Biografia

One thing that's really important to me when I'm creating manga is to think about the tempo of the story. Not just the tempo inside the story but the rhythm of the real world if this manga was happening in real life. I think that a comfortable rhythm differs for each person, and this is the comfortable rhythm for me. I don't actually compose music myself, but I do try to draw my storyboards like I'm composing music. I think about the flow of the rhythm and the tempo of the storyline a lot.

I do think that whether you set a story in the past, say, in the Sengoku Era, or if you decide to start a story in the future, the important thing is what kind of people live there? What kind of lifestyle are they leading? What kind of changes are they undergoing? What kind of growth are they undergoing? What are they obtaining throughout their lives? I feel like that's the important part of the story, and that's the part that I want to draw as a manga artist.

It's fine to think that you want to become something, but then the question is, how would you become that thing? That part is a mystery even to myself.

If "After the Rain" is about my past emotions, and all these things that I loved were thrown into that work, "Kowloon Generic Romance" is basically the present, with a little bit of the future.