Topics

1

Manga Talk / Feelings on new Shonen Jump series?

« on: September 10, 2020, 03:14:43 PM »

With the SJ app now allowing for simultaneous release and finally getting access to the new series that only live for 15 chapters and never got translated in the past, I'm trying to keep up with all the ongoing and new series that are launched. Curious if anyone else is doing similar or wants to talk about some of these new stories and initial impressions. I find this especially fun because usually a series won't get talked about much until it starts to pick up steam and a subreddit and all that.

Currently, Shonen Jump has these listed as the new-ish series:

• Kaiju No 8
• Undead Unluck
• Ghost Reaper Girl
• Spy x Family
• Phantom Seer
• Me & Roboco
• Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin
• Mashle
• Magu-Chan: God of Destruction
• Moriking
• High School Family
• Burn the Witch
• Time Paradox Ghost Writer (ended)
• Bone Collection (ended)
• Guardian of the Witch (ended)

2

Manga Writers wanted / Free(lance) Writer Available

« on: July 11, 2018, 09:42:11 AM »

Hey everyone!

I'm around to do some writing collaboration and be a writer for manga. I generally don't write for monetary gain, typically just to share so I don't have any payment requirements or anything like that. If you want to throw money at me that's your choice, but I'm not asking.

You can check all my writing on Wattpad, as I am nick. Just nick. That's the whole username. Pretty knowledgeable and flexible in all genres too so I don't mind creating anything. Send me a message if you want to talk ideas and such.

3

Manga Talk / Opinion on manga translations

« on: December 24, 2017, 02:11:01 PM »

Hey all!

I'm trying to gather some opinions around manga and how much it gets translated. I have issues around the general lack of officially translated manga and how much (or how little) Japan pays attention to the poor non-Japanese market and our struggles. Or at least mine. Maybe other people disagree so I want to see how everyone feels.

And so I made this fun quick survey. It would be awesome if you could help me with opinions to see if I can maybe do something about it. Need to figure out how I tackle Japan but that's stage two. I know of the no link rule, it's just a poll about manga, doesn't go to any manga sites or anything. Easier than making a poll in here. (Lemme know if you want it gone mods)

https://nickuskoski.typeform.com/to/ts9wdp

Otherwise down to hear opinions here too.

4

Welcome Center / Hey everyone!

« on: November 08, 2017, 10:48:14 PM »

Hello all!

New to mangaraider.

I'm Nick from up in Canada. I've been a writer for a looong time now, and for a long time focused on creating light novels/text manga (as I cannot draw, wah wah). To this day it still heavily influences my novel writing and I always have tons of ideas for manga bouncing around, the issue always being that I can never draw.

However, a lot of my writing took off when I joined Wattpad to share it many years ago (and now it's my job, woohoo). I have tried to find a community there for a long time, but inexplicably only recently came to the conclusion I should just look for a specific, manga community online, just like Wattpad is a story community, which brought me here (thanks google). While I have dreams of collaborating with someone to finally create a manga, I know in my heart I would most likely want to share it online with a vibrant community, much like writing, and equally know not every artist wants to pursue that path (with good reason, drawing is hella work). So while I keep that aspiration in the back of my mind and will always see if I can find a like-minded artist to collab on, I figure even if I never find them, I can still sit in here geeking out with everyone else and helping anyone with writing advice from my lengthy studying and experience in the field and expertise as part of my job.

Feel like the best manga for me is still Zetman. I have not found something better. Biorg Trinity but nobody translates it so I had to go to Japan just to get the volumes and have to learn Japanese to read them but perhaps someday I will actually read the rest of it and it can be my fave then. Has ridiculous artwork I can flip through in the meantime.