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■ Today, there are many essay manga comics at stores. How about them?

Y: Ah, I hardly read them. I guess, however, all essay cartoons on mercantile magazines are amusing, because commercial ones use. No interest in them I have. I, myself, am unmarried and read essay cartoons about child care…


(C) Yuki Masami, Kadokawa
"Monthly Newtype" 2005 December Issue
■ No use. LOL Sure, increased is essay manga like how-to books. In that sense, yours is…

Y: Useless, texts of nothing. From 2005 December issue to 2006 March one, I described my own history. That must be a kind of reminiscences by the aged. What on earth do readers learn with the stories? LOL


■ It might work for giving them something real in old days, with a bias. How about you? Don’t you rediscover what you longed to write at that time?

Y: Hmmm… There are some manga artists who say they can write what they want to on coterie magazines, aren’t there? Such writers are admirable, I reckon, since I have nothing to desire to describe in my mind. Other products and events in the world have inspired me with something to express.


■ I got it. In your essay, you say “patlabor” was born when you watched other robot programs like the Gundam and guessed “there must be robots not to destroy something.”

Y: Yes. So it is lucky that such a manga artist has survived with works on commercial magazines.


■ That is because your works are amusing, based on your theory that what mercantile magazines use is interesting. Moreover, when you have been inspired by external impulses and created your works, your ultimate one must be “Yuki Masami’s Never Ending Story,” because you have written and illustrated the tales, inspired by anything around you. How?

Y: Well, it is alright when amusing to the readers. I am an old manga artist who has not written any cartoons for particular people based on marketing.


■ Have you thought you would desire to stop “Yuki Masami’s Never Ending Story?”

Y: I had 3 months for disappearance before. I was too busy for another comic strip on a weekly magazine at the time, to carry on. I guessed I had to stop. However, “Monthly Newtype” has used mine since the foundation, and I thought it over. I decided to go again, have run and will make it next month again.


This year again, come has the season that a cold wind blows through the yellowed trees lining streets and bloom hollies and fatsia japonicas. But no matter how beautiful flowers come out, they are named by mankind, not flowers themselves. Likewise, it can be considered Yuki Masami has only tried to write something amusing, not intending to make an essay comic. Then, other people happened to call “essay.”

(C) Yuki Masami, Kadokawa
"Monthly Newtype" 2001 November Issue




From the present on, “Yuki Masami’s Never Ending Story” will be continued beside seasons come around and flowers bloom and scatter. Not as “essay,” it is going to be as “manga” longing for entertainment.



Y: This is a situation which Monthly Newtype or Yuki Masami will first disappear. LOL I am willing to go until they say my work is too uninteresting to be published anymore.


Interview & Text by Misaka Yohei
Especial Thanks: Shibata Natsumi (KADOKAWA)

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