{"id":1793,"date":"2022-11-11T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2022-12-05T08:46:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T23:46:36","slug":"manga-artist-ryo-azumi-interview-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/manga-artist-ryo-azumi-interview-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga Artist Ryo Azumi Interview (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Continuing our series of artist interviews, next we\u2019re talking to Ryo Azumi, a cartoonist who has illustrated five Waypoints manga so far, most recently this month\u2019s \u201c<\/a><\/span><\/i>A Desperate Woman<\/i><\/b><\/a>.\u201d<\/a> Today, in part one, she tells us a little about her background. (Note: this interview is translated from Japanese.)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

First of all, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I was born and raised in Shinjuku in Tokyo. I am a professional manga artist and also teach manga illustration at a vocational school. My hobby is traveling, but recently I can\u2019t enjoy it because of COVID, my health situation, and to save money. I\u2019m proud to say that I traveled alone as a woman to Arctic Norway and Iceland. Recently, since I don\u2019t go out much, I\u2019ve really gotten into Korean dramas.<\/span><\/p>\n

When did you first become interested in manga?<\/b><\/p>\n

I was an indoor girl, so I was always drawing as far back as I can remember. When I was little, I became interested in Disney picture books and then in the manga of Tezuka Osamu; before long I started buying girls manga magazines, quickly moving down the \u201cotaku\u201d [geek] road (though at that time the word \u201cotaku\u201d wasn\u2019t used).<\/span><\/p>\n

How did you get started as a professional artist?<\/b><\/p>\n

When I was a high school student, I started a manga study group and made self-published manga with my friends. I also tried submitting my work to publishers around that time. But those attempts didn\u2019t bear any fruit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After graduating high school, I studied in the anime [animation] department of a design vocational school for two years. There were no manga [comics] departments in those days. But I could learn the fundamentals of figure drawing, sketching and color theory there, so that was good.<\/span><\/p>\n

At that time, I belonged to Japan\u2019s biggest long-established manga study group called \u201cSakuga Group.\u201d I was encouraged by more experienced people in that group and, full of youthful impertinence, I drew tons and tons of manga; because of that I was able to make my debut, getting published in a magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Continuing our series of artist interviews, next we\u2019re talking to Ryo Azumi, a cartoonist who has illustrated five Waypoints manga so far, most recently this month\u2019s \u201cA Desperate Woman.\u201d Today, in part one, she tells us a little about her background. (Note: this interview is translated from Japanese.) First of all, can you tell us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}