and David Lloyd 's V for Vendetta , wherein during one chapter, a monologue expressed in captions serves not only to express the thoughts of a character but also the mood, status and actions of three others. The shape of a speech balloon can be used to convey further information. Common ones include the following: Captions are generally used for narration purposes, such as showing location and time, or conveying editorial commentary. They are generally rectangular and positioned near
1500-473: Is censored by replacing it with more or less elaborate drawings and expressionistic symbols. For example, instead of calling someone a swine, a pig is drawn in the speech bubble. One example is the Spanish Mortadelo series, created by Francisco Ibáñez . Although not specifically addressed to children, Mortadelo was initiated during Francisco Franco 's dictatorship , when censorship
1575-461: Is a Japanese manga artist . She is best known as the author of Sailor Moon , one of the most popular manga series of all time. She has won several awards, including the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award for Sailor Moon . Takeuchi is married to Yoshihiro Togashi , the author of YuYu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter . Takeuchi was born in Kofu , Yamanashi , Japan to Kenji and Ikuko Takeuchi. She has
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#17327796958631650-402: Is a standard speech bubble with a tail pointing toward the speaker's position (sometimes seen with a symbol at the end to represent specific characters). The second option, which originated in manga , has the tail pointing into the bubble, instead of out. (This tail is still pointing towards the speaker.) The third option replaces the tail with a sort of bottleneck that connects with the side of
1725-469: Is a tendency to include the speech necessary for the storyline in balloons, while small scribbles outside the balloons add side comments, often used for irony or to show that they are said in a much smaller voice. Satsuki Yotsuba in the manga series Negima is notable because she speaks almost entirely in side scribble. Speech bubbles are used not only to include a character's words, but also emotions, voice inflections and unspecified language. One of
1800-452: Is considered exceptional. Assistants are commonly used for inking , lettering , and shading , though the predominance of black and white art in manga means that unlike in the western comic industry, a studio rarely employs a colorist . Some manga artists only do the sketchwork for their art, and have their numerous assistants fill in all of the details, but it is more common for assistants to deal with background and cameo art, leaving
1875-696: Is often made between the balloon that indicates speech and the one that indicates thoughts; the balloon that conveys thoughts is often referred to as a thought bubble or conversation cloud . One of the earliest antecedents to the modern speech bubble were the " speech scrolls ", wispy lines that connected first-person speech to the mouths of the speakers in Mesoamerican art between 600 and 900 AD. Earlier, paintings, depicting stories in subsequent frames, using descriptive text resembling bubbles-text, were used in murals, one such example written in Greek , dating to
1950-455: Is rarely a solo effort. Manga artists must work with an assortment of others to get their work completed, published, and into the hands of readers. Most professionally published manga artists work with an editor, who is considered the boss of the manga artist and supervises series production. The editor gives advice on the layout and art of the manga, vets the story direction and pace, ensures that deadlines are met, and generally makes sure that
2025-422: Is the almost universal symbol for thinking in cartoons. It consists of a large, cloud -like bubble containing the text of the thought, with a chain of increasingly smaller circular bubbles leading to the character. Some artists use an elliptical bubble instead of a cloud-shaped one. Often, non-human characters such as Snoopy and Garfield "talk" using thought bubbles. They may also be used in circumstances when
2100-420: Is the traditional direction; and horizontal, as most other languages), manga has a convention of representing translated foreign speech as horizontal text. It is a convention for American comics that the sound of a snore is represented as a series of Z's, dating back at least to Rudolph Dirks ' early 20th-century strip The Katzenjammer Kids . This practice has even been reduced to a single letter Z, so that
2175-448: Is to letter with computer programs. The fonts used usually emulate the style of hand-lettering. Traditionally, most mainstream comic books are lettered entirely in upper-case , with a few exceptions: When hand-lettering, upper-case lettering saves time and effort because it requires drawing only three guidelines, while mixed-case lettering requires five. For a few comics, uppercase and lowercase are used as in ordinary writing. Since
2250-513: Is written without brackets, but occasional actual English speech is written within brackets, to indicate that it is unintelligible to the main Hispanophone characters in the series. Some comics will have the actual foreign language in the speech balloon, with the translation as a footnote; this is done with Latin aphorisms in Asterix . In the webcomic Stand Still, Stay Silent , in which characters may speak up to five different languages in
2325-952: The 2nd century , found in Capitolias , today in Jordan . In Western graphic art, labels that reveal what a pictured figure is saying have appeared since at least the 13th century. These were in common European use by the early 16th century. Word balloons (also known as " banderoles ") began appearing in 18th-century printed broadsides, and political cartoons from the American Revolution (including some published by Benjamin Franklin ) often used them—as did cartoonist James Gillray in Britain. They later became disused, but by 1904 had regained their popularity, although they were still considered novel enough to require explanation. With
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2400-576: The Infinity arc of the manga (known as Death Busters in Japan), and aired weekly on Japanese television from April to June 2016. In 2020, the two volumes of official "All Colored Eternal Edition" ( オールカラー完全版 , Ōrukarā Kanzenban ) of the Sailor Moon manga was released on June 29, with Takeuchi providing new illustrations for both covers. In 2021, Takeuchi chief supervised the production of
2475-597: The Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy , at the age of 19, Takeuchi entered the manga industry by submitting her work Love Call to Kodansha ; Takeuchi received Nakayoshi's New Artist award for Love Call . She worked steadily on one-shot pieces until writing Maria , which was published in Nakayoshi from early to mid-1990. This work, Takeuchi's first serial comic, was loosely based on Jean Webster 's 1912 novel Daddy-Long-Legs and on her friend Marie Koizumi , who helped write it. After completing Maria , Takeuchi worked on
2550-455: The 9th, and the second film on the 30th. Takeuchi wrote the lyrics for a number of songs featured in the Sailor Moon anime and live-action series. Though mainly character-based image songs , they include a few theme songs . These include: Takeuchi has won several awards, including the 2nd Nakayoshi Comic Prize for Newcomers for Yume ja Nai no Ne in 1985. She also won for "Love Call", which won Nakayoshi's New Artist award which debuted in
2625-463: The Belgian artist Hergé 's The Adventures of Tintin series being a good example. Sometimes, the punctuation marks stand alone above the character's head, with no bubble needed. In manga , the ellipsis (i.e. three dots) is also used to express silence in a much more significant way than the mere absence of bubbles. This is specially seen when a character is supposed to say something, to indicate
2700-445: The Japanese mean by the term ' cartoon '. Unfortunately, there is no hard-and-fast definition that can be offered, since the members of this association lay claim to an extensive variety of works." Traditionally in order to become a manga artist, one would need to send their work into a competition held by various publishing companies. If they won their work would be published and they would be assigned an editor and officially "debut" as
2775-531: The Nakayoshi Deluxe September 1986 issue. In 1993 she won the 17th Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Sailor Moon . Speech balloon Speech balloons (also speech bubbles , dialogue balloons , or word balloons ) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books , comics , and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing a character's speech or thoughts. A formal distinction
2850-507: The Roman Agent . The agent in question is a vile manipulator who creates discord in a group of people with a single innocent-sounding comment. His victims start quarreling and ultimately fighting each other while speaking in green-colored speech bubbles. Font variation is a common tactic in comics. The Sandman series, written by Neil Gaiman and lettered by Todd Klein , features many characters whose speech bubbles are written with
2925-481: The United States at San Diego Comic-Con for three days. That same year, she published the first Sailor Moon artbook since her departure from Kodansha, Sailor Moon Infinity Collection Art Book with limited releases. While working on her short comic strip Princess Naoko Takeuchi Back-to-Work Punch!! , Takeuchi met Yoshihiro Togashi at a Weekly Shōnen Jump meeting hosted by Kazushi Hagiwara , and had
3000-487: The anime industry. This culminated in the creation of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon . The series displays a plot that is heavily reliant on the manga and also explores many themes that the manga was unable to explore. She showed up at the official conference with a fist up, meaning "good luck", in Act Zero. After the production of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon ended in 2004, Takeuchi continued to work on Toki☆Meca . During
3075-548: The bubbles are read from left to right in a panel, while in Japanese , it is the other way around. Sometimes the bubbles are "stacked", with two characters having multiple bubbles, one above the other. Such stacks are read from the top down. Traditionally, a cartoonist or occupational letterer would draw in all the individual letters in the balloons and sound effects by hand. A modern alternative, used by most comics presently and universal in English-translated manga,
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3150-432: The character who is thinking. Thought bubbles are sometimes seen as an inefficient method of expressing thought because they are attached directly to the head of the thinker, unlike methods such as caption boxes, which can be used both as an expression of thought and narration while existing in an entirely different panel from the character thinking. However, they are restricted to the current viewpoint character. An example
3225-472: The comics. Fesser claimed: "When you see a bubble speech containing a lightning falling on a pig, what do you imagine the character's saying?" In order for comic strip and graphic novel dialogue to make sense, it has to be read in order. Thus, conventions have evolved in the order in which the communication bubbles are read. The individual bubbles are read in the order of the language. For example, in English ,
3300-571: The credits for such anime as Level E and Hunter × Hunter . Its name also appears on the musical credits for Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu and other projects. Following the loss of seven pages of Takeuchi's PQ Angels manuscript, Osano departed Kodansha and the plans for the Materials Collection were canceled. Takeuchi departed Kodansha for Shueisha . On August 13, 1998, Takeuchi made her first appearance in
3375-412: The designs for anime adaptations, and similar products, though this duty may also fall to the manga artist or an agent. An example of a manga artist and their editor is Akira Toriyama and Kazuhiko Torishima . A manga artist may both write and illustrate a series of their own creation, or may work together with an author. The manga artist typically has a strong influence on dialog even when paired with
3450-489: The development of the comics industry during the 20th century, the appearance of speech balloons has become increasingly standardized, though the formal conventions that have evolved in different cultures (USA as opposed to Japan, for example) can be quite distinct. In the UK in 1825 The Glasgow Looking Glass , regarded as the world's first comics magazine , was created by English satirical cartoonist William Heath . Containing
3525-568: The early Tarzan comic strip during the 1930s. In Europe, where text comics were more common, the adoption of speech balloons was slower, with well-known examples being Alain Saint-Ogan 's Zig et Puce (1925), Hergé 's The Adventures of Tintin (1929), and Rob-Vel 's Spirou (1938). Speech balloons are not necessarily popular or well-known in all parts of the world. During the Gulf War , an American propaganda leaflet that used
3600-521: The edge of the panel. Often they are also colored to indicate the difference between themselves and the word balloons used by the characters, which are almost always white. Increasingly in modern comics, captions are frequently used to convey an internal monologue or typical speech. Some characters and strips use unconventional methods of communication. Perhaps the most notable is the Yellow Kid , an early American comic strip character. His (but not
3675-850: The ice-skating series The Cherry Project , which was serialized in Nakayoshi from late 1990 to 1991. While working on The Cherry Project , Takeuchi wanted to do a manga on outer space and girl fighters. Her editor, Fumio Osano, asked her to put the fighters in sailor suits. This concept would later become a one-shot called Codename: Sailor V , which would later begin serialization in RunRun . When Toei Animation planned to adapt her manga into an anime series, she reworked Sailor V and added four other superheroines. In December 1991, Nakayoshi began serializing Sailor Moon , which became an instant hit. The success encouraged Takeuchi to work on both Sailor Moon and Sailor V from 1991 to 1997. However, RunRun
3750-418: The interest of institutions, individuals or a demographic of manga consumers. For example, there are contests which prospective manga artist may enter, sponsored by manga editors and publishers. This can also be accomplished through producing a one-shot . While sometimes a stand-alone manga, with enough positive reception it can be serialized in a weekly, monthly, or quarterly format. They are also recognized for
3825-479: The lettering is entirely in capital letters, serif versions of "I" are used exclusively where a capital I would appear in normal print text, and a sans-serif (i.e., a simple vertical line) is used in all other places. This reduces confusion with the number one, and also serves to indicate when the personal pronoun "I" is meant. This lettering convention can be seen in computer fonts designed for comic book lettering, which use OpenType contextual alternates to replace
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#17327796958633900-538: The manga artist to focus on drawing and inking the characters. Assistants may also be employed to perform specialized artistic tasks. Go Nagai , for instance, at one time employed a specialist to draw helicopters and other military vehicles, Kaoru Mori employed a historical consultant for Emma , and series that incorporates photorealistic architecture , animals, computer-rendered imagery , or other technically demanding effects may employ or contract separate artists trained in those techniques. Assistants almost never help
3975-585: The manga artist with the plot of their manga, beyond being a sounding board for ideas. A manga artist's assistants might be listed in the credits for a manga tankōbon , and short interviews with or illustrations by assistant artists are a common form of bonus material in these collections, but they typically do not receive individual credits. Most manga artists started out as assistants, such as Miwa Ueda to Naoko Takeuchi, Leiji Matsumoto to Osamu Tezuka, Kaoru Shintani to Leiji Matsumoto, and Eiichiro Oda , Hiroyuki Takei and Mikio Itō to Nobuhiro Watsuki , who
4050-424: The manga stays up to company standards. Naoki Urasawa compared the relationship between a manga artist and their editor to that of the one between a music producer and a recording artist, specifically citing George Martin 's relationship with The Beatles . The editor may also function as a brand manager and publicist for a series. When a manga is the basis for a media franchise , the editor may also supervise
4125-402: The manga's serialization, Osano returned as her editor. Takeuchi also worked more closely with managing PNP and gave talks to college students. At the same time, she wrote a children's book titled Oboo-nu- to Chiboo-nu- as a birthday present to her son. (Togashi provided illustrations for the book; Takeuchi made mention of this in the back of the first volume of Toki☆Meca .) She still works on
4200-538: The mid-1980s, mixed case lettering has gradually become more widely used in mainstream comic books. Some comics, such as Pearls Before Swine , also use lowercase speech to mark a distinctive accent (in this case, the male crocodiles' accented speech, opposed to all other characters who use standard uppercase speech). From 2002 to 2004, Marvel Comics experimented with mixed-case lettering for all its comic books. Most mainstream titles have since returned to traditional all upper-case lettering. For many comics, although
4275-588: The name of "Sumire Shirobara". In 2022, Takeuchi chief supervised the production of the sequel to Sailor Moon Eternal , titled Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos The Movie . The two-part film covered the Stars arc of the manga (known as Shadow Galactica in Japan), and acted as a "fifth and final season" for the Sailor Moon Crystal series. Both films were released in June 2023, with the first film on
4350-433: The number of manga they run at any given moment. The original Japanese word can be broken down into two parts: manga ( 漫画 ) and ka ( 家 ) . The manga corresponds to the medium of art the artist uses: comics , or Japanese comics, depending on how the term is used inside or outside Japan . The - ka (家) suffix implies a degree of expertise and traditional authorship. For example, this term would not be applied to
4425-479: The other characters') words would appear on his large, smock-like shirt. Shirt Tales , a short-run American animated TV series of the early 1980s used this same concept, but with changing phrases on the "T-shirts" worn by the animal-based characters, depending on the characters' thoughts. Also noteworthy are the many variations of the form created by Dave Sim for his comic Cerebus the Aardvark . Depending on
4500-624: The panel of the strip of comic that the reader is viewing) uses a bubble with a pointer, termed a tail, directed towards the speaker. When one character has multiple balloons within a panel, often only the balloon nearest to the speaker's head has a tail, and the others are connected to it in sequence by narrow bands. This style is often used in Mad Magazine , due to its " call-and-response " dialogue-based humor. An off-panel character (the comic book equivalent of being "off screen") has several options, some of them rather unconventional. The first
4575-401: The panel. It can be seen in the works of Marjane Satrapi (author of Persepolis ). In comics, a bubble without a tail means that the speaker is not merely outside the reader's field of view, but also invisible to the viewpoint character , often as an unspecified member of a crowd. Characters distant (in space or time) from the scene of the panel can still speak, in squared bubbles without
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#17327796958634650-443: The publisher in 1999 to develop and publish the Materials Collection . She also began serializing Love Witch , but it was cancelled. Takeuchi started to work on the reprints of Sailor Moon and Sailor V , and published Toki☆Meca in Nakayoshi . In 2003, Takeuchi became heavily involved in producing Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon , a tokusatsu television series based on Sailor Moon , as she had an interest in learning more about
4725-410: The same scene, most dialogue is unmarked (languages mostly being inferred by who is speaking and to whom), but miniature flags indicate the language being spoken where this is relevant. Another convention is to put the foreign speech in a distinctive lettering style; for example, Asterix 's Goths speak in blackletter . Since the Japanese language uses two writing directionalities (vertical, which
4800-534: The series' end, Takeuchi worked on PQ Angels for Nakayoshi . This gained a fair amount of popularity, but was canceled due to Kodansha losing seven pages of her manuscript. Takeuchi said that Toei Animation had the manuscript, therefore it would have been possible to create an anime adaptation of the series. Takeuchi's own studio is called "Princess Naoko Planning" (PNP). Takeuchi established PNP to manage her properties, mainly Sailor Moon . The studio later encompassed Yoshihiro Togashi 's work as well and appeared in
4875-453: The shape, size, and position of the bubble, as well as the texture and shape of the letters within it, Sim could convey large amounts of information about the speaker. This included separate bubbles for different states of mind (drunkenness, etc.), for echoes, and a special class of bubbles for one single floating apparition. An early pioneer in experimenting with many different types of speech balloons and lettering for different types of speech
4950-472: The term incorporates all people working for a manga artist's art studio , but is most commonly used to refer to secondary artists. The number of assistant artists also varies widely between manga artists, but is typically at least three. Other manga artists instead form work groups known as "circles" but do not use additional assistants, such as the creative team CLAMP . A few manga artists have no assistants at all, and prefer to do everything themselves, but this
5025-520: The two-part anime film, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie , which adapted the Dream arc of the manga (known as Dead Moon in Japan), and acted as a "fourth season" for the Sailor Moon Crystal series. Both films were released in 2021 in Japanese theaters, with the first film on January 8, and the second film on February 11. Takeuchi also provided the lyrics for the theme song, " Moon Color Chainon " ( 月色Chainon , Tsukiiro Chainon ) , under
5100-482: The universal emblems of the art of comics is the use of a single punctuation mark to depict a character's emotions, much more efficiently than any possible sentence. A speech bubble with a single big question mark (?) (often drawn by hand, not counted as part of the lettering) denotes confusion or ignorance. An exclamation mark (!) indicates surprise or terror. This device is used much in the European comic tradition,
5175-470: The website, updating it about once a month with new flash animations or profiles. In 2012, it was announced that a new Sailor Moon anime adaptation was in development. With it, Takeuchi started a Kanzenban version of the manga, which was announced by Osano, and will include fixed past mistakes and new covers for the manga. Color pages are also included for the title pages. There was also an artbook announced, and she has been working on merchandise, which
5250-534: The world's first comic strip, it also made it the first to use speech bubbles. Richard F. Outcault 's Yellow Kid is generally credited as the first American comic strip character. His words initially appeared on his yellow shirt, but word balloons very much like those used presently were added almost immediately, as early as 1896. By the start of the 20th century, word balloons were ubiquitous; since that time, few American comic strips and comic books have relied on captions, notably Hal Foster 's Prince Valiant and
5325-531: Was Walt Kelly , for his Pogo strip. Deacon Mushrat speaks with blackletter words, P.T. Bridgeport speaks in circus posters, Sarcophagus MacAbre speaks in condolence cards, "Mr. Pig" (a take on Nikita Khrushchev ) speaks in faux Cyrillic , etc. In the famous French comic series Asterix , Goscinny and Uderzo use bubbles without tails to indicate a distant or unseen speaker. They have also experimented with using different types of lettering for characters of different nationalities to indicate that they speak
5400-672: Was announced by Osano on his Twitter feed. The new reboot anime, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal , debuted in July 2014. It streamed on Niconico bi-weekly, and ended in July 2015, spanning a total of 26 episodes, which cover the Dark Kingdom and Black Moon arc of the manga. Takeuchi wrote the ending theme song, "Moonbow" ( 月虹 , Gekkō ) , under her penname , "Sumire Shirobara" ( 白薔薇sumire , Shirobara Sumire ) . The series eventually gained its 13-episode third season, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal Season III , covering
5475-476: Was canceled with the November 1997 issue, and the planned Sailor V anime adaptation was canceled along with it. During that six-year period, she produced 60 chapters, which were collected in 18 volumes. The success of the manga led to a 200-episode anime adaptation , three animated films, numerous video games, and wide-ranging merchandising. She had an interview with Silent Möbius creator, Kia Asamiya. At
5550-412: Was common and rough language was prohibited. When Ibáñez's characters are angry, donkey heads, lightning, lavatories, billy goats and even faux Japanese characters are often seen in their bubbles. When Mortadelo was portrayed in a movie by Spanish director Javier Fesser in 2003, one of the critiques made to his otherwise successful adaptation was the character's use of words that never appeared in
5625-463: Was himself an assistant to Takeshi Obata . It is also possible for an assistant to have an entire career as such without becoming an independent manga artist. Assistants, particularly specialists, may work with several different manga artists at the same time, and many assistants also self-publish works of their own in the dōjinshi scene. Naoko Takeuchi Naoko Takeuchi ( Japanese : 武内 直子 , Hepburn : Takeuchi Naoko , born March 15, 1967)
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