CATDOLL: JUMP's three major cartoonists' working hours revealed: to be famous you have to work hard

Japan is a country of animation. The comics and animation industry accounts for a large proportion of the economy, and there are a lot of people working in the industry. Therefore, the competition pressure for the profession of cartoonist is very high, and not all cartoonists can stand out. Even popular cartoonists have to work hard to succeed. Recently, the work schedules of the three most popular cartoonists of "Jump" magazine, Eiichiro Oda, Masashi Kishimoto, and Akira Toriyama, were exposed. We can see that these three cartoonists almost work non-stop when drawing comics. After seeing their work schedules, you will suddenly understand why Togashi stopped publishing when he had nothing to do...

Oda Eiichiro

I usually go to bed at 2am and wake up at 5am. Apart from eating, I work all the time. In terms of the work schedule for a week, I have to think about the storyboards for the comics in the first half of the week. After the storyboards are arranged, I start drawing the manuscripts. After the manuscripts are submitted, I still have to work on the single volume. I almost have no holidays. Specifically, I think about the storyboards from Monday to Wednesday, draw the manuscripts from Thursday to Saturday, and draw the covers of various Jump projects on Sundays.

Masashi Kishimoto

During the creation of "Naruto", he only slept three hours a day from Monday to Thursday when drawing the original manuscript, and only slept six hours a day on Friday and Saturday when thinking about the plot. He rested on Sunday and only ate two meals a day on average. Masashi Kishimoto worked 19 hours a day, and worked 11 hours when thinking about the storyboard, and so on. It feels like he is really kryptonian. No wonder when the manga "Naruto" was finished, Kishimoto said he wanted to have a good rest...

On the day of the line drawing operation, you will experience a total of 19 hours of hard work facing the machine. 6-9: sleep; 9-13: work; 13-14: eat; 14-23: work; 23-24: eat and take a bath; 24-30: work. This intensity is really not something that ordinary people can bear.

Akira Toriyama

Akira Toriyama's weekly work schedule is similar to that of Eiichiro Oda, with storyboards from Monday to Wednesday and original drawings from Thursday to Sunday. When he was serializing "Arale" and "Dragon Ball", Akira Toriyama's sleep and work schedules were almost chaotic. When serializing "Dragon Ball", Akira Toriyama once set an amazing record of doing storyboards for half a day, drawing original drawings for half a day, and completing a manga in one day.

After learning about the arduous creative process of cartoonists, fans expressed their opinions: "They have enough money to spend their whole lives easily", "Araki Hirohiko is so scary for getting up at 10 am and going to bed at 11 pm when publishing weekly, and taking two days off a week", "You make money, but in return you lose time and life". It seems that cartoonists are really a high-risk profession that requires hard work and kryptonian. I hope that teachers can find more time to rest after working hard, because you really can't afford to waste time like this. Togashi said "Haha"...