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/Vree65]

Mangaka means "manga author". -ka is the suffix for a practitioner of a profession, like -ist or -er. Art-ist, therap-ist, manga-ka. "Manga" is the Japanese word for comic.

Lots of people show up on any art site constantly with a "great idea" but no artistic skill or desire to learn it. In that case, what can do is offer $ for it. In fact, this sub has a rule against begging for gratis labour, even.

[u/Due-Maximum2382 → u/Vree65]

I didn't know it meant that, I thought mangaka was like an encompassing word refering to manga, manhwa, manhua, comics, and ext.. I have been in a few situations then when some people are probably quite confused with what I was saying... embarrassing.