Mexico editorials have published several japanese stories, always the ones with most popularity, but they're actually just a few and original content is scarce.
The art of manga has been gaining ground all over the world, so it's no surprise that Tijuana has got on the roller coaster of this japanese tradition.
This new magazine seeks to emulate the work of publishers and Japan Culture by shaping in its pages the drawings of people from all over Mexico and Argentina, keeping the aesthetics of an original manga and how you read it: From right to left.
The name of this product is Manga K, there's just a couple of days left for its outing and it already has a lot of reach in social media, which has made that people in the center of Mexico demand a larger distribution, even in South America. This situation keeps Pier Casas really busy and inspired, while he works with his mag artist team.
Photo: Daniel Esparza/sandiegored.com
Pier is a young 22 year-old man from Tijuana who combined his passion for manga with his International Relations career, which got him ready to defend his ideas, chase his dreams and develop a project that at the beginning, it didn't look much possible.
"A lot of people think that by the simple fact of being born and raised in Mexico you're not capable of making manga, but they're wrong. If you keep the right aesthetics and the respect towards the culture and to the original artist, then any drawer can feel free of developing the genre they like the most."
The project started to take shape a couple of years ago, when he took classes of Japanese at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), where he started to share his ideas about anime and manga with his classmates. The worry about the future made him take a decision and the idea of his magazine was more real than ever.
Pier Casas Maldonado. Photo: Daniel Esparza/ sandiegored.com
"I was in sixth semester and thought "Damn, I just graduated and now I'll have to work in an office from 7 to 7 with a boss always telling me what to do, without having any time for my projects?"… and that's when it hit me, I know what I like and I will dedicate myself to it."
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Later on, he decided to build a business plan, which was carried out with the help of the Faculty of Accounting and Administration and the collaboration of experts from Coparmex; after that he officially registered the magazine and started his dream with some dynamics on Facebook, took a hold of many contacts and through social media he found some mangakas -creators of manga- that would work with him in this project.
The sponsors took him seriously thanks to a well done business plan. Pier gathered enough resources for publishing and now there's 4 magazines waiting in line to get out to the world. The stories included are pure original content: Sword, Magic Shoujo Lovers, Kuroi Hoseki, Fenix Harvest and Body Motion.
D'Volada, Arcadia Games, Otaku Anime Cafe and the drawing utensils store called Elemental Studio, have created a business bond with the magazine; so now, Pier has to find a way of keeping the quality of Manga K, so it could leave a mark in Mexico's manga artists.
"I want Manga K to make a change. I don't want it to be a one of those mags that barely survives and publishes any drawings. Quality first. We can't promise we'll be perfect, but we'll definitely be better every edition."
If you want to know more about Manga K, click here,
or here
You can buy the magazine at:
-Arcadia Games- Macro Plaza
-Otaku Anime Cafe- Zona Centro
-Elemental Studio-Hipodromo
-Plaza de la tecnologia- Manga Pluz TJ-Zona Centro
-D'Volada- Altabrisa (to the right side of UABC)
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Translated by: cristina.mora@sandiegored.com
