Hidden within the backs of magazines, placed within the margins, and found on the inner flaps of manga volumes are short comments directly from the authors of the manga series. While most manga artists live private lives, these short comments can help show a little bit of light on their personal feelings and events in their life.
As part of an on-going project we will attempt to collect as many of their comments as possible along with the context on when they were said. For comments mentioned in magazines, these are never reprinted so they may be difficult to find and keep track of. While we will attempt to be as accurate as possible, centralizing this information will be time-consuming process and pages will be updated once the comments have been gathered.
Documented here are a rough English translation. The comments are often very short and can be translated differently. We hope that these will provide you with a general sense of the comments being made and should not be taken as “direct quotes” from any of the manga artists. If any errors are made, we will make our best efforts to correct those.
We have broken up the author comments into several pages across the various “eras” that they were published under. We have also included other series not specifically drawn by Hiroyuki Takei but were under his supervision.
When new pages are created links will be updated on this page. As this will take some time to complete this project, placeholders are currently setup with the titles in grey.
Sheuisha Era (1997-2018)
Butsu Zone (Weekly Shonen Jump & volumes)
Shaman King (Weekly Shonen Jump)
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Shaman King (volumes)
Jyuki Ningen Jumbor (Weekly Shonen Jump)
Jumbor (Ultra Jump)
Ultimo (Jump SQ, Jump SQ19, & Jump Crown)
Shogakukan Era (2013+)
Danball Senki: Gaiden (Corocoro G & volume)
Hyper Dash! Yonkuro (volumes)
MINI4KING (Corocoro Magazine)
Kodansha Era (2019+)
Shaman King (35 volume edition)
Shaman King: & a Garden (Nakayosi)
Nekogahara, Shaman King: The Super Star, Shaman King: Red Crimson, and Shaman King: Marcos, and Shaman King: Faust 8 – The Eternal Eliza do not have any author comments in the magazines or in the volume editions of the manga series.