Hideki Arai Opens Website to Publish Rejected Manga Storyboards
Arai is turning rejected storyboards and unpublished material into public content, opening his creative process to readers.
Reporting from 1 source: KAI-YOU.
Manga artist Hideki Arai, known for "Miyamoto kara Kimi e" and "The World Is Mine," launched the website "Arai Hideki no Name de Baku" on September 4. The site will publish unpublished storyboards, unreleased manuscripts, and fragments of works. Arai said the trigger was wanting to publish rejected names out of frustration. He also plans to publish childhood works, self-commentary and corrections of past works, and his own manga theory.
The site is framed as a place for "play" that his main manga work cannot express. Arai is considering serializing storyboards and continuing unfinished works, though he said he will not limit the format to publishing a story in order from the start. He may release scenes and fragments as they come to him. On future updates, he admitted that immediate storyboard serialization is difficult, but he is weighing concrete explanations of past manuscripts and self-corrections. The site is meant to show what a manga artist thinks, what he fixes, and how he assembles a work, things finished pages do not make visible.
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