Thread:Arima no megane/@comment-25787298-20160513113337/@comment-25787298-20160603204628

I am an aspiring independent Graphic Novelist, inspired by manga and its business. Even before my interest in anime (which gave rise to my interest in manga) was existent, I found interest in Chinese and Japanese culture by the way they were depicted through media.

For these reasons, I want to take some time in my life to invest in the culture that ultimately led to much of my entertainment and growth as an individual. So Japanese would be one. Besides, how cool would it be to be able to legitimately bring in a manuscript to a Shuiesha magazine of some sort and have a serious chance of being a mangaka? (Not my goal here. I want to independently produce and publish. I will abide by no censorship [I use the general term])

I have a hard time deciding between German and Chinese as a third, as I doubt I'd ever even get 3 languages down, but I may end up trying to learn Spanish as it could be of practical use for me in my area. Russian is a cool one, but Russian and German aren't inspired by anything in particular (or at least, that comes to mind) from my past. It is merely inspired by how the majority of my stories will take place in real life, in the real world. I have a martial arts school in one of these stories that has an international collective for their student body. In this story, several of the main characters are Japanese, or of Japanese decent, and I want to depict that realistically as possible. I even use real world locations and reference real life events in this particular story. (This one I'm speaking of would probably be my end-all-be-all, as I intend on producing at least 5 stories beforehand for several reasons)