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I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

I love comic books and I love anime.

I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it.

I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I'm perfectly happy that they are doing things online, reading there as opposed to traditional print magazines.

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.

I've always loved Japanese legend, anime and manga.

I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.

I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.