Realistically if your manga sells well in Japan how well off are you?

>1mil JPY = 9250 USD

So about as well off as I am?

Don't play dumb

No matter how well you are off, you will never enjoy it till you retire. Horikoshi spends all his money on figurines, which is the one luxury he can enjoy at work.

Generally yes, depends on contracts. Some people sign away movie rights for 10k flat fee and then complain about being ripped off

The publishers spend their money to print and distribute it to stores and 10% is the same cut you get from a book

Unless you are publishing in digital, there are lot of people involved in the magazines: editors, printers, marketing and the stores themselves. Everyone wants to be paid and wants to have a chunk that at least lets them life comfortably.

Rememver when that Polish guy with PhD in economics sold video game rights for Witcher franchise for a beer keg?

Tony Taka has a better life than Oda even though Oda is wealthier than Tony Taka.

There was a Tony Taka interview and he basically earns a shitload of money without having any real deadlines because he's a famous character designer and doesn't have stress like weekly or monthly manga deadlines.

His office is pretty fancy as well.

So in Japan, it's better to be a famous character designer rather than a famous mangaka due to work life balance.

Thje poeple who take lion’s share are retailers. The materials and the priting itself is also rasther costly. People get into book business out of pashion, the editors and their ilk would generally be better of working as janitors or cashiers and they would work less hopurs too.

Standard manga sells for like 400-500 Yen.
Let's say $4.
Let's assume the author earns $1 per piece.
100.000 sales already is a huge amount, x 12 months, could mean he becomes a millionaire within a year selling 12 issues, with the tankobon adding another $4 x 100.000 maybe.
This would be an exceptional success, but even a moderately successful manga could earn over $100.000 a year.

Depends on your contract. Big, established names have much more power to negotiate lucrative contracts.

Man yen is such a worthless currency.

He enjoys drawing manga, do you really think he was doing it out of a sense of obligation, over working himself to the point where he wants to draw on a hospital bed? Name another mangaka that WSJ force them to do that.

>Oda lives bad
Dude takes every fouth week off, has a personal bar at home and his toilet is a fucking shark den.

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Not all that expensive to do if someone really wills it

But why.

Oda is dollar millionaire/yen billionaire, expensive doesn't really matter to him. I'm just showing that outside of drawing manga he lives a good life, both at home and otside. His ToC comments usually are about meating some fellow celebrities or going out to concerts and plays.

More like why not.

>earns millions by doing what he enjoys doing
you right you right

Togashi during Yu Yu Hakusho

I think he only make names and detailed panels now,his assistants can draw the rest

if you have a successful manga you'd be well off but the average mangaka basically lives as a slave

Light novel has different contract compared to manga, closer to normal novels.

For Maruyama's case he probably get enough to live in Tokyo, but not rich. Especially since Overlord is his only published works.

It's almost like Japan had no idea what to do when their bubble burst

>3rd most traded currency in the world is worthless
1 yen is basically 1 cent so who cares

shounenfag tier(so OP, Bleach, Naruto) means you're probably set
lower-tier like Kaminomi to the point it got asked probably doesn't have much, prolly just enough to get by
doesn't Oda have a medical degree and is just drawing manga for the lulz?
or was it engineering degree?
eitherway he's very much welloff & a massive exception compared to the average mangaka who probably lives & dies depending on their product

>Imagine being paid a fraction for actually doing all the hard and creative work.
capitalism

>$1 per piece
unlikely, more like 50 cents a tank

How come toriyama is only worth $45 million?

Slump sold 32 million tanks
DB is the most successful franchise sans pokemon in anime
He also worked on DQ and Chrono trigger

Who the fuck was his agent/manager?

You’re thinking of Osamu Tezuka. Known as God of Manga.

Loads of tax evasions so his offisial worth is "only" 45 mil

Heh. What if he gets caught? All his current work goes down the drain?

youtube.com/watch?v=_fnW3IcArfQ

He did get caught for some tax evasion already and fuckall happened

You get to eat 3 times a day

Do we know how much Arakawa made off FMA?

Yu Yu Hakusho was only 175 chapters in total and only the final 3rd of it was rushed by deadlines. So Togashi almost died while writing 50-60 chapters and actually ended the series with this page being the very last page of YYH

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The best trick is to produce ONE really good series like Dragonball Z or Naruto and just make sure not to fuck yourself on the royalties deal when it gets animated/produced by other people.
That way you never have to do any more work and if your series goes to shit e.g. Boruto, no-one blames you since it's all anime-only shit.

Boruto is not even his series.

Won is worse

Are you buying all the paper and ink to print millions of copies yourself and then selling them yourself? If you want to draw one copy and sell it for pennies, go ahead, nobody's stopping you.

Yeah, that was the point of what he was saying. I bet he gets paid for it though.