The Vermilion Mask Writer Dr. Poro Explains How the Manga Is Made
Dr. Poro, the writer of The Vermilion Mask, described how the manga is made. He writes the story alone and hands it to his editor, Kimura, who relays it to artist Nabana Naba.
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Why it matters
The interview puts the manga's working method on record: a writer and an artist who met once when the series began and then about once a year, now meeting weekly because anime production started.
Key Facts
- The Vermilion Mask runs in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours and has nine volumes in print in Japan.
- The emaqi manga app carries the first eight volumes of The Vermilion Mask in English.
- Dr. Poro writes The Vermilion Mask and Nabana Naba draws it, with editor Kimura relaying between them.
- Dr. Poro has launched a second series, GOAT'S GAME, in Young King Ours, available in Japanese only.
The series runs in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours and has nine volumes in print in Japan, with the first eight on the emaqi app in English. It is now a television anime.
Dr. Poro first thought up The Vermilion Mask in college and started drawing it to enter a publisher's award, then set the unfinished story aside. He came back to it later, and the manga has run in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours since 2021. The story follows Peru, an apprentice mask maker who sets out to destroy the legendary masks his master once crafted, and Sona, a runaway princess who joins him, in a world where masks give their wearers supernatural abilities. Poro has since started GOAT'S GAME in the same magazine, available in Japanese only.
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- Anime News Network EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Poro, the Manga Writer Behind The Vermilion Mask