The Artists Slaving for $1 an Hour

[@clowndrewskis]

Man’s creating the beginning of scientific analysis of manga

[@otakunemesis34]

We need more on this than just art technique and history of titles.

[@anoakenstaff]

Not to undermine your comment, but there already is a journal for the study of anime and manga.

[@DeadlyLazer]

Ever since learning that Tatsuki Fujimoto was assisted by the authors behind Hell's Paradise, Spy x Family, and Dandadan, I've been utterly fascinated by connections mangaka have with past mangaka. This video was an absolute gem for me because of that. Well done.

[@CoolGuyZool129]

Kentaro Miura briefly worked as an assistant for George Morikawa

[@മദ്യപാനം]

Right, Morikawa said that Miura was too good to work as his assistant right

[@stanchata]

I had no idea the manga medium was so interconnected, thank you for making this video!

[@huskee7684]

yo we have the same pfp, i thought maybe i watched this before but don't remember :skull:

[@40doors]

Dude… I remember reading a Reddit comment talking about the genealogy of Mangakas. It’s crazy to see someone finally did it! Please upload a picture of the entire family tree in higher resolution, it’s so interesting to see all the connected artists! Also, your google doc is really eye opening. It really does show how few actually get to evolve from assistant to mangaka. If you ever get the time, you could talk about how long it took (insert mangaka) to go from assistant to pro as well? I think it’d be a great way for younger, impatient artists to see how these guys aren’t overnight successes. Informative video with amazing editing. Definitely subscribing and checking out your other works. It’s inspired me to start getting serious about content creation!

[@snowqueen_8958]

I love this series please do more and how can I support the gentleman's works

[@canadianturtle7240]

The thumbnail image is from The Flowers of Evil manga, final chapters.

[@vltraviolence7640]

That panel was immaculate, what an end for the story

[@canadianturtle7240]

@@vltraviolence7640 I felt so bad for her, Nakamura. She's all alone now

[@crimcrammoo]

its similar to the western philosophy cannon: Socrates taught plato. plato taught Aristotle, Aristotle taught alexander the great, etc. same thing can be applied to most fields actually.

[@perrolokoz]

Great video, some additions you could add: Wataru Watanabe (Yowamushi Pedal) was also assistant of hirohiko araki. Shimabukuro (Toriko) was also Watsuki's assistant. Oda was also assitant to Masaya Tokuhiro (Jungle King Tar-chan) I mention this because I think you only put that Oda worked under Kaitani on your graph.

[@sunflower01212]

Just as the point you're trying to make in the video, not only do the manga assistants deserves recognition, but also including you! for giving a spotlight and bringing out a vital topic everyone should be educated on, how everyone idolizes heavily on the manga creator alone without giving credit to the assistants that greatly contributed in making a manga everyone knows and love, i'm rooting for your success in the future and get the recognition you wholly deserve.

[@real.jimmy23]

bro what do you mean by "everyone should be educated on"

[@sunflower01212]

@@real.jimmy23 everyone, but i guess more specifically on manga readers, so every manga reader who idolizes their favorite manga artist should at least give some credit to the assistants that contributed to the work

[@Miidadu]

Thank you for making this was moving and very detailed. Honestly now that I think about it almost every entertainment industry out has a graph just like this. weather its western comics, movies or video games. Someone made something that influenced/helped someone make another thing that will influence more and more people to make more and more things. The cycle continues.

[@colorlessvorak]

Bro, the smoothness of the editing is so good, its making me tired even thinking about the process. My eyes are actually watering.

[@gravitypull2436]

This is such a cool video; great insight, research, analysis, and editing! Keep it up! btw, there are like five Naoki Urasawas at 5:11, I didn't know that he figured out how to clone himself 💀

[@b_han]

It’s for the five different series all rated that high

[@gravitypull2436]

@@b_han Ahh, ok. Makes sense

[@dingusgoober]

This video genuinely deserves to be put somewhere. I have no idea where, but it needs to be spread around. I already had an idea how crazy the family tree of assistants were but I could not have imagined it to be at this scale

[@Jawad_Attia]

Great video. Appreciate the effort!

[@MrBrauza]

Welp Now I know Where to Go

[@h.n.4060]

This reminds me of something called the "Doctoral advisor family tree". Most PhD's in math and physics can trace their family tree all the way back to Euler, who is the most prolific mathematician in history (So much so that there's a joke that subjects in mathematics are named after the second person to discover it after Euler). In a way it makes sense that most people can trace their "ancestry" back to a handful of people; fields like manga or the hard sciences are really very limited. If you want to get published, there's only a few people who can do it (and the pool becomes more limited the further back you go, or some publishers simply died off and left no legacy, like an extinct species). If you want to study under someone, there's only a few people who can train you, and that propagates outwards. Unless some guy teaches himself how to do everything and gets his own series without any work experience (unlikely to happen), then there's always going to be this trail back to the first few artists decades or centuries back.

[@Xmusicana]

He’s back he is truly back

[@ivanav.3136]

awesome graph! the folks in r/data is beautiful from reddit would absolutely love this!

[@terriblewonder]

I thought the video was about you, your vids are so underrated!

[@noqpiki2]

Thank god this wasnt a 56min video essay

[@poemirtiza]

I wish this was a 56min video essay

[@noqpiki2]

@@poemirtiza job?

[@killerwill]

the pacing makes you want to keep listening and only 10mins in

[@nepticc]

This has a vibe of a jxmyhighroller vid, especially with the intro music and the outro music. Also with the visuals while you are talking about the connections.

[@notimeforcreativenamesjust3034]

Damn, I thought you were going to talk about Mappa

[@ThisWorldShallKnowPaino]

Thanks for the informative content Bhan! Last week I actually thought how absurd it is to be a nameless assistant when in the end you get mostly no credit for the work. Thanks to you I was educated! Keep up the meticulous work

[@bruhzzer]

I thought this was obvious, also I always wanted to be able to read the assistant's names on the credits to see the evolution of an artist's style

[@xXCaptainHoboXx]

Great video man! Noticed you used a picture of Beelzebub from Record of Ragnarok for Ryuhei Tamura on your chart. Ryuhei Tamura created a series called Beelzebub but that's completely different from the series ROR. Small mistake just thought it was funny is all!

[@_caster]

This is an awesome vid, never really saw this side of mangaka's assistants, so cool to see someone do a deep dive of it like this

[@connorsrealm]

Very cool presentation ✍ Important and fascinating. Exactly like American comic artists, many learned from each other directly, and created masterpieces. So exciting ✌

[@YUM0N]

Love the jxmyhighroller vibes. Really fascinating topic and data from this video, just wish the title/thumbnail conveyed the message of the video better

[@fizzymizzy_]

11:40 okay that blew my mind, i am a hero is in my top 5 favourite manga, and homonculus is definetely up there, i did not expect at all that hanazawa sensei would work under him. wow. good shit dude.

[@inkozu]

5:30 my boy u got urusawa 5 times in there lmaooo

[@YWLZ]

this is amazing, pls make an expanded version of this, like a timeline or something

[@ianfink2751]

I was not expecting Tatsuya Egawa on the list, always great to see him get some love, especially with Golden Boy. I hoped Shuzo Oshimi would get some attention, especially with the thumbnail, but I assume he didn't have as many connections. Regardless, great video, definitely learned a lot.

[@containercore6832]

There's a kind of similar tree, although not anywhere near the size, of Hergé's assistants on Tintin, who all went on to have their own series (Blake & Mortimer, Alix, Yoko Tsuno). I think it's a very good idea in general but the slave wages and inhuman hours in manga/anime are inexcusable.

[@BinaryDood]

Nihei stopped using assistants at the very beginning

[@JohnSmith-us9fv]

The quality of this video is insane!

[@noirbebop]

really really well done video! you deserve so many more subs (also your username is one name off of my real name which i've never heard anyone else use before so it's kinda surprising)

[@vltraviolence7640]

Dude Flower of Evil thumbnail. That panel image was immaculate

[@flashgenies]

For real

[@vichobocho]

Japan is a small almost closed country, they have a handfull of artist, of course most of the big mangakas worked for other big mangakas, this is like the 6 grades of separation thing.

[@CodeOhtsutsuki]

Wish you would’ve given a mention to Toriyama and Toyotarō in the bonus connections section

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

Two mangas I've read involving Mangakas and their assistants are Look Back and Downfall. Definitely a must read for those who want to see the authors' insight regarding the manga industry, especially involving assistants.

[@vishaljadhav9196]

It blow my mind I never thought of this

[@chestnutters9504]

Shoutout to Studio GAGA and all the other studio assistants out there, you guys make the manga world go round! 万歳!

[@LandsBizarre1890]

This is SUPER underrate, and I'm glad that YT recommended me this video l

[@deshawn1995]

Yeah man this video is something 👌 ima make sure to share this

[@Juan-me9cx]

Man, do you have that graph upload it somewhere, I would like to study it, and thanks for this videos, it feels like you are a teacher giving a lesson on manga history

[@c0nsoomer924]

Really sick video. Really like this style of video you have been doing.

[@heitorsantoslima9289]

Oh, not only it is a job to get the foot on the door, so to speak, it has cultural nuances as well: in japanese culture continuity is something they really really really strive for, whichi explains how old tech is still around, how manga borrow elements from each other, etc etc etc.

[@FangLeng-lh4gn]

Ikemoto went from being youngest assistant for Naruto to the face of Boruto, side by side with Kishimoto sensei.

[@mikomicho9772]

thanks to modern day technology anyone can publish his manga as a webtoon or anywhere online without a publisher and it just becomes a matter of marketing for the new manga to become popular so maybe its not all over for the current assistants

[@Supremacy_King]

thought i was watching a jimmy highroller video for a quick sec

[@doopdope2211]

13:40 Yuki Kawaguchi... 😔 got his work axed after (presumably) leaving mha to make his own work

[@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947]

Amazing how Honjo is still above your assistant kiss to Inoue fans.

[@llexnn555]

Insane analysis, I really enjoyed your content

[@XIIREX]

Great video!

[@Scarcheeze]

Please make more this type of video about mangakas and studio animation

[@andrewmax5315]

This essay was soo good man

[@katsuoda]

this is a huge amount of work, I thank you endlessly for this, this is really important to me

[@tzfsr]

Yo, this is a great video man! I was never bored and this had my attention the entire time. If you don't mind, I do have one piece of advice. Spline the movement so it eases not just in but out as well. It'll make it a little less abrasive.

[@rin-sv2sk]

the creator of beastars being the daughter of the creator of Baki is actually insane

[@booneybear2107]

insane video get this man a larger following gahdamn

[@gavinzhou3168]

Bro this video is a heaterrrr

[@beyondonelessthanzero]

I believe bro just finished read Billy Bat and proceed to made this video

[@shocknawe]

1:30 - So that background in the last rectangle at the bottom isn’t from the assistants?

[@Blue-Bit]

Great video i learnt alot from you ❤❤

[@typeiii3262]

Great video, curious, were you find anything out about Tite Kubo's work? Did he foster any artists?

[@b_han]

Nope, no notable assistants

[@esthreex]

makes you wonder if being a successful mangaka is largely based on who you know

[@fatedpotato12]

Eiichiro Oda was assistant for Samurai X always means to me because both mangas are my gems since my childhoor

[@infamousshinkicker6924]

Dude, listen. You are a fucking legend. I can't fathom how much effort and time making this video took. Ummm, AUTISM????? jkjk, but good job!

[@Paraliyski]

Kishimoto my goat not being an assistant to ANYONE is consistent with his goat status!

[@encouraginglyauthentic43]

Yeah the war arc makes him a goat

[@kyojurorengoku8096]

​@@encouraginglyauthentic43 That was one of the weakest arcs of naruto. Pain arc>war arc Marine ford>war arc

[@encouraginglyauthentic43]

@@kyojurorengoku8096 I know, I said that because it sucks.

[@kyojurorengoku8096]

@@encouraginglyauthentic43 oh sorry 😞 forgive me

[@Rosen666]

Dude you're amazing!!!

[@Ragnar_Oock]

before the 13 minute mark : this is great, I never new all those were connected! after the 13 minute mark : **existencial dread**

[@MrAaaaazzzzz00009999]

i think you should note the time spent working as an assistant because some of them are really short. I don't think Miura worked for more than 2 months under Morikawa

[@piyushraj8109]

I mean yes but making this chart is already complex so considering the time will be make it even more complex . Also, the main point is the connection of each mangaka .not their time Spent

[@physicscat97]

Amazing video!!!

[@sewerbrat]

THIS IS SO WELL DONE

[@toveliz]

Hey I'm a big fan can you please do a video on the manga Usogui the lie eater It's an underrated thrilling and gambling manga I recommend It It's a bit long with 539 chapters and the start can be a little hard to understand but once you get It going through chapter after chapter In the gambling matches are amazing the panels are very detailed.

[@Dave102693]

This is no different than in the animations industry

[@TheKaiyash]

The daughter of baki's author being the author of beastars is so wild also imagine you have an assistant working on your cool samurai manga, he's pretty good and wants to make this silly pirate manga and then it blows up. I'd be a little salty

[@Anadil4498]

3:27 why did you add that plankton image lol

[@sheggy5442]

No love for Katsura Hoshino (D. Gray Man) in the section talking about authors who worked with Obata??!

[@Allplussomeminus]

For how much we love and admire manga, the people behind it are treated like trash. This world can be so backwards at times.

[@DIFFFF-p7n]

Yusuke Murata is manga assistant too before but now nahh

[@gokulomega]

This guy dropped an archive worthy video pog boi

[@danielg.w5733]

I am shocked you didn't mention the creator of Golgo 13

[@joeocampo1942]

So basically Tradesmen Apprentice, however paided less.

[@Mungdaal304]

Depends on who you're apprenticing under. I did a free apprenticeship with a guaranteed job after 3 years. I didnt over work myself or anything though. I just had to learn or else I could cause serious damage in someone's home

[@shinigamisecret]

I think the illustration is cool but the editing had me lose track of what time line we were actually following. Good video tho

[@strugglingproficiently7947]

This makes the goofy ass family tree in JoJo make so much more sense

[@fireplanefirefighter]

I love your brand of tism

[@Wapcvm]

This is such an amazing way to form a compliment I hope someone says that same thing to me later.

[@Top_Galer]

6:40 The Tokiwa-sō gang

[@jahrichest]

Sensational

[@rubub8455]

I think like 15% of the video is actually about the Shuho Sato

[@solojun27]

5:11 3 Naoki Urasawas 😂Bro is a god

[@musicccccccccccccccc]

great video

[@theredshift180sx]

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[@out_reacher]

The jxmyhighroller sound effect 0:48 💀amirite? did he coin that?

[@williammclean6594]

This is a problem in Japan in manga and animation. Unless you're like really popular and make a hit, they pay you less than they would at McDonald's. It's a cultural thing that Japanese people don't speak out against Injustice. They just take it because it's the cultural norm and it would be seen as complaining. So that's why there's like no unions or anything for animation. They really should go on a strike though if they did. No anime or manga would be made and then the economy would crash a lot because they make a lot of money off anime without paying their artists. Hardly anything. Then they would be forced to increase wages for artists. If I was this guy or a mang artist in Japan, I would just move to the states where there's an actual Union. You could work for. Marvel a lot of manga artists from Japan have moved to the states and are working for Marvel. You could even start your own manga after you move. There's just so many problems in Japan. A lot of racism discrimination against foreigners. I was watching this video from this guy that I follow on KZbin whose Australian and is married to a Japanese woman in Japan. And on more than one occasion she's just yelled at him and said why can't you be Japanese. Because like her parents were always upset that she married a foreigner.

[@Cloneology]

good script and hook

[@uiebwuiowebuiopwebfoipbewfoip]

5:27 why does naoki urasawa appear 5 times

[@KorbroYT]

Very interesting watch 👍