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The Producer Behind Ghibli: Toshio Suzuki, the Editor Hayao Miyazaki Once Refused to Talk To

He can’t draw, and he isn’t a director. Yet Studio Ghibli’s films began with him sitting next to Hayao Miyazaki for three days.
Inside the Industry

One Postcard Decides Whether a Manga Lives or Dies: Half a Century of Weekly Shonen Jump’s Reader Survey

Every week, Weekly Shonen Jump decides which manga keep running based on a single reader postcard. A survey that asks only “Which three were the most fun?” helped create Dragon Ball, and has made life hard for slow-burning stories.
Inside the Industry

How a Manga Magazine’s Prize Card Sold for 2.5 Billion Yen: The Collecting Economy Behind Pokémon Cards

In 1998, a Japanese children’s manga magazine gave a card to the winners of an illustration contest. Twenty-eight years later, one of those cards sold for 2.5 billion yen.
Inside the Industry

Manga Sells All Over the World. So Why Are Manga Artists Still Pulling All-Nighters? The Seven-Day Clock of Weekly Serialization

The creator of One Piece, a series that has sold more than 500 million copies worldwide, has to explain to readers that he isn’t sick before taking three weeks off. Manga artists don’t stay up all night because manga doesn’t make money. They do it because of a clock set…

The Producer Behind Ghibli: Toshio Suzuki, the Editor Hayao Miyazaki Once Refused to Talk To