Is Japan losing out to China in the manga industry, too? Editor Takashi Hayakawa responds to claims that Japan will begin outsourcing artwork to China:

“We pay [young Chinese artist Liu "L-Dart" Chong] exactly the same as we’d pay a starting manga artist in Japan so we didn’t really think of him because he was Chinese.”

(via NTDTV)

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