CATDOLL: Japanese cartoonist: Even if you rely on adult comics, you will become poorer and poorer

For anime fans, cartoonists are a noble and sacred profession. It is because of their existence that these anime lovers have more reading materials. On the surface, cartoonists may be a job that is both profitable and enjoyable, but is it really so?

Recently, a Japanese cartoonist with the pen name おじょ advised everyone with his own personal experience that if you want to be a cartoonist, you'd better save enough money first! He originally wanted to make a living by drawing cartoons, but he didn't achieve much success, so he wanted to get rid of poverty by drawing adult cartoons for women, but the more he drew, the poorer he became, and the income tax took away a lot of his original manuscript income.

Ojiyo said: "Before I debuted as an adult cartoonist, I lived on government relief, but even so I still worked hard to draw comics, hoping to get rid of poverty and no longer live on relief by drawing comics. My own comic book was also sold, but I never expected that the money I earned from drawing comics would become a phantom because of paying income tax. Becoming a gorgeous cartoonist is simply a delusion. I really can't make a living by comics, and my hard-earned works are criticized by keyboard parties under e-commerce websites. What else can encourage me to continue drawing? I can't survive even in the countryside. But there are people who are even worse off. Some of them even suffer from depression. Alas, the most important thing for a cartoonist is to save enough money to leave a way out for yourself."

In reality, there are tens of thousands of cartoonists in the world, but only a few can be selected for serialization. Among them, it is already difficult to earn enough living expenses with their own works. Not only that, even if they are successfully serialized, they still have to face the approaching deadline and the dilemma of no fresh inspiration.