JUMP RYU SUMMARY - Yoshihiro Togashi

>[Before becoming mangaka]

- Togashi's parents managed a company which sold papers, painting tools, stationery and manga magazines. His father's hobby was drawing.

- When Togashi was around 6 years old, he used to draw many of his original heroes and monsters.
When he was around 8 years old, he was inspired by one of his friends whose hobby is drawing manga. They showed their mangas with each other.

- When Togashi was in junior high school, he was fully attracted by some Shoujo mangas whose essential was Shounen manga-ish such as Mineo Maya's manga.

- Since then, he started reading "Urusei Yatsura" and learned how to attract female audience.
Togashi thought he was suitable for Shoujo manga although his favorite manga genre was Shounen manga.

- Togashi was going to become a junior high school art teacher, but gave up right after he started his internship.
This was because he was afraid that his own words might influence students directly.

- The reason Togashi was going to become a teacher was that he thought he would not be able to work in the same way as normal adults did.
Shaving and wearing a business suit every day is what Togashi considered impossible for him. He was afraid of living a life outside school.
After he gave up working as a teacher, he had no choice but to work as mangaka.

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- In 1986, Togashi's hype was skyrocketing when he was selected as one of the finalists in a famous manga audition, Hop Step Award.

- When he was a college student, his editor said to him, "Even if you end up not being able to succeed as mangaka, you have an alternative choice to live as a teacher".
After this statement, Togashi got more serious in drawing manga and dropped out of a college. Then he moved to Tokyo aroud 1989.

- When moving, he suffered a trouble about his household goods not arriving his house for a week. Togashi had no choice but to sleep on the floor.

- He couldn't afford to buy a single desk, so he used a drawer as desk when drawing manga. Togashi said it was painful since his legs couldn't put under the drawer. lol

- Togashi was about to run out of his bank deposit. He felt really relieved to hear that Shueisha decied to make a serialization of his manga.

[After becoming professional mangaka]

- The first manga serialization for him was Ten de Showaru Cupid ("An Ill-tempered Cupid in Heaven"). It became pretty famous, but it finished earlier than expected (chapter 32).
Togashi now regrets that he should have prepared a rough plot till the finale before serialization.

- 2-3 months after finishing his first serialization, new ideas for next manga came to his mind one after another. Then He started Yu Yu Hakusho soon.

- Togashi dsecided to focus on the occult and battle in Yu Yu Hakusho since both of them were his favorite genres.

- Editor told him that Toagshi is good at creating a story. Togashi was glad to hear that, but at the same time,
he thought it wasn't enough in order to maintain great popularity for more than 30 chapters. That's why Yu Yu Hakusho turned into battle manga and made a great success.

- Editors in Shueisha consider it is one of the greatest role models to turn a manga which ends in each single story into battle manga.
The role model for Togashi was "Kinnikuman" ("Muscle Man"). It started as comedy manga and then turned into battle manga, which
Togashi believes can entertain shounen in terms of both surprise and excitement.

- One year after he finished Yu Yu Hakusho in 1994, Togashi suggested his editor that he would like to draw manga that would NOT become much popular.
This is because he wanted to show various aspects of his personality as mangaka to his audience.
Togashi believed he had already drawn traditonl Shounen manga to the best of his ability in Yu Yu Hakusho.

- Togashi also told his editor that he would start traditional manga again after he finished "Level E". Editor accepted it.

- In "Level E", Togashi was going to finish stories in each chapter, but Prince Baka (stupid prince) became popular as opposed to his expectations.
Thus, he decided to make Prince Baka the protagonist of Level E. The prince had complicated personality which always went beyond everyone's imagination, so Togashi had difficulty in creating a story.

- Having finished Level E, Togashi started Hunter Hunter. He keeps in mind that he should change his style in each arc so that his audience can be surprised.

- Togashi considers character's personality is sometimes important than story. The ending of Chimera Ant arc was not what he expected at first.
He makes a simulation about how his characters will talk with each other and take an action in specified situations, which allows his audience to feel as if his characters really exist.

- Togashi loves professional slang. For example, his characters call "turn over" when they visit websites.
Also, he shows detailed concept of Nen as if it exists as some kind of martial arts in real world.

- Togashi tends to show some rules to his audience at first such as Greed Island arc.
He enjoys the process finding system bugs or shortcuts in the rules to go beyond expectations of audience.

- In Chimera Ant arc, Togashi enjoyed making a super long list as to how his characters would take actions since 10 days before invasion in Royal Palace.
He wanted to draw characters in desperate situations taking an unexpected action when they came across someone accidentally.
Editor gives exmaples such as encounters between Morel and Shaiapouf/ Killua and Meleoron.

- Togashi has been attracted by dirty side rather than beautiful side ever since he was a junior high school student.
Editor considers Mukuro in Yu Yu Hakusho is one of the typical examples.

- About drawing style, Togashi decided to draw Yu Yu Hakusho impressively and Level E realistically.
In Hunter Hunter, he keeps in mind that he should not use screentones as possible as he can.

- Togashi doesn't specify detailed personality of boss characters from the beginning. For example, Toguro in Yu Yu Hakusho was just a bodyguard at first, but
his personality gradually became more attractive as his grudge against Genkai was revealed.
About boss characters' appearances, he enjoys making them complicated since boss characters don't make much appearances.

- While Togashi is drawing manga, he listens to TV show ad enjoys talking about it with his assistants.

- Togashi considers himself not being good at drawing color spreads.

-Togashi memorises facial expressions ot characters in other mangas. One of his favorite book is "Facial Expressions" written by Mark Simon.

- There are 5 assistants in his studio.

does it mention anywhere when hxh will be coming back

- Togashi thinks of Akira Toriyama as a god. He has Dragon Ball 30th book.

- On Togashi's desk, there is some manuscripts of a fight betweemn Hisoka and Kastro which he considers as bad quality.
He pays attention in order not to repeat the same error. Togashi also says that people on internet fandom were embarrassed with the chapter at that time. lol

- The previous editor says, "Togashi-sensei is very gentle. He remembers what editors said in the past and sometimes bothered to be worried about us."

- Editor thinks Togashi resembles Gin Freecss in terms of personality.

- An editor says he was scolded by Togashi only once when he changed words in manga a bit without permission.

- Togashi sticks to every single word in manga. He even doens't want to use various fonts since he is always confident of his words being interesting.

- Togashi's message to mangaka beginners:

"Keep in mind about audience.
Make every effort to go beyond their expectations".

>Sauce: apforums.net/showthread.php?t=28240&page=678&p=3716475&viewfull=1#post3716475

Yes. NEVER

>Hiatus x Hiatus
We're all going to die before he finishes the manga.

Pretty interesting stuff. Thanks OP.

>- Togashi thinks of Akira Toriyama as a god.
The king and the prince of laziness.

>JUMP RYU SUMMARY - Yoshihiro Togashi
Does anyone have the others?

>caring about any shounen mangaka but Togashi

>caring about Togashi
Top kek

> There are 5 assistants in his studio
What these guys do? Can't any of them just do the heavy lifting already?

Beautiful page. I love the impressionist style and the way he uses the layout to convey the scale of the tree.

Assistant number 1: turns on the TV and connects the video game cables.
Assistant number 2: holds the gauze fan.
Assistant number 3: holds the glass with juice.
Assistant number 4: removes the sweat on Togashi's forehead.
Assistant number 5: lies to the editor.

Togashi should make a shoujo

>There are 5 assistants in his studio
>What these guys do
Nothing evidently

>- Having finished Level E, Togashi started Hunter Hunter. He keeps in mind that he should change his style in each arc so that his audience can be surprised.
COOL

It was mentioned (I think it was in the Viz translated interview with Kishimoto) that during the Election arc, they drew the clothes of the Zodiac characters because Togashi had trouble with his hand after making the whole storyboard of 30 chapters in two weeks.

He probably only calls them occasionnally when he has some work done and the rest of the time they're working with someone else/doing other side-jobs.

>There are 5 assistants in his studio.
Then why can't he finish his fucking manga?

>"Keep in mind about audience.
>Make every effort to go beyond their expectations".
LAUGHING OUT LOUD HIATUS-MAN

>Shaving and wearing a business suit every day is what Togashi considered impossible for him. He was afraid of living a life outside school.
After he gave up working as a teacher, he had no choice but to work as mangaka.
Glorious bastard.

From scribbles to even bigger scribbles. Legit artstyle change.

Dubs speaking the truth as always.

Togashi is a very good writer. I hope he able to finish HxH

What will end first, berserk or hxh?
Who will die first Miura or Togeshi before finishing their work?

5 minutes.

>editor thinks Togashi resembles Gin Freecss in terms of personality.

Togeshi shittiest dad in Japan, confirmed.

I can't help but like Togashi more everytime I learn something about him.

Im@s would need to end first.

Togashi values his family over work, though.

The editor probably means Ging's eccentric sperginess

Why is Narudo so shit?

kek

That image is so 2010. How nostalgic.

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What was wrong with the Kastro fight?

>The Homos
That got a good kek out of me.

Have you seen it in the manga?

Timeskip when?

>- Editor thinks Togashi resembles Gin Freecss in terms of personality.

A neglectful asshole who doesn't care about what his creation? Sounds accurate

Yeah, and it's not that bad.

He could've become a garbage man or something. Then he wouldn't have to wear a business suit.

Ye perhaps he should.

Pretty sure being a mangaka is more comfy and rewarding. Plus you have a lot of free time.

Do you think that attempt at a filename is enough to not get you called out on your shitty images?

>Editor thinks Togashi resembles Dwun in terms of personality
ftfy

>He keeps in mind that he should change his style in each arc so that his audience can be surprised.
He's spot on with that, I can deal with hiatuses as long as he doesn't get predictable

went back and read it, that """"""fight"""""" is 95% verbal, so that's a start.

cringey

>Pika in the middle along with Gon
Confirmed for more important than Leorio and Killua.

I think Togashi intentionally made Gon and Pika similar.

Leorio isn't important at all.

You know that isn't a new drawing right? It's a Yorkshin volume cover. Kurapika is at the center because he IS the most important in that arc.

it's obviously drawn left to right youngest to eldest.

Yet their works are popular and live with little to no effort
Unlike Oda who is Shueisha cuck

Gon is younger than Killua.

>Yet their works are popular and live with little to no effort
Because their fans are stupid.
>Unlike Oda who is Shueisha cuck
More like keeping the company afloat. If Naruto ending caused Jump sales to drop just wait until OP ends.

He was referring to the art in that fight which was awful.

>timeskip
who does this benefit? HxH is already 95% adults already

nop

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Yup. Two months younger.

You have that backwards.

God damn it

KUBO AND TOGASHI CONFIRMED HANGING OUT TOGETHER

>Kubo explaining that he has been aimlessly spending his days playing Dragon Quest and doing things like getting a massage for his left shoulder that started to hurt while he was working on his manga. The max level for Dragon Quest X apparently increased from 85 to 96. Kubo had new momentum in his gameplay, and he had a good team to work with. But things didn't progress as well as he hoped, and his play style wasn't working out.

I bet he spent half of the time looking for the best looking EQ

>The max level for Dragon Quest X apparently increased from 85 to 96
>Togashi went on Hiatus

Holy fuck he's not even subtle

Togashi looked kinda frumpy and moved like he was old as shit in the video. Also his manga collection is pretty interesting, I'm surprised that he likes Area D of all series. It's cute that he keeps a sign photo and box of chocolate from the main voice actresses of the 2011 anime on his reference bookshelve as well.

Where can I see it

He sounds old as shit too, jesus christ
bilibili.com/video/av6959778/

It's surprisingly relaxing watching him work, wish they shown him drawing more like a page from the manga.

>Togashi considers himself not being good at drawing color spreads.
This is a nice piece, though.

This is hella comfy, and I like Togashi's voice.

Even with my limited Japanese I got Togashi saying this page was mostly his assistants and not him. I guess I can no longer post it in response to people saying his art sucks

People who say his art sucks don't know what they're talking about to begin with. If Togashi composed the page, that's more reflective of skill than taking the time to draw detailed buildings.

some people still think that mangakas are just illustrators.

Can someone list the manga in his library? I can't see anything on this site.

I think that while Togashi's coloring looks childish, it does have a certain charm to it.

Kubo said it, not Togashi.

I was not expecting his voice to be that deep.

I couldn't really tell most of them since they were in Japanese but I saw Akira, a manga adaptation of the Gits Arise movies, Area D and Kokou no Hito.

and Mononofu wtf

Can't blame him for that one, HxH incorporates game-like elements into the tension so him reading a manga about a game doesn't surprise me.

>They plan 18 volumes
>They even release a box to put all the DVDs in
>Then, after they're all released, they announce more