I watched a Clamp interview a few days ago on this Japanese Channel in Canada.
I think it was the first time Clamp agreed to do a public interview on TV. The TV crew went to their studio in Tokyo to shoot some footage. It was SUCH a beautiful studio!!!
I always had the image of 4 desks pushed up together in one room with scrap paper and crap piled up high, but NO~~~~ it had a mini bar and everything!!! *_* They have a huge shelf with manga and information/reference books that they use for their mangas. Their actual work place is 4 adjoining rooms, each with a computer and light table and lots of storage space. Everything is designed in white so it looks very clean and pretty.
Considering all this is located in Tokyo, the studio must have cost a fortune~~~>_< But then again, they sold more than 88 million copies of their manga, so money obviously isn't an issue.
Of course they didn't start off that way. They mentioned that in the beginning, they rented this tiny apartment as their studio. When they stayed there at night, one of them slept in the closet and one slept in the space under her table.
I think one interesting thing that was brought up in the interview is that the storywriter NEVER tells the main artist(Mokona Apapa) the story until the last minute. The storywriter(can't remember her name) says that its becuz if she did, the future events of the manga might show in Mokona's art; and therefore, the story will be less effective. I don't agree with this cuz most mangaka's write their own stories anyway; whether or not they know the whole story beforehand is irrelevant to the overall effectiveness of the plot. The storywriter probably wants her storylines to be unpredictable, and she has succeeded since Clamp stories really CAN be very unpredictable. But whether or not that's a good thing is arguable. Sometimes I feel that the groundbreaking plot twists in Clamp mangas comes too suddenly. I don't think it's a bad thing to hint at the future events here and there in the course of a story(as long as the story doesn't become predictable). The readers may not understand these hints at first, but they all come together in the end.
But anyway, I've never been a huge fan of Clamp's stories...I've kept reading their mangas to drool over their kick ass artworks that always seems to be setting new standards in the industry~~
*_*
Do anyone know if the Shounen Jump artists ever showed their studios??? I'd LOVE to see photos( especially especially ESPECIALLy Obata Takeshi.. he's my idol
) Or!!! Minekura Kazuya sensei*_*!!!!!!!!
Anyway ..... I was wondering if there is any good manga lately??? Haven't been reading anything except deathnote and FMA. Is D. Gray-man any good? I haven't really read the new shounen jump mangas.
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