Winner of the Shonen Jump Manga Contest Only Used a Smartphone to Draw Manga

If you think that it’s impossible to draw manga in your own smartphone, think again!

Weekly Shonen Jump held the Kentaro Yabuki Manga Prize competition back in 2016 and one of they found out recently during a casual conversation of a business meeting that the winner So Atsumori created his manga titled Anata ga Koi to Iu no nara only with the use of a smartphone!

Yuta Momiyama, Atsumori’s editor at the Weekly Shonen Jump was very surprised and impressed after finding out about this. Much more when he found out that Atsumori did not use any special stylus or device to draw with the phone but only using fingers! The editor could not imagine himself making a chapter of a manga using a small device.

The first 28-page chapter of the Anata ga Koi to Iu no nara manga made its debut recently in the Shonen Jump Rookie website. The manga centers on the everyday encounters between girls and boys in school. This youth romantic comedy manga takes pride on its detailed background and facial expressions that are nearly impossible to be created in a simple smartphone.

Atsumori got into drawing manga since high school and made his first drafts in pen and paper then later in his cellphone when he found out from a friend that some people in the art club are using the ibisPaint app on their smartphones. He is so far the first manga artist to submit a manga drawn in a cellphone.

With this kind of revelation, it just proves that anybody can be an artist, anybody can learn, and you don’t need anything fancy to make the artwork that you want to finish. You can just use the things that you have at your disposal. Truly Atsumori is indeed an inspiration for those who dream to become full-pledged manga artists in the future.

Source: ITmedia News