A lot of people wonder what being a mangaka is like, but what would be like to be an editor for a manga?

A lot of people wonder what being a mangaka is like, but what would be like to be an editor for a manga?

Positions where you're managing/supervising/directing other people kind of suck, now make those people you're stuck running into creatives and it must be super shit. Leading teams of professional vidya testers was hell, I can only imagine artists would be three times worse.

Not just any artists, workaholic borderline hikikomori artists.

Most manga about making manga include the shit that editors go through too.

being able to be more one-on-one with each might be better than having to manage a team. though its more to juggle too

I imagine being the editor of Nakamura and Nozawa would be exasperating, as they're clearly testing the boundaries of publications every chapter and giggling to themselves.

Like this.

No idea, I would be scared to mess up a manga I really like. Every chapter feels good to read through and I have no complaints, Logic is good and the progression makes sense, but how can I make the writer even better? No idea.

what if you were Murata's editor?

daycare handler/babysitter

Tell him to draw naked Fubuki and Tatsumaki

the fubuki anal sex chapter is long overdue, get to working on it NOW

Tardwranglers, they never get the glory but will also get the blame when shit goes wrong.

It's really simple

Either a tard wrangler losing all his hair to stress or a meddlesome wannabe writer who needs ro learn his place
There's no middle ground

Better question: Who do you think is the worst mangaka to be an editor for?

Gege, Aka, Isayama

And I guess Kurumada in his prime would be even worse

Go read Tokyo Higoro to find out.

One of the mentally ill ones, like the mangaka who ran away to be a homeless person even though he had a wife and kids.

Oda. He's openly said he doesn't listen to either his editors or his fans criticisms. He wants his success and his failures to be solely on him. The only thing he takes advice from his fans about are ideas for the color spreads and the cover art for the front pages, and occasionally a reader will decide some trivial facts about a character, like their birthday, little things that ultimately play no important part of the story in any way,

the mangaka who ran away to be a homeless person even though he had a wife and kids.

well it resulted in his most popular manga so it wasn't too bad

I feel like that would make him the best mangaka to be an editor for.
You can just jerk it all day and still get a paycheck because One Piece is too big to fail.

Bakuman doesn't make me want to be an editor because you're either stuck dealing with retards or someone so competent that they don't really need you.

How is he wrong?
There are a million sports manga out there. But one with espers? Now that's interesting. He just told him his manga sucks because it's boring

take a day off from babysitting him

he's already redrawn the latest chapter 3 times

Okay imagine you're reading the worst arcs of a series. Now imagine them being worse because they're the raw un-tardwrangled versions of that arc.
Like imagine being the editor of Hitman Reborn, you're putting up with some bitch who only got hired because marketing says they want more women reading Jump and she draws femboys and brooding empty shells well. Now imagine how fucking absolute trash the Future Arc was, and then getting a version with no filter, no second thoughts, raw and untouched. Somehow getting a worse Tsuna vs Genshiki IF THAT'S EVEN POSSIBLE.
That's what being an editor is like and yet they get treated like the bad guys.

You can teach the ropes to a promising rookie so you bot get the credit and can coast in the long run

What if the editor filtered out all the good ideas?

Any examples?