I don't think they're going to find the help they're looking for. The Japanese model of taking a popular book and finding an artist who wants to adapt it is going to run into a harder cultural barrier over here. Basically... our artist community isn't willing to tolerate the crap that Japanese artists put up with from their producers.
Thats why the corpos want to dillute the pool even further since the community is tight knit in both camraderie and buisiness. And it certainly doesnt kadokawa sets horrible quotas when it comes to the industries. 'At least one isekai per season'
But in the last 10-15 years, an increasing number of the most successful titles have come from LNs. And this article is very specific on that point.
"there is a particular shortage in the sphere of comic adaptations of light novels"
They specifically want more artists, not more creators (writer-artists). And I'm saying they're likely to have an even harder time finding them OUTSIDE of Japan than they're already having finding them IN Japan.
Kadokawa’s overseas manga editorial team emphasize the necessity of broadening the talent pool of manga authors in Japan and overseas.
However,” Segawa remarks, “just joining the competition to secure talent won’t solve the fundamental issue of workforce shortage, as it doesn’t contribute to expanding the talent pool. Devising ways to discover and nurture popular authors is a crucial mission for our manga editors.” He notes that is the reason why Kadokawa decided to explore “the wide sea of overseas manga artists” and look for future talent there.
A mangaka is a Japanese term for a manga artist, referring to someone who writes and/or illustrates manga,
Emphasis on shortage of artists.
Not writers.
I don't think they're going to find the help they're looking for. The Japanese model of taking a popular book and finding an artist who wants to adapt it is going to run into a harder cultural barrier over here. Basically... our artist community isn't willing to tolerate the crap that Japanese artists put up with from their producers.
Generally managaka are both authors and artists.
Thats why the corpos want to dillute the pool even further since the community is tight knit in both camraderie and buisiness. And it certainly doesnt kadokawa sets horrible quotas when it comes to the industries. 'At least one isekai per season'
Yes.
But in the last 10-15 years, an increasing number of the most successful titles have come from LNs. And this article is very specific on that point.
They specifically want more artists, not more creators (writer-artists). And I'm saying they're likely to have an even harder time finding them OUTSIDE of Japan than they're already having finding them IN Japan.