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Renowned Manga Artist Makoto Raiku Speaks Out on the Role of NTV, Shogakukan, and the Individual Artist

Makoto Raiku: Manga artists are individuals and “NTV, Shogakukan, and organizations.”

2024-02-03 19:36 Makoto Raiku, a manga artist known for “Golden Gash!”, updated his X (formerly Twitter) on the 1st. He appealed to the weak position of manga artists.

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Raiku said, “When I open X, I keep seeing tweets about the Ashihara-sensei incident from manga artists and writers. It’s a frustrating and shocking event for manga artists and writers. It was a very frustrating event for me too ,” he wrote. “I myself have been writing and deleting tweets about the Dr. Ashihara incident, writing and deleting them again and again,” he said, adding, “As expected, there is not enough information about the incident, and I’m not sure how I feel about it.”The fact that it’s there is just speculation based on experience, and the job isn’t done. That’s the way it is.”

On the other hand, he added, “One thing I can say”: “Nippon TV and Shogakukan are both organizations, and manga artists are individuals. .”“When I was watching the news, I heard that there was an investigation into this incident. I want to wait for the results, and hope the results are true.”It was.

It was recently announced that Hinako Ashihara, the original writer of the Nippon Television drama series “Sexy Tanaka-san,” has died suddenly. Ashihara himself wrote the script for the last part of the play. In response to the response to this, on January 26, Ashihara told his own post a long post. The article states that he confirmed the facts with Shogakukan, and explained that, along with his own thoughts on the original work, he checked conditions such as “always be faithful to the manga” before producing the drama, but “the original conditions were not adhered to.”

At the end, he wrote, “Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to the wonderful cast and production staff who made this drama a wonderful work, and to the readers who loved the manga.” Sexy Tanaka-san” and drama and watch it. I would like to express my big thanks to everyone.”

On the 28th, he deleted the same post and wrote, “I didn’t mean to attack you. I’m sorry.” The blog that had posted the same content is no longer accessible. His death was announced on the 29th.

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