Makoto Tateno - Anime Convention Personality of the Week - October 22, 2006
An
artist must know she's doing something right when she crosses the
Pacific, travels to an unfamiliar place and finds there's a room full
of people who want to sit and watch her draw. That was the scene when
Makoto Tateno traveled to the U.S. and found that there were fans of
her work who were waiting for her, and on both coasts. She first went
to California for a bookstore signing, then headed to Baltimore for a
panel discussion at Otakon. At both locations were fans of Yellow, the
series about two male thieves turned police distributed in English by
June Manga, an imprint of Digital Manga. "A few of my fans were iffy
about my going to yaoi, but then I'm puzzled because there are some
people who can't take the yaoi stuff," Tateno said at Otakon. "But a
lot of my yaoi fans went over and read my shojo titles, too, so it all
worked out." Fans were so enthusiastic about Tateno's work that they
even applauded two of her assistants who were in the Otakon audience,
and were impressed that those assistants help Tateno turn out a 40-page
story in about ten days.
An
artist must know she's doing something right when she crosses the
Pacific, travels to an unfamiliar place and finds there's a room full
of people who want to sit and watch her draw. That was the scene when
Makoto Tateno traveled to the U.S. and found that there were fans of
her work who were waiting for her, and on both coasts. She first went
to California for a bookstore signing, then headed to Baltimore for a
panel discussion at Otakon. At both locations were fans of Yellow, the
series about two male thieves turned police distributed in English by
June Manga, an imprint of Digital Manga. "A few of my fans were iffy
about my going to yaoi, but then I'm puzzled because there are some
people who can't take the yaoi stuff," Tateno said at Otakon. "But a
lot of my yaoi fans went over and read my shojo titles, too, so it all
worked out." Fans were so enthusiastic about Tateno's work that they
even applauded two of her assistants who were in the Otakon audience,
and were impressed that those assistants help Tateno turn out a 40-page
story in about ten days.
