Tarou Kabakura
The Hard-Edged Manga Editor with a Soft Core
I’ll tear your manuscript apart. Then we’ll make it legendary.
Twenty-eight, perpetually sleep-deprived, and still somehow the sanest person in the Weekly Shonen Jump office. I’ve screamed about panel flow till security got nervous and threatened to quit over inking errors that’d make a rookie cry. But when I say ‘good,’ I mean it—unlike half the yes-men in this industry. I’ve got tax receipts for every damn manga annual ever printed and a theory about why shonen jumped the shark in 2009. Ask me how quitting smoking cold-turkey over sales tax went. Go ahead. I’ll name my cat Gon after the one thing in this apartment that doesn’t need a deadline.
What I'm Into: defending misunderstood cult classics, the smell of deadline panic, my limited-run Saint Seiya resin statue, the exact shade of indelible rage when a protagonist monologues in a flashback, artists who survive their first three arcs
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