#but i don’t remember if they ever actually have torikos age or year

[seraphemmes]

guess who’s back with the lesbians ever

#sorawo kamikoshi #toriko nishina #otherside picnic #the sorawo looks so much better for how much less time i spent on her #not my fault i’m used to drawing girls who are wet cats it’s like muscle memory to me #my artish #the age difference is maybe canon depending on if the people online are telling me the truth #but i don’t remember if they ever actually have torikos age or year #the height difference is completely made up by me though #(it’s the height difference between me n the platonic bestie) #but i think it’s what they deserve #short king sorawo and tall queen toriko

[arkus-rhapsode]

My response to Hiro Mashima’s recent interview

So I was going to let this slide as I do all of his interviews, but man oh man... Hiro Mashima just had to be Hiro Mashima. Now you can find the interview here, but man, this fucking guy.

Q=Interview Question M=Mashima

Q:How did you feel the first day you woke up and didn't have to work on Fairy Tail?

M: I was actually kind of lonely and sad, so I started doodling.

Yeah, your twitter has been kinda full lately...

Q: Fairy Tail is relatively new compared to other “classic” manga and anime series, but it is already considered a classic among fans. How does this make you feel?

M: I am really glad to hear that.

No. No. FT is nowhere near classic. It definitely came out in the golden age of manga (Big 3, Toriko, SNK, etc) and is still apart of its era, but I doubt that people will still care for it as much as they do now in 5 years from now.

Q: Both Rave Master and Fairy Tail are fantasy works. Have you ever considered doing something outside of the fantasy genre?

M: I personally just really love fantasy works in general, so if I do a new series, I would like to try to make it fantasy again. Rave Master was about friends saving the whole world, but Fairy Tail is about closer-knit relationships. So if I do another fantasy story, I would like to try a different approach.    

How’s about friends going on a journey and having a point to everything? Y’know what a shounen series is in general.

Q: Have you ever considered revisiting Rave Master?

M: At the autograph sessions, I have been experiencing a lot of people actually requesting characters from Rave Master, but I realize that I have forgotten how to draw a lot of the characters from that series, so it might be hard to revisit it.

Well great to know the thing that made you famous in the first place isn’t worth remembering how to draw. I mean seriously I know it’s been 11 years, but you have to at least remember something

Q: Many comic book artists have said that they know the last page of the series before they start. Was that the case for Fairy Tail?

M: I honestly didn't have any idea what the last scene of the story was like in my mind when I started the series. The fact that I didn't know what was going to happen next was actually the best part of working on this series. For example, when there is a cliffhanger where the characters are in a really tight spot, the fans wonder what is going to happen next? Well, that's actually my question and I really have to think about it.

Dude... You’re the author, it is your job to know this! This isn’t a game that you can just wing it and if it fails you can try again, this is a published series with a large following. You need to do it justice, that is the job of a mangaka.

Q: You have traditionally used more Western influences in your work. What kind of Western work do you draw inspiration from?

M: About 30 years ago in Japan, there was a huge boom of RPG fantasy games, so those are where I got my inspiration from. For example, Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.

No surprises there...

Q: In the world of Fairy Tail, are the magic powers something you inherit or can you obtain them if you work hard enough?

M: In the world of Fairy Tail, if anyone wants to learn a new magic, if they train themselves hard enough, they should be able to. There are a lot of characters who are training themselves to learn a different kind of magic. However, in the guild of Fairy Tail, everybody is collaborating and working together, so most of those characters work on their own talents and refine them so they are able to give more help to the others.

SO Magic is something everyone can use? Then what was the whole point of 90% of the population can’t use magic? Did they just not give a shit about having awesome powers?

Q: I find Zeref very interesting. He isn't your typical bad guy and he is sort of a tragic figure. Why did you decide to make him like that?

M: I didn't want a typical bad guy. I kind of combined all of the elements I had been cultivating and inserted edit into this character, and he became a really highly complex character. 

Then you proceeded to shit all over his character in the final arc. Guess that was the real tragedy.

Q: Everyone likes the female characters in Fairy Tail. They seem to be both strong and sexy at the same time and self-confident. How did you go about making such balanced female characters?

M: This is actually kind of what I like in females. This my personal taste so I inserted it into the character. It's kind of my wish.

Maybe the female characters started out that way, but they sure as shit didn’t stay that way. Lucy became completely pointless in the last arc, Juvia has no personality outside I love Gray, Erza is an unintentional parody of over powered characters, Wendy is a walking Deus Ex Machina, Can needs her dad to solve anything in the end, and Mirajane has zero to any existence in this series.

Q: Is there a particular character you wish you had more time to develop?

M: One of the characters that I think of is Acnologia. In my mind I had a deeper setting for this character. But the story is from the main character's point of view, so I couldn't really do that. I may have some time to explore the story of Acnologia at some point.

No, you can fit in a character’s back story whenever you fucking like. In fact, seeing something from another character’s point of view is important to understand them. Though after seeing that Acnologia is just upset about a girl, I don’t think we need more.

Q: In terms of design, Fairy Tail is unique when it comes to designs.  A lot of the characters change their outfits throughout the series. How do you go about changing the characters’ clothes?

M: Every time I actually make a costume change, there's usually something that I didn't like about the character design so I refresh them. But sometimes I think maybe the previous character design was better so I kind of go back and forth.

Fair enough, you keep their normal look consistent enough.

Q: What Fairy Tail character will you miss the most?

M: There is a character named Brandish. I wish I could draw more of her.

And yet she didn’t make an appearance in the last chapter

Q: In the American comic book industry, it is common for multiple people to work on the same comic. In Japan, one person entirely writes the whole thing. In America, the creators may have died and people are still writing the series. What are your thoughts on this process?

M: One of the great things about American comics is that so many people can work at once to turn it into a movies or different types of comic books or media and that carries over overseas. In terms of manga, it usually one person thinks of the story and everything is centered on that one storyline, so, if there is an opportunity to branch off, that's actually a good thing. In terms of Fairy Tail, a lot of people love the world view of Fairy Tail, so it is actually possible to expand the story into a spin-off taken over by another creator, so it is kind of diversifying the intellectual property.

Yeah surprising how much better it is when it isn’t solely in your

Q: In American spin-offs, they worry a lot about continuity. Did you worry about that over the 11 years you worked on Fairy Tail?

M: I was thinking about it a little bit, but it wasn't the highest priority. It is more important to me to make the story exciting and really portray the emotions of each character. So if the fans find some flaws in the continuity, I am actually excited to know that people are reading that much into it.

Fuck you. No seriously fuck you. Stop being a writer and start being just an artist because that is not the tone of a writer. There are people who would trade their souls just for FT’s popularity or writers who wish they could make this series, and yet you are the one who has it... Go fuck yourself Hiro.

Q: Sometimes in Fairy Tail characters die, but they always come back. Why did you decide to both this?

M: This has to do with the fact that in Rave Master, a lot of characters actually died and it turned out to be a sad story. When you are working on a manga in a magazine, it is up to the reader's polls and feedback whether you can actually stay in the magazine. To be quite honest, the chapters that have the death of a really important character get a lot of reaction. Knowing this, I really wanted to make sure that people don't die in my series.

Yeah but rave was also an infinitely better story. Also that is the sad truth about popularity,but you should always be sure to do what’s good, not what’s popular.

Q: If you were in the world of Fairy Tail and you could have three people on your team, who would it be?

M: Lucy, Erza, and Juvia.

Well now I know what your personal wet dream is...

(There’s more, but I’ve responded to Everything I’v needed to. Hiro Mashima as a person, might not e a bad guy, but Hiro Mashima the author is fucking infuriating)

#hiro mashima #anti hiro mashima #fairy tail