Yuki Kawaguchi, mangaka of Red Hood, is now working under him as an assistant for The Elusive Samurai

>Yuki Kawaguchi, mangaka of Red Hood, is now working under him as an assistant for The Elusive Samurai
Is there any mangaka who has failed harder than Kawaguchi? The poor guy went back to being an assist after Red Hood's flop.

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What exactly do you think mangaka who aren't famous do when they aren't making their own serialization?

cry

That too, but for a living

>fail first time
>gets work as an assistant to a veteran
A lot of newbies would kill to get this chance

such a shame that red hood flopped the way it did, there was a lot of potential there but they decided to force it into another generic shonen with that stupid exam arc. the people wanted fun adventures and cool monster designs. hope he lands on his feet.

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Assistant work doesn't usually pay the bills on its own, so part time job and assistant work when needed is the real answer.

Least he's not unemployed.

Was red hood that bad? I wanted to give it a read because MUSCLE GALS but is there not point?

>Assistant work doesn't usually pay the bills on its own
It does though, unless you have a huge family.

What's so weird about it, this is just how it's always worked. He'll probably learn all kinds of useful shit for when he gets serialized again.

And?
He can at least learn from his mistakes and gain more experience and have the mangaka of Elusive Samurai give him good reference and connections

the first 10-12 chapters were really good, then they forced an exam/training arc that nobody cared about.
the girls were hot though

I really love Kawaguchi's art style. Hopefully next time he'll team up with a competent writer, because he can't write for shit

Nah, most assistants who go off on their own fail. They don't learn shit.

That's how it is, he could have struck gold wit Red Hood, premise was good, world can easily be expanded, but his starting point was really bland.

Nobody knows if he can write or not. His editor was Taguchi.

it's very bad don't bother.

this is the typical shounen training arc

>Finally make the Big Jump and get serialised
>Axed in 19 chapters
>Go back to irrelevancy

This is a major blow for anyone, he could make a comeback eventually though.

>The poor guy went back to being an assist after Red Hood's flop
Why is that a bad thing? Also
Red Hood wasn't even a hit why is working as an assistant again a downgrade?

I remember hearing that the writing was bad and not in the "I know my story is dogshit and I'm gonna have fun with it" kind of writing that the likes of Takahiro would do

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It's boring and a complete waste of the premise. There's one chapter of cool fantasy adventure with weird creatures and nice worldbuilding and the rest is boring messy fights, boring exam arc and rushed meta crap.

This.

there are three phases to red hood:
>wolf hunting
the opening, werewolves have squishy nightmarish biology, but if that doesn’t filter you, it’s a promising start of monster hunting and magic. also wolfonium, oh well no one’s perfect.
>exam arc
introduce a bunch of characters when the MC has barely been cemented. you get buff muscle mommy but the actual narrative is thin and predictable
>meta commentary about getting axed
everything goes off the rails as it spirals to the end. rushed, semi-nonsensical and leaning on underdeveloped character moments to sell what feels like the author barely holding back a tantrum on the page.

This was his golden chance I doubt he will have another shot again. They will always look back at red hood and have no faith in him. He gotta start all over again, it would have been better if he started in a lower position and worked his way up

It had a lot of potential and wasted it completely (this is pretty much how I see MHA). Give it a try if you have time, it's quite short.

He has a three series contract with jump, chill.

No, it's normal for mangaka to get to try again a couple times.

Has any GFC winner escaped the curse, or is it 100% so far?

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I think Beelzebub was a GFC winner.

Tabata

Don't know, but I think Taguchi started 0 successful serialization

It wasn't offensively bad, but it just wasn't very good. The manga dragged on in the starter village the first 5 or so chapters, then it showed some really promising stuff with the worldbuilding outside of the village, but then immediately stuck the MCs into a training + tournament arc. Kawaguchi is capable of making an interesting world but the writing and shitty pacing killed any chance of RH making it.
I just hope that he keeps trying, the girls in Red Hood were pure sex and some stuff like the crab tank was really dope.

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There's enough samples to know that it's mostly average. Hell, fucking Miura was an assistant once.

>we missed out on this viking hunk of woman
If the 3 series contract thing is true then at least we'll get to see this style again

It really isn’t as bad as you’re making it out to be. Sure he failed to have a successfully serialized manga, but what he created was deeply loved by many and for a time, world famous. That’s more than most can say, think of the tens of thousands of literal who’s who’d kill for the kind of exposure Red Hood gave this guy. Bet he had job offers round the block after it was axed, the art work and character designs were great, distinctive and memorable. No way other mangaka were going to let talent like his die on the vine, most people aren’t addicted to watching people fail and stay down like you.

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