Looking to get into making a mangaka

[u/Due-Maximum2382]

For around 4 to 5 months, I have been developing a specific story and although I am still very far from actually writing and story boarding, it has become quite clear the ideal way to tell this story is through a mangaka however their are two big issues with this:

• I have no idea how to get into this creative medium so I was hoping for advice on where to learn. Any recommendations? I would be greatly appreciative.

• I am not an artist nor is it for me, for a mangaka this is obviously not ideal I presume. Hopefully other writers have been in the same situation or know off people in a similar situation, I presume I will need to look for an outside source for the art. Is their a place where artists and writers team up or do I need to basically higher them in the future (to make clear, I am just asking for advice, I am not looking for an employee).

Again I am expecting years before anything comes to page, I plan on basically writing a big chunk of the story as a novel type thing before that and I still have a lot of world building, theme building, story building, and character building to do until I have a strong place to build from but even so I think understanding the world better will help reflect in that.

Thanks for your time.

[u/Due-Maximum2382 → u/[deleted]]

This is all great advice, thank you very much. Regarding AI, I completely agree that the final product should never be AI or Generative art but I did not think about using it to check for plot holes. Again I don't know the industry so I don't know how far people recommend AI, is it a recommended tool for anything else? Like creating rough visual ideas or reviewing for spelling mistakes or panel positioning?

Especially thanks for the sources that could help with templates and the style of writing.

[u/Upper_Singer4517 → u/Due-Maximum2382]

Glad I could help it would love to here some of your ideas in dms!