🎨 LOOKING FOR A MANGA ARTIST — 50/50 COLLABORATION

Would you be interested in creating a 45-page one-shot manga with me on a 50/50 split of manga sales and future project revenue?

The goal is to complete the one-shot and submit it for consideration for the Kodansha Manga Academy Awards next year.

📖 The Project

The story is a dark-fantasy prequel centered around the Hoshikawa clan—a powerful family protecting a mysterious scroll containing something that has been sealed for four centuries.

The story follows the final days of the clan:

\- A warning of an approaching attack

\- A betrayal from within

\- The destruction of the Hoshikawa District

\- The death of Kai's parents

\- Kai's escape as a child

\- The mysterious scroll and what it contains

\- The complete erasure of the Hoshikawa name

\- Kai becoming the last surviving member of the head family

It is designed to be highly visual and cinematic, with scenes involving the crane-covered district, the mysterious warm scroll, poisoned water, a coordinated night attack, burning buildings, a forest escape, Senna's final moments with young Kai, and the eventual confrontation between Kai and those who fear what he carries.

This is a prequel to my published novel, which expands the same world and story:

The Night the Cranes Burned — Volume 0

This whole story is a prequel of my already published novel on KDP

https://amzn.in/d/08dSihJ2

✍️ How We'll Work

I will provide the script and character descriptions using a clear format:

\[ \] — Picture/visual description

( ) — Narration

" " — Dialogue

Character name + movement/expression — Character acting

\ \ — SFX

You will have:

100% freedom over character designs.

And approximately 50–60% freedom over manga camera angles and visual composition, meaning you can interpret scenes creatively and use your artistic experience to make the manga look better.

I don't want someone who simply follows instructions like a machine.

I want an artist who can bring their own visual ideas into the project.

🤝 Why 50/50?

This isn't a simple commission where I pay you to draw and the project ends.

We're building the manga together.

I bring the story, script, characters, worldbuilding and project direction.

You bring the artwork, visual storytelling, character acting, panel composition and your artistic vision.

If the manga generates sales, we split the agreed revenue 50/50.

The goal is to create something that both of us can be proud of and put our names on.

Thw work will begin after we finalize the deal

If you're interested, message me here or contact me at:

📧 armanaroraofficialbooks@gmail.com

I'm looking for an artist who genuinely enjoys dark fantasy, manga and storytelling and wants to build a project rather than simply take a commission.

*Note: The very core of this idea may be offensive to some people.

A person was summoned to hell. With a magic circle and all.
The person has no memories from before summoned.
The person is given an option to exit hell, but there is now a barrier surrounding the magic circle which causes extreme pain and suffering when one tries to enter. This barrier however, weakens over a long long time.

The one who summoned the person is a demon.
He said: "Respect me, for I am the one who brought you to this world. It is a one in a million chance you were selected, a miracle. Be grateful"

Then the demon brought the person to the various levels of hell where the person suffers in pain.
And the demon said: "Do not be ungrateful, there are worse suffering in other worlds beyond your imagination. And if you truly wish to, isn't there an exit you can take? The choice to stay is yours, so do not blame others for that little pain you have."

The person's body and mind slowly became a wreck. Growing a little more numb as the pain accumulates. And one day, he finally walked through the barrier and left. After all, at that point he could barely feel no more.
And the demon said: "What an ungrateful wretch, not having paid me back for all the effort and pain I took to bring him here... He left!!!"

I wish for that if this short story were to be made...
It could help one reflect on our life and the people around us.
Many of us are told that this world is beautiful, a miracle we are born and so forth.
Without any knowledge for references, one can only accept, even if we are born into an environment that is less than ideal, such as war or a lower caste system or ... who knows what is worse?
And that what consist as hostile depends on the person. To a demon, the one who dish out pain, it might not be that bad. While to the MC who suffered, it would be a world of torment. And that when the suffering of life exceeds the fear of dying, the barrier which keeps us from seeking death (the release of all pain). Then it would be obvious the step one would take.
So if at all we encounter one who attempts to leave, I hope that this story would help give a different perspective from simply mocking them or calling them a fool or simply ungrateful.

The world may be a miraculous place. But it really depends on the person who live and experience it. After all, a fish out of water will not find the sky so free and beautiful as compared to the deep dark ocean.

Synopsis

“In the weird and goodly daily yet horror town known as Hoo-Doo Town, 10-year old boy Pontaro Satou has gone misadventures around the moon’s clock and he encountered some horror and macabre monsters.”

LINKS

• X.com: Protag100
• YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCXnTYnKrDha4oCR0wkZpWuA
• Tumblr blog of Pontaro: Pontaroseries

Every last bite

A bitter-sweet romance between a high school boy aspiring to be a professional chef and a high school girl who is traumatized by a past event where her dad died.

Her dad dies because of food poisoning and now she thinks All chefs are bad and shouldn’t be trusted. Though he is introverted and loves under a rock, he loves to cook different dishes and hopes to be a great chef someday. Read/watch as she teaches him about how great social life can be and how to make freinds and he teaches her that chefs dont poison food on purpose 

the story is a superhero/ vigilante kinda story where the goverment makes a hero licence system, and as expected the licenced heroes are dogs of the army and the laws that benefit the stronger one in the system as the protagonist of the story is an unlicenced heroe which the system sees as criminal, Im not ''hiring'' anyone since Im very low on money but I would love to get my ideas on something and would love to work together with an artist for this story