Do You Think Manga Artist should Be Paid More?

[YoDiggetySam]

honestly i dont think they get paid enough

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[Kaneki Kun]

It all depends on the sales.

 

[Mahesvara]

How much do they make on average?

 

[Sasori]

How much do they make?

 

[Madara the Solo King]

Yeah for sure, because those drawings that they make take time and effort and should be rewarded much more for entertaining the fans. How much do they get paid now?

 

[YoDiggetySam]

this a quote from another thread
"Newcomers vs Experienced mangakas.
Which company is serializing their work.
Weekly vs Monthly.
20 pages vs 40+ pages.
If you hire assistants.
Etc
Etc

Let's take for example a newcomer doing a weekly 20page chapter. I'll just ballpark and say ~$10-11 per page multiply by 20 pages and lets say the company serializing it does 50 issues a year. In one year they would make in the ball park of $10k to 11k.

So as a newcomer who probably won't have enough Tankobons or an Anime for awhile, you probably won't get much. At least not enough to push through paying your bills and keeping up your supplies needed for the manga.

More popular artists probably get a lot more. They probably can get paid into the $80 to $100 range per page, doing the same 20 pages and same 50 issues. But that would net them $80k+ per year instead. Plus they get royalties from their volumes selling (though do note that in Japan manga is only ~$5 per volume so it's less obviously than what we pay, BUT if your popular you are probably selling truckloads anyway), plus royalties if the Anime was made.

With royalties added in they probably could be making well over $100k per year. Also I am just going off old info I know I looked up before. All of this could be vastly different. Oh and I believe American comic artists are about the same (I could be vastly wrong on that). As for me publishing my own manga, I can't even draw stick figures, so I doubt I could even do a webcomic much less something that would be published in an actual book."

 

[AaaaNinja]

They get a hell of a better deal than comic artists in the US used to get (I'm not sure how it is now). In terms of rates, who the property belongs to, royalties, licensing (VERY IMPORTANT) etc. If the manga artists' comic is successful, they do get to benefit from the additional tankoban sales.

Is anybody here old enough to remember how the comics' industry treated artists in the US?

 

[Shanks]

Managakas (manga artists) are payed at a set rate per page, per week. Payments vary between publishers, but one such popular publisher, Shonen Jump, pays at a rate of 12,000 yen (roughly $120 U.S. Currency) per page, and standard chapters are around 20 pages per week. That by itself is a low payment, but they are also deducted for the rent of their workspace (usually an apartment), on top of assistants. Individually, assistants are usually payed around 2000 dollars, but may vary according to experience. All in all, manga is a shifty business. Little pay, long hours, but still the dream job for many an artist.

 

[AaaaNinja]

Managakas (manga artists) are payed at a set rate per page, per week. Payments vary between publishers, but one such popular publisher, Shonen Jump, pays at a rate of 12,000 yen (roughly $120 U.S. Currency) per page, and standard chapters are around 20 pages per week. That by itself is a low payment, but they are also deducted for the rent of their workspace (usually an apartment), on top of assistants. Individually, assistants are usually payed around 2000 dollars, but may vary according to experience. All in all, manga is a shifty business. Little pay, long hours, but still the dream job for many an artist.

This is all assuming that it's the mangaka who is responsible for the management of their own assistants in terms of pay and all that. I thought that it was the publisher (Shonen Jump) who employs them and allocates them to their various mangaka. Mangaka do not have the time for business administration.

 

[Shanks]

This is all assuming that it's the mangaka who is responsible for the management of their own assistants in terms of pay and all that. I thought that it was the publisher (Shonen Jump) who employs them and allocates them to their various mangaka. Mangaka do not have the time for business administration.

Who is the exceutive producer of Naruto anime ? You should guess this by now they already learn art of business in the industry . Mangaka job is a prestigious job in Japan if you are in shonen industry it's like get admitted to Tohio University . You can end up being millionaire if things goes your way !
And about assistant you are wrong usually publishers have no role in this assistants are usually hired by Mangaka . Kishi was Togashi's pupil and same with Oda he was assistant to mangaka who created Rurono Kenshin .

 

[DanesoulX]

Managakas (manga artists) are payed at a set rate per page, per week. Payments vary between publishers, but one such popular publisher, Shonen Jump, pays at a rate of 12,000 yen (roughly $120 U.S. Currency) per page, and standard chapters are around 20 pages per week. That by itself is a low payment, but they are also deducted for the rent of their workspace (usually an apartment), on top of assistants. Individually, assistants are usually payed around 2000 dollars, but may vary according to experience. All in all, manga is a shifty business. Little pay, long hours, but still the dream job for many an artist.

Manga artist Yoshihiro Togashi does Hunter x Hunter and YuYu Hakusho without assistants or editors, so i'm guessing that is why he can take super long hiatus and still financially stabled.

 

[Shanks]

Manga artist Yoshihiro Togashi does Hunter x Hunter and YuYu Hakusho without assistants or editors, so i'm guessing that is why he can take super long hiatus and still financially stabled.

This event was before Yu Yu Hakusho he meet Togashi as a kid and learned the same shonen style from him !

 

[Sakura Michiko]

Yes they should be paid more. They do all that work... them and animators should be paid more...those people are seriously overworked. I remember I wanted to do animation and comics in japan and america but I heard about the pay and over work in Japan. I even wanted to do nursing in japan but they are still underpay. I think I'll just do animation and nursing here in America.

 

[Young Vongola]

Animators and mangaka alike should be paid more. But if a manga is successful and gets an anime, video games, and other merch they get paid quite well, so I guess the drive for making higher quality stuff is higher due to them getting paid so little.

 

[YoDiggetySam]

must be tough being a artist these days

 

[Hexuze]

Yes they should be paid more. They do all that work... them and animators should be paid more...those people are seriously overworked. I remember I wanted to do animation and comics in japan and america but I heard about the pay and over work in Japan. I even wanted to do nursing in japan but they are still underpay. I think I'll just do animation and nursing here in America.

In general, people in Japan are "overworked".

 

[Sakura Michiko]

In general, people in Japan are "overworked".

Exactly, but weeaboos think japan is the dream land. I mean it's cool but it's got problems too