Nakayoshi’s youngest ever published mangaka in 26 years is a 14-year-old schoolgirl, and is by all accounts rather good.
3rd year Niigata middle schooler Sato Ito ties with the magazine’s previous record-holder of 26 years past, saying she “is a step closer to her dream and hoping to become skilled in a wide cariety of genres.”
Her debut title “To Aru Neko Kaburi Shounen no Himitsu” – a school love comedy about a boy who wears feline headgear – is to begin serialisation on the second of November in shoujo magazine Nakayoshi.
From when she was 12:
If she’s this good at the age of 14, she has a lot of potential to become amazing in the future. Would be interesting to watch her grow as an artist.
So… before people resume whining about how Japan is a sexist patriarchal society that suppresses women, has any country in the West ever had talented 14 year old published females?
Personally, I think most countries aren’t so much patriarchal as they are run by senile sociopaths who suppress everyone that isn’t friend or family to them, male or female.
I’d bet the most common reason for young talent being suppressed (regardless of country) is because older people often see them as a threat, both to their profession and to their ego. It’s a shame, because any talent could ultimately benefit all of society.
I can only imagine how much hidden talent is overlooked or suppressed every day.
She’s improved since she was 12. Jesus Christ, those eyes!
Bakuman female edition, anyone?
She could be the most skilled mangaka ever, but in the it’s still going to be a Shoujo manga, so I couldn’t give two crap about her.
For some reason, I was expecting a story about a girl collecting little sisters in a post-apocalyptic world.