![]() YO: First of all, I didn’t want to write this story from the perspective of the one who was getting bullied, because I didn’t think that was interesting to me or anyone else. KC: Why did you decide to write this story from the perspective someone who was once a bully? KC: So you made this story with the support of your family? Drawing art and writing a story are both fun and yet difficult. But now I like making stories, or rather, it’s something I’ve been focusing on. YO: When I was younger, I liked drawing more. KC: Do you like writing stories or drawing art more? A mangaka can provide entertainment, but I don’t know if it would contribute to society in any specific way. If I say that I want to become a mangaka, it would’ve sounded like I just wanted to goof around. YO: Everybody around me had more specific occupations in mind that sounded good, like becoming a florist. But I was kind of embarrassed to tell anyone about my dream. I was actually drawing before I was reading. YO: When I was spending a lot of time reading and drawing manga, the thought to be a mangaka was at the back of my mind. KC: Why and how did you become a mangaka? That was the first series I collected myself.Ī Silent Voice is about Shota, a boy who was once a school bully, and his complicated relationship with a girl he bullied, Shoko, a girl who can't hear. YO: I’ve been most influenced by a manga called 3x3 Eyes. KC: What manga had the most influence on you? ![]() I only read a specific series from a certain manga magazine. There was stacks of manga everywhere at home, so I picked up some of them and started to read it myself. I have a brother who is six years older than me, and he liked to buy and read manga. KC: Did you read any manga when you were growing up? But when I was playing with friends, I was as happy as I can be. YO: A lot of stuff happened at school that made me that way. I was pretty active back then, although I became more of a gloomy person later. I was a tomboy who liked to play imaginary gunfights. So even though I wasn’t aware of it, I think I was pretty selfish. Yoshitoki Oima (YO): I was the youngest sibling in my family. Kodansha Comics (KC): When you were a child, what were you like? It has been announced that A Silent Voice will be adapted into theatrical anime in September 2016. In 2013, a remake of the A Silent Voice pilot chapter ran as a one-shot manga in Weekly Shonen Magazine, which then went on to become a full series. In 2009, she debuted as a mangaka with the manga adaptation of a novel by Tow Ubukata, Mardock Scramble (vol.1-7 available from Kodansha Comics). In 2008, a pilot manga of A Silent Voice won the 80th Annual Shonen Magazine Newcomer Manga Award. What led her to make that manga? Here, the creator of the Eisner-nominated manga series reveals her innermost thoughts for the first time.īorn in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1989. Most would-be mangaka aspire to going pro around that age, but what made Oima special was that she had a full story already in mind and the determination to tell it to the world. Yoshitoki Oima was only eighteen years old when she first started work on A Silent Voice.
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