Make Manga with Misako Rocks!

Q&A with Misako Rocks!

• How long does it take you to come out with one book?
• Oh my god, one book. Okay, let’s say… Bounce Back? Whole year. This one’s a whole year. But you know, coming up with everything, including that? Bounce Back, I spent six years. I know! Takes a long time. Well, that’s, I have a strong passion, emotional feeling to this book, so yeah. Some people spend ten years, though. Mine is six years.
• Do you also do the text? Like, the narrative part of the text?
• Oh, the font or the scripting?
• Yeah, like do you narrate the storytelling?
• Yeah, I write the story, too. I do both.
• Wow, that’s hard to do.
• I know! That’s why I spent six years!
• So what order do you do it in?
• I like doing script first, so I exactly know how the story begins, exactly how the story ends. So I go like, all the conversation, but English is my second language, so it’s my weakness, so sometimes I have to ask my agent, editor— everybody team up and they fix a lot— but I also have test readers, like beta readers, so they read, they give me all their opinions, “We don’t say it like this,” and I’m just like, “Okay, fix, fix, fix!” So yeah, I spend a long time.
• Are you in writing groups or anything?
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  Not really. I do have my students and, you know, my Misako Rocks! Instagram followers, so I ask them and I pick them. So for Bounce Back, I think I had almost 70 people reading—the test readers— and they helped me a lot.