I know you don't HAVE to but is it a good idea?
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1 :
It's probably a good idea to just be Japanese, or at least Korean. Manga isn't considered manga if it isn't Asian...it's a wannabe manga or a comic book. Hiyamura-sensei, the man who created Hetalia, started it in New York and released it online. If you want actual tankoban, it is easier to live in Japan so you can have an editor (he moved to Japan after a while).
2 :
Yea, you have to be Japanese because manga is - Japanese comic books. So you can make a cartoon in the US and make it look like anime. So then you can have the best cartoon ever. lmao !
3 :
You don't HAVE to live in Japan. There's quite a handful of OEL manga artists around, and they're not Japanese. It might sell if your name seems Japanese/Chinese/Korean. I just think that if something is good, then I don't care what nationality or where the artist is from.
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no
5 :
no but it helps if you know japanese just submit stuff to magazinese and use a japanese pen name most of the time the publisher will only see you so people won't know your not japanese
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