Always appreciate how vocal you are about standing up for creators against big comics, was wondering if you knew much about how creators are taken care of in Japan by comparison to the US big 2. I feel like there's much more new original content in manga c

A lot of the mainstream Shonen stuff I’ve read about seems like a scene I wouldn’t like. but that said, I do get the idea that creators and assistants are mostly treated quite well. (aside from the sometimes crazy work schedules)  I do feel like after DBZ mainstream Shonen books really boiled down how to make these long Naruto length epics, that (in my option) take wayyy too much story control from editors and reader suggestions. 

There’s so much stuff being made in Japan though I imagine that there is every range of the spectrum.

 I remember being really annoyed reading Bakuman- It was like a guide to how to be a sell out – mixed with some misogyny. but then there’s stuff like the work of Naoki Urasawa, that changed a lot of my ideas on how storytelling and  (via his

the documentaries) even how the production of comics can work. It changed around how I felt about both plotting of stories and the value of the studio system in some comics.

All that said, I’m not really that deep in a lot of my understanding of the behind the scenes stuff in most manga. I’ve never even been to that continent.