I always see people making a big deal over deadlines and how much trouble mangaka have in keeping up with it. But if they make sure they have a surplus of chapters prepared, the current week's chapter should already be ready so it shouldn't be a problem right?
This way, authors should be able to work at their own pace without the pressure of the deadlines and if the published chapters catch up to their currently worked on chapter, they can just take a break to prepare more chapters. During this break, don't return until you have at least several chapters at the ready to return to fill the deadlines of the following weeks.
This is actually much like how anime work, obviously anime are announced and begin development long before the release date. They don't just finish the first episode right before releasing it then have to start working on the second episode and finish it before the next week. Then once the season is finished and it's popular enough for a second season, start working on new episodes to release much later.
Manga can do something similar, following a seasonal format where most chapters are already prepared for this season. Then when it's finished, work on the next batch to release next season later instead of having to pump it out the same week of release every week.
That inevitably increases workload. Because if the editor/publisher vetoes a plot line or the audience reacts badly to a current arc, that can make several future chapters or even entire acts irrelevant.
Dominic Hughes
at one point it will catch up to you and you will need to take a break again where you have to work again, just work during work time and have real breaks
Josiah Clark
Fuck other people's opinions, write your own damn story however you want. As long as you're not flopping, they can't blame you, even with series that flopped, editors could easily be the ones at fault.
Kayden James
>the solution to mangaka not being able to make chapters on a deadline is to have them make even more chapters on a slightly different deadline!
This is as stupid as asking why mangaka don't just write the full manga before submitting it.
Charles Lee
So what you're saying is you should do what you want despite if it's popular, instead of following what the readers want?
Zachary Diaz
But they have all the time they want to make those more chapters. It's just when they return to publishing, they're able to release the chapters weekly without bearing the weight of every chapter each week.
Ian Ortiz
At the very least, it shouldn't be a priority, reader opinions can be accounted for next season. You should write your own story anyway and getting the work done is certainly more important.
Logan Gonzalez
this is why your garbage manga would get axed instantly in jump.
Leo Collins
If the original plan of your story is so fickle, you have to constantly change it each week, it wasn't a very good story to begin with.
Noah Brown
So publishers should just wait and hope the mangaka gets something done before readers lose interest, investors lost money, workers lose their job or the magazine just goes under because it has nothing to publish? All while the mangaka has to shoulder the combined workload of several chapters on a single sitting, with a undefined schedule and an unsure publishing status?
Oliver Campbell
Or the retards that read Jump just don't like your story. Plenty of manga in other magazines would be axed pretty quickly in Jump. Thankfully there are other magazines that don't try and change your manga as much or quickly get rid of it.
Hunter Davis
Jump has become really terrible lately, likely due to trying to force success up to the standard of their classic works.
Matthew Rodriguez
Like Space Pirate Cobra or something?
John Reyes
Regardless, it is a well documented fact that all of Jump's most successful series, who also happen to be the most successful manga in japan and some of the most successful comics in the planet, had to suffer through that level of editorial intervention to be as successful as they were. It is most certainty a good thing that multiple publishers exist and it is true current Jump is shit but that doesn't mean their methods don't work.
Carson Lewis
Competent editors are necessary to make sure stories have general appeal.
Maybe it's because Jump "had" good editors but that was a long time ago. The new editors just aren't doing as well. After all, the works that got jump popular worldwide like Dragonball, YYH, Kenshin and One Piece started 30 years ago so obviously the staff won't be the same.
Colton Nelson
When, exactly, are they supposed to find the time to make surplus chapters if they are already barely making deadlines?
