Interview with HIRAKO Waka
Monday, Nov. 1, 2021 11:00 – 11:40 (CET) / 19:00 – 19:40 (JST)
- Interviewee
- HIRAKO Waka
- Interviewer
- Marc BERNABÉ (Director, JMAF Overseas Promotion Manga division)
This interview is conducted in Japanese. If you prefer to listen to Spanish please watch from here.
Interviewee
© Waka Hirako
HIRAKO Waka
After winning the MF Comics Step-up Award, HIRAKO made her professional debut with the one-shot story YISKA (Comic Bridge). She received the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival New Face Award for her first serialized comic, My Broken Mariko.
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YEN PRESS, LLC Official Site
Milkyway Ediciones Official Site
© Waka Hirako
Director’s comment
Exclusive interview with HIRAKO Waka, the creator of My Broken Mariko, one of the most striking manga of recent years and winner of the New Face Award at the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Division. HIRAKO-sensei draws several illustrations especially for this interview.