It’s all about how much you ‘love’ it. What exactly comprises the work of background art designers that support the anime industry?

It was because I often thought “Wow, how weird” when hearing stories from background art designers. I think people in this line of work all have a screw loose somewhere.

It takes up 100% of their daily life, all they think about is drawing.

Sometimes there’re gaps during work where we’re free, we end up drawing anyway (lol)

I’ve always wanted to draw an essay manga. But I wasn’t sure how to go about it objectively, and I decided to take the things around me as a model.

Yeah! Almost everything is based on true stories. Including the one about sleeping in a sleeping bag at the office….

I’m not familiar with the whole of the anime industry, so I’m only illustrating the work of background art designers.

There are certain people I base my stories on. And in real life, there are numerous females in the background art industry. And many pretty ones too!

Hmm, something funny usually pops up when talking to background art designers, so I just dig in to the root of it to base my stories around it. It isn’t that hard.

I tend to say nonsensical things….

Or how they often take pictures of things that normal people wouldn’t give notice to. Like rusty billboards or narrow alleys.

These are things common to background art designers, like how no one looks at the cherry blossoms when cherry blossom viewing, but instead like paying more attention to the moldy wall behind.

Speaking of which, I didn’t have a single photo of the cherry blossoms...!

For example when looking out of the train, we might think “5 layers huh…. That’s tough”.

First is the electric pole, the next is the couple of houses, the following one is the several houses behind… we split the scenery into various layers, with the furthest one the still mountain in the background…!

Normal people don’t do that (lol)

I have an on and off switch for work, and focus on a balance between speed and quality. I think most people are like this.

But background art designers really rush till the last minute.

Everyone loves drawing, but it’s hard to sustain even your passion for so long, so I think it’s really amazing.

Thank you (blush) Work is tough, but I love it!

The stories currently released mostly feature the anime industry and background art designing as a job, but I’d like to add more of a human touch to it. When the job gets hard, and they run into dead ends…. There’re even stories that are hard for myself to draw.

But I want to let readers know that no matter how tough the situation, the people producing animes are full of the resolve to commit double suicide with their art.