The Weekly Shonen Jump rejected draft of Hajime Isayama’s Shingeki no Kyojin prototype one-shot manga has been revealed by Kodansha.
Before being picked up for publication by Kodansha, Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan, as it is known in the west, had been rejected by Weekly Shonen Jump for its less than stellar artwork and a plot that was seemingly all over the place.
Now, over nine years later Kodansha has published the full first one-shot draft of Jinrui VS Kyojin (Humanity vs. Titan) which won the Fine Work award at Kodansha’s Magazine Grand Prix contest.
The whole 68-page one-shot manga can now be read at Kodansha’s Debut website in Japanese.
If I were the editor at that time, I will also reject this work. The idea is okay but the art is……low..
You obviously do not know anything about the different steps to create a manga…
well, I really wanna read about the “different steps” processes from a wanna be pro. I m waiting…..
In the view of editor and doing business, sellable or not at that moment is more important in my view. I agree about the idea is good but that all. there are many 19 with the better drawing.
Haaa? What do you mean ‘revealed’? This thing has been available online for years. I read it ages ago. I think the friction igniting katanas were a cool idea, but only cool.
Just as bad as the current series
I feel like I’ve read this ages ago.
Why is this relevant? It was rejected for a reason.
Is it a two-man project, and this is to show how it was before he got an artist?
It’s not a 2-man project. The artist just got better and tried again and again until he got published by Kodansha. I guess it’s to show you should not give up even if your art sucks.