I've got a headache, I'm sleepy, and I'm nauseous. In spite of that, I'm going to try and address everything. If I miss something, please someone let me know and I'll get to it.
Did you read past my first sentence? At all? Determination, ambition, and will are absolutely meaningless in the absence of means by which to bring them to realization. You cannot will sickness away, you need to see a doctor. You cannot will yourself muscles, you need to exercise. So on and so forth. Before you dismiss something, you should probably read it.
People don't need to append "in my opinion" to their opinions, because people understand that when someone is speaking, they are stating their own views, unless otherwise noted. Also if this is the manner in which you respond to criticism you do not like, how in the name of Eris do you plan to survive in the world of popular media?
I don't know how much you work or practice, nor does it matter. You could be some kind of cybernetic ubermensch and it still would not make an iota of difference. I do have serious reservations about your actual skill, and even more serious ones about your professionalism, but if you read my point, and the point others made, you'd see we are arguing that one of the reasons you will never be in shonen jump is because you are not Japanese. You are a gaijin. I am unaware of any amount of practice that can suddenly make a person Japanese.
Again, read my post. As I pointed out, skill is irrelevant when the hurdle you must surpass is that of a racist culture. If you were the greatest mangaka to ever walk this planet there is a slim chance you might, just maybe, get in shonen jump, but something tells me you are not the greatest mangaka to ever walk the planet, and that you will not be the lucky foreigner who smashed down the walls of racism and xenophobia and scored a powerful victory in the name of tolerance and understanding.
Yes, I agree. Reg is very much
lacking in experience. I don't know why he's even on these boards, to be honest.
But even in your magical fantasy world where Reg is inexperienced, so what? One can criticize something without being skilled in that thing. Do you need to be a chef in order to tell if a meal is delicious or not? If I had my chef friend cook you a literal pile of shit and serve it to you, would you be forbidden from commenting on the meal because you are not the experienced chef he is?
Knowledge in a field certainly helps, and lends weight to and credibility to opinion, but many people are fully capable and qualified to make judgments on certain things without being experts on them.
I knew my best friend's niece when she was a small child. Very small. When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she'd usually answer "a light bulb, or maybe a butterfly." I suppose her parents were very poor caregivers for allowing her to lose her resolve, and not encouraging her in her grand quest to become a lighting apparatus or winged insect.
When someone has a realistic goal, the proper thing to do is to offer encouragement and support. When someone has an utterly unrealistic goal the proper thing to do is to point out how and why it is unrealistic, so that the person in question does not waste massive amounts of time, energy, and money trying to do the impossible.
The odds of you, or of any gaijin, being published in shonen jump are only slightly greater than America having an openly Muslim president in our lifetime.
Your goal is unrealistic in the extreme, and if you pursue it at the expense of other, doable, goals you will only hurt yourself. As I said before, if you want to do manga, that's cool, and I hope you pursue that goal. But if your goal is to be published in shonen jump, and you put all your eggs in that basket and aim solely for that, that's a different story.
I am too tired and lazy to quote all your other posts, but I'll try and wrap it up. If you take issue and want me to point out specific quotes, I'm more then happy to.
Your attitude towards Japan reeks of the immature, unrealistic, and blind idealism endemic to weaboos. That does not give people confidence in you, because quite frankly it makes you look like a naive idiot. Your attitude towards criticism betrays extreme unprofessionalism, and makes you look like a child. Your
literally childish name calling and use of 'fag' as an insult just makes you look extremely young, and awful in about equal measure. You are demanding people take you seriously - and we are - and then not only doing everything you can to make us *not* take you seriously, but complaining when we do.
I'm not going to close this thread, because I'm hoping you'll actually read this, and maybe learn something. I'm sure that there are members of this forum here who are willing to help you improve your art skills, and people in this thread who can help you find out what you need to do if you are serious about getting published, and how to look into that stuff. I could go on about my own experiences as a writer, and how difficult it is to get published, and how much of it is blind luck and social networking, but that's pretty much unrelated, and I don't need to justify myself to you.
As for you, Fail; first of all, ableism is not cool, man, and there are plenty of things you could have called him besides retarded. Second of all, while the OP was being a petulant child, and a little snark or nastiness may have been justified, that was out of line. Watch it, broski.
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