Do editors actually exist? If so, how do so many shitty decisions pass? Are editors just idea guys...

Do editors actually exist? If so, how do so many shitty decisions pass? Are editors just idea guys? I don't think they actually write their own manga.

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What kind of stupid question is that? The fuck went wrong with you? Did you get dropped as a child?

Okay editor-san, go let bad decisions through again.

He did nothing wrong.

I'm going to assume you meant "shitty editors".

Are there any good editors?

The Naruto editor saved the Naruto manga, Squid 8 was Kishi unfiltered.

Go read a couple hundred fanfics. That's essentially what editors do on a daily basis, and try to shape them into workable stories. Editors aren't idea guys, they're your teacher scribbling in red pen "needs improvement". Doesn't mean they're always right, but you'd be an idiot to think they aren't helpful.

What qualifications do you need to become an editor for manga or comic books? Do you need to write a hit series yourself? Do you need some sort of college degree, trade school education, or apprenticeship?
If its not too much it seems like something that would be fun to do after retirement.

Plenty. Manga editors are pretty on-the-ball when you consider how many series are largely salvaged by them and how the vast majority of axes are justified.

The main point of editors is to force mangaka to work ceaselessly to deadlines

Editors are the only reason these shonen you read are actually anywhere decent.

That would be a shit job to do. It would require so much external knowledge about the demographics, what is currently popular, what might become popular, what could be done to help fix any ailing manga you come across.
It wouldn't even be short work either, with the work schedule of various mangaka, you'd have to balance multiple series at once and the unique challenges each bring.
Plus you'd need a large understanding of writing and all the shit that goes with that since you'll need to be smarter than the mangaka you're editing.
Unless of course you're the primary Editor for a long-running work, in which case you've got a smaller workload because you only have to work with one person

>Do editors actually exist?
Nope. They're actually a massive conspiracy staged by Japanese crypto-jews in Shueisha in order to make people think that thought process actually goes into manga and that it isn't just a means of destroying Western civilisation.

That sounds fun though. I love the way entertainment makes people happy and the things that people do behind the scenes to make it happen.
And you get to feel like you contributed to something bigger than yourself if the manga you edit takes off and brings happiness to the readers.
Also, you wouldn't necessarily have to be smarter than the mangaka you edit. You just have to be smarter or more thorough in certain aspects of writing. Quality checking and proofreading work isn't the same thing as writing it yourself from the ground up. One can get good feedback from an inferior writer if that inferior writer is superior in certain aspects.

The issue is with your theory is that your ability to write still has to exist and be of a certain level. The amount of work you have to put in to understand what should and shouldn't go into any given work would require an understanding which goes above and beyond just writing your own work.
I appreciate that you want to be supportive but Editors are essentially the hard carry when it comes to whether a series lives or dies so you can't really rock around being "inferior" in any regard or else you won't be able to fix the issues that you're not prepared to deal with.

Akira Jean-Baptiste Hattori

Editors are just businessmen, their decisions are based on what will sell and what won't

How do you demonstrate that level of understanding besides writing a hit series yourself though or apprenticing under someone else? While you can learn some writing in university, what you learn definitely isn't enough to write a good series. I had a friend who graduated from UC Berkeley literature and she crumbled and had panic attacks when she tried writing for a first time, then quit forever.

yes they do exist. I recommend reading/watching the parts in Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun where Nozaki's editor stops Nozaki from making his manga retarded - an example of how good editors bring eccentric mangaka back to reality and help them make a good manga

On the other side of the coin, watch the bits in Gintama where Gintoki acts as an editor or the bits in Saiki-K where Kusuo's dad (who is an editor) interacts with his mangaka. These are good examples of how bad editors can make things hard for the mangaka.

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It's an idea-guy job. It's a meme

>or apprenticing under someone else?
That's pretty much it. You either learn from the person above you while proving you know your shit or they take a yolo chance on you.

I wanna say I think editors can be ex mangaka. I don’t see that as unlikely, and maybe they make their own manga or maybe they don’t

>Are editors just idea guys? I don't think they actually write their own manga
What. Do you understand what an editor is? Why would they write their own manga?

>Are editors just idea guys?
Yeah, when they're not busy taking things out to fit an age rating standard. They'll say dumb shit like "make the villain look like a man, bugs are too lame".

Can you really critic a manga if you haven't wrote your own?

Editors have saved countless series user. Dragon Ball for example.

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There are good editors, and there are bad editors.

Yep. Early Naruto concept was shit. Nothing but furry shit. He let the ball drop though with the sasuke wank.

prove it

never read a web novel?

koreans inherently can't write regardless

Oh, I haven't stooped that low.

Didn't WSJ turn down attack on titan?

It wouldn't work on a weekly basis, would've joined under 19 if it was on WSJ

The mangaka of Jigokuraku is a former editor.