Anyone dreams of making Manga 4 a career?

@Mumbles Do yourself a favour and focus on one thing first. It will be easier to pan out your interests later when you're better off.

I know that already, right now I'm focused on my path to Animation. I have to put aside the comic/manga dream for now. Should have made things clear in the last post

@llustrationOfSacred_Ink: lol Thank you, I really appreciate that. There are so many things I want to do in life in the aspect of creating and artistry, but there really are too much to do in one lifetime, especially to turn them all into a career. I do hope to make a comic one day, even if it is just 5 to 20 pages, I'd be cool with that. A lot of the things I want to do overlap but you need to have a different type of thinking and focus on each thing. @Key: I agree. Being in a content-creating field or even being a skilled worker is unpredictable, inconsistent, and unstable. Especially if you are freelance, you need to be well disciplined and you won't have a much to do one day or too much another. I am even finding that my mom as a nurse, a job that is high is demand, is becoming unstable when they cut her hours from 36 hours a week to as little as 12 because they cancel a lot on her. My main focus is school and taking advantage of the projects I am given to someday be used in a portfolio and/or to submit to the school's and other galleries. I plan on going to grad school (I know, grad school for art, right?) so in order to get a good scholarship or even a free ride, I need to keep my portfolio in check. I have a little over a year till that happens and I should be applying later on this year. @Mumbling Artist: If you wanna do comics/manga (the only difference is manga is seen as black and white because when a chapter is published, it is published with 17 other chapters from a different series together in a big magazine so it make it easier to print and sell for it to all be in gray scale. Comics are published individually in chapters and are usually just saddle stitched together), get into illustration and graphic design. Illustration because illustration focuses on figures and a bit on setting and graphic design because it helps with how to place panels together to read well, hierarchy, typography, lettering, etc. I am a fine art student but I also take graphic design classes because they are very useful when taking a graphic approach which is what comics usually do. But yeah, that's when you want to get into when it comes to comics What do you want to do in animation?

@Rina wow that was alot, and thanks for the information. Hmm I don't really know, I know I had a reason why before, just cant remember why

About time management, it depends on individual time management and how they want to achive the goals. Time is very important. Not only for This career also for any career. Even a student have to manage their own time very well. You dont have much time for*#/=;.no sleep....Bla...bla....blaaa..... Salary, its up to each company. Yup, yup...Comics, manga and manhwa have it own diff . Term language, illustration, style and ect. all these 3 are important for an animation. characters scripts storyboard storyline and blabla.. T.T this new generation, peoples love to watching more rather than reading, Free and Fast updated. Beep....beepp....bopbeepp.... ^_^ 　 X3

@Hyera Lol yep, totally agreed; I deal with it daily as a student! Just some people really aren't cut out but think being a mangaka is a glamorous job and you be famous and so on and so fourth. That was just my reminder to anyone that comes across this (not directing this to anyone in particular) and ever thought about entering a creative/content-making/skilled working field, I hope they know they will not be making much and it not glamourous. Though, I think anime and manga like Shirobako and The Comic Artists and His Assistants (maybe not too much; you won't have a harem of assistants) show as good references business when it comes to animation and comic books. Even Denki-gai does well when depicting a mangaka who wants to make her debut and shows her in tantrums and not washing herself for days and also has a full time job XD Some people don't wanna put in the work; that is all. Most of the students in the Art Department at my University procrastinate till the last second and believe they can never do freelance. It really does depend on the person, so I think one should know their abilities and work ethics really well.

I heard that Japanese universities are extremely hard to get into especially the entrance exam.I can relate with you guys to a certain extent cause my biggest dream was to be a storyteller and the #1 outlet I wanted to tell stories was through anime..but living in Japan for a few years wouldn't be too practical due to how high it is to live there.Also I could never have the brains to get in a college over there so that dream is just a dream I'll have to dream in my dreams.no pun intended

Actually, there are only a few 2-year community colleges that teach anime and manga as a degree/certificate. You just need to know Japanese, that is all. And you don't need to live and go to school in Japan to make anime.

I had no idea. I was thinking this whole time all this complicated Red tape I would have 2 cut through.^_^ Gives me something to think about.Thanks for the info Rina (:

I am looking more into it and there is also Kyoto Seika University: http://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/eng/edu/manga/comicart/ They off a 4-year degree and even a master's program for manga research. In order to be admitted though: It says you must "meet the Japanese language eligibility requirements" so yeah, learning Japanese is a must. http://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/eng/admission/undergraduate/international_1st/2014.php It says that tuition for 2014 was 1,750,000 JPY= 14,711.4450 USD by (today's rate) which is less than the School of Visual Arts (33,560 USD) It doesn't say what is required in a portfolio (if it is even nessarsy). And it doesn't describe what the entrance exam is. It most likely is a Japanese language exam. Though, it does reiterate only "a few" international students are accepted. But I still think you don't need to go to Japan.