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Originally Posted by manganimefan227
Interesting, care to elaborate? (As far as how much they make) I've always wondered if writing and drawing a manga, like Masashi Kishimoto, would be enough to live on.
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I`m sure he has enough to live on NOW. But there are only a few manga that make it BIG BIG. The rest - you know, like the ones that don`t get licensed - do not ever get that big.
One of my friends from high school is a manga artist. Please do not ask who - that is irrelevant.
She makes 30,000/week from the serialized manga running in a magazine. (This used to be 18,000 before it was picked up as an anime.) She also gets 16,000 per episode of the anime made as a writer for it. She makes 20 off of each volume of tankoubon sold new. She sold the rights for making the anime for 300,000.
In total, she makes about 184,000 a month set, and about 300,000/month in sales (if there is a month where a new volume wasn`t released that drops down to about 50,000).
Out of this, she pays an assistant 100,000~150,000/month... And pays for about half her materials out of pocket.
On the good months, she has a whopping 350,000 in true income to spend on life. On the bad, she has a bit over 100,000.
She lives in an apartment+studio that costs 120,000/month, but is talking about maybe moving somewhere else and renting an office room somewhere else (like 40,000 for a tiny one room apartment way out of town and 40,000 for a one room studio in town for work) because it is painfully expensive to both live and work in town. (Save on good months in order to survive the next month until a new tankoubon comes out...)
Money? Glamor? Hahahahaha
My husband, working 9 to 6 with no overtime makes more than that. (And with overtime can hit double)
She works literally 10 hours a day at the least... And just barely scrapes by.
Before the anime came out, she worked 12 hours on her manga, and 6~8 part time at a convenience store to survive.
Those are the people who lose income when a manga is distributed online. Especially since income from the tankoubon is the biggest income source. My friend sold rights to the anime NOT to make money off of the anime itself, but to get more publicity for the tankoubon... Where she actually gets more money if more people buy it.