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THEME1
What should be exported is not the work but the grammar of manga making.
"The aspect of being an editor's research institute and a manga research institute is becoming stronger."
─── What kind of parts are you currently focusing on as Coamix?
Horie: The company as a whole is working on training editors.Now we are focusing on thoroughly refining the editing skills of our staff.
─── Coamix is unique in that it has only a manga-related business, isn't it?
Horie: We have been making manga for a long time.I myself have been doing it for about 40 years.Therefore, you can accumulate editing technology.Therefore, I think that the aspects of "editor's research institute" and "manga research institute" are becoming stronger now than publishers.
─── Is it “research”?
Horie: In fact, by conducting joint research with a research team at a certain university, we will conduct research on human emotional mechanisms, brain waves, biological reaction experiments, etc., in order to scientifically verify the manga that is really sought after. We are working on it.
─── Do you mean incorporating systematic logic into the process of making manga by manga artists and editors?
Horie: That's right.Ask for reason in everything and put it into words.It can be explained in words.It is very important for editors to hone their words. I think it is necessary to be able to give advice on drama making based on proper reasoning rather than "intuition."
─── For that reason, you are focusing on training editors.
Horie: The reason is that Japan should export to overseas not the manga work itself, but the grammar of manga making.Therefore, it is very important to have the skill to understand the grammar and explain it in words.
───I hear that Japanese manga works have been hit to a certain extent overseas.
Horie: Of course, if you look only at the numbers, there may be works that can be called hits.However, I think it will be a different way of thinking as to whether it will be established as an industry in that country.After all, it is ideal that the people of that country use the language of that country and draw something for the people of that country as a hit.If that happens in many countries, the horizons of manga culture will expand.For that reason, I think that theory and theory are necessary.