{"id":1801,"date":"2022-11-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:03:20","slug":"manga-artist-ryo-azumi-interview-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/manga-artist-ryo-azumi-interview-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga Artist Ryo Azumi Interview (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Continuing our series of artist interviews, we bring your part two of our interview with Ryo Azumi, illustrator of this month\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/project\/a-desperate-woman\">\u201cA Desperate Woman,\u201d<\/a> among other Waypoints stories. Today, she tells us a little about her artistic influences and her experience as a Waypoints artist. (Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/manga-artist-ryo-azumi-interview-part-1\/\">here<\/a> to read part one if you missed it).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Who are some of your favorite artists, or biggest influences?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking back, one day when I was in my second year of junior high, I was really impacted by seeing \"The Poe Clan\" by Moto Hagio on display at a bookstore. The style was totally different from any of the girls manga I was familiar with at that time. If not for that encounter, I would have stopped reading manga around junior high, and would not have become a manga artist. I think it was the same with many others of my generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outside of manga, I love Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, and Henry Patrick Clarke, an Irish book illustrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What else inspires you artistically?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like historical themes, and since high school have been really into Scandinavian Viking history \u2014 the culture, mythology and history. I have worked on creating manga adaptations of the Old Testament, and feel like it is a magnificent historical drama about God and humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0What has your experience working on Waypoints been like?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I really enjoy getting to draw for Waypoints. I\u2019d already been thinking that it would be interesting to create manga that turns the spotlight on minor characters who only appear in a few lines, instead of the main characters in the Bible. So when I receive a script for Waypoints, I excitedly think, \u201cWho is it this time?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Who indeed\u2026?<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/manga\/\">HERE<\/a> to read more manga about these minor characters and their life-changing encounters.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_divider et_pb_divider_0 et_pb_divider_position_center et_pb_space\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_post_nav_0 et_pb_posts_nav nav-single et_block_module\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1799,"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-1801","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\/1801","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=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}