New manga artists can be incomes extra for his or her work at Weekly Shonen Bounce.
Weekly Shonen Bounce is Japan’s largest and hottest manga anthology, and writer Shueisha apparently thinks it’s gotten large enough to share somewhat extra of the wealth that the journal brings in. In an announcement made Monday via its official Twitter account, the Weekly Shonen Bounce editorial division mentioned:
“We wish to inform everybody that the minimal manuscript cost for serialized or one-shot manga in Weekly Shonen has been raised, efficient as of November 2024.”
“Primarily based on gross sales earnings obtained from readers of Weekly Shonen Bounce (print and digital editions), we are going to proceed to make such reservations sooner or later with a purpose to produce higher working environments for our journal’s creators.”
【ご報告】
『#週刊少年ジャンプ 』本誌で連載・読切掲載する場合の最低原稿料を24年11月掲載分より改訂しましたので、ご報告させていただきます。読者の皆様からいただいた雑誌(紙版・電子版)の売上利益を基に、弊誌作家さんのより良い執筆環境作りへ今後も改訂を重ねてまいります。 pic.twitter.com/k2krA7V52w
— 少年ジャンプ編集部 (@jump_henshubu) November 18, 2024
Beneath the brand new coverage, artists can be paid a minimal of 31,350 yen (US$206) per shade web page and 20,900 yen per black-and-white web page. The overwhelming majority of manga pages are printed in black-and-white, and assuming a median web page depend of 20 pages per chapter, that might work out to 418,000 yen in earnings per chapter/week, which extends to 1,627,000 yen for a month with 4 points, or round 21.7 million yen for a 52-week yr.
Furthermore, these are the beginning charges for brand spanking new manga creators whose work is being printed for the primary time. For persevering with artists whose sequence is previous its first yr of serialization, Weekly Shonen Bounce gives annual fee will increase, and the journal’s administration is open to negotiation even with first timers if they’ve been provided larger charges from different magazines. First-time serialized authors are additionally supplied with 500,000 yen in funds to assist cowl bills in getting the sequence off the bottom.
Weekly Shonen Bounce sibling publication Bounce Giga concurrently introduced it’s growing its minimal charges as nicely, to 19,800 yen for shade pages and 13,200 for black and white.
Larger beginning pay charges are, in and of themselves, excellent news for budding artists. Nevertheless, it’s additionally essential to take into account that whereas 20 million yen a yr seems like an entire lot, few manga professionals produce a whole sequence by themselves. It’s customary for manga creators to have a number of assistants, and people assistants receives a commission by the creator, not the writer. In different phrases, a large chunk of that 21.7 million yen goes to be going to manufacturing prices. As well as, getting paid by the web page means not getting paid by the hour, which additionally means no paid trip time. As talked about above, 21.7 million yen is the projected cost for 52 weeks of 20-page black-and-white chapters, so if the creator needs, or wants, to take break day, it’s going to come back with a deduction to their earnings.
Because of this, it’s exhausting to say whether or not or not manga creators are in a straightforward spot financially when beginning out with Weekly Shonen Bounce with out figuring out what their different bills and most well-liked work/life stability is like. If nothing else, although, at the least they’re in a neater spot than earlier than the speed elevate.
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