A few questions about the manga?

[Vilvake]

1. How many people work on it?

2. How much of the writing and drawing does Kishimoto do himself?

3. How far in advance are the chapters made? Is each week's chapter finished a couple days before release? Or is it possible that many chapters are already finished and waiting to be released?

4. I don't know if other people have this problem, but since the manga isn't colored, sometimes I find it difficult to understand what is happening. Fights especially... sometimes they are so confusing that I just skip to dialogue, just getting the plot basics, and wait for the anime to see the action. However, when reading fan-colored chapters, everything is perfectly clear and the experience is much more enjoyable. Why doesn't the Naruto production team hire a few people to color the chapters before they're released? I bet the extra sales from colored chapters would more than cover the additional cost.

 

[I Am Pein]

1. How many people work on it?

2. How much of the writing and drawing does Kishimoto do himself?

3. How far in advance are the chapters made? Is each week's chapter finished a couple days before release? Or is it possible that many chapters are already finished and waiting to be released?

4. I don't know if other people have this problem, but since the manga isn't colored, sometimes I find it difficult to understand what is happening. Fights especially... sometimes they are so confusing that I just skip to dialogue, just getting the plot basics, and wait for the anime to see the action. However, when reading fan-colored chapters, everything is perfectly clear and the experience is much more enjoyable. Why doesn't the Naruto production team hire a few people to color the chapters before they're released? I bet the extra sales from colored chapters would more than cover the additional cost.

1.a small team of 4 f u want to say just the manga itself, but of course you have publication, retail, distrubution and other things

2.he does all the drawing himself, its not alot considering its 21 pages of black and white it takes about a week thats why there realeased evvery week

3.there released as soon as there done with it maby a little more for the translated version obv but it snorm a 24 hour period of translations

4.they color them afterwards but its traditional i think to release in black and white

 

[Vilvake]

1.a small team of 4 f u want to say just the manga itself, but of course you have publication, retail, distrubution and other things

2.he does all the drawing himself, its not alot considering its 21 pages of black and white it takes about a week thats why there realeased evvery week

3.there released as soon as there done with it maby a little more for the translated version obv but it snorm a 24 hour period of translations

4.they color them afterwards but its traditional i think to release in black and white

Is this just your guess? Or is it factual information?

 

[Floydical]

1. Kishi has a small team that works on the manga directly with him. Its likely that not 100% of the manga is solely Kishi's work, its very likely that small details are decided on by a group of 5-8, perhaps more than we may think.

2. Apparently Kishi does all the drawing himself.

3. They do one chapter a week. The exact time of the individual releases vary week by week.

4. Color is not typically used because it makes creating the chapters much longer. That's why you only see color in specialty chapters.

 

[Honord Sage]

Writhing team,Art team,Censor team,Marketing team, promotion team, you be surprise what it takes to make the Manga. It has its own miniature world.

 

[AaaaNinja]

The manga are due two weeks before the magazine is published.

All of your questions can be answered if you read Bakuman. It's a manga about mangaka who work for Shonen Jump.

Sometimes the mangaka in that have a few chapters done ahead of time, and sometimes they are barely able to make their deadline and pull all-nighters. Based on some of the blurbs Kishimoto included in some of his volumes, it doesn't sound like he manages to complete them early.

He has his assistants do backgrounds and background characters and he has an assistant or two who are really good at special effects too (explosions and stuff). He draws and inks the characters, he probably pencils in the background too but the assistants finish them up. When the deadline is getting close of course he pitches in. I don't know how many but it seems like the usual size of a mangaka's staff is like 3-4 people. He's done illustrations of his staff posing together before and that's about how many there are.

He does all of the writing himself, and the editor might make demands or suggestions, since he always has to make a rough draft and then run it by his editor. He also talks to his editor about which direction the story is going to go, and his editor was probably involved when they discussed how it will end, which happened somewhere around the time Naruto was done learning Sage Mode (he mentioned that he had decided on the ending in a volume that came out around the middle or near the end of the Pain Arc).

 

[Hori]

Its Japan tradition to release black and white manga...