ABSTRACT
Like many editors in the manga industry, I didn’t start working in manga “because I needed a job.” Manga was my obsession. Fiction was always my obsession, and there happened to be a “job” version of it that could (sometimes) pay my rent. As a child, instead of joining a sports team or taking piano lessons, I read voraciously and conquered video games; by the time I was a teenager, I’d discovered manga and anime and was writing hundreds of pages of fanfiction in my free hours after school. By 17, I’d been hired by my favorite manga company to write children’s books based on a franchise I was obsessed with, and the job led to more writing and editing work on manga, light novels, and an anime magazine. In my 15 years in the industry, I’ve worked on 150 books of manga and prose as a freelancer for four companies and recently started my own publishing house to publish global manga and light novels for women.
