So everyone calls her Aunt Niu. Aunt Niu's love for cows can be said to be unparalleled in the animation industry. She signed with cows and took selfies with them, because Aunt Niu grew up in a world surrounded by cows. Aunt Niu's painting style is true, natural and unpretentious, with a warmth like mother earth, or a frankness and gentleness like a farmer's aunt.
When someone asked her why the characters in the novel were all round buns, Aunt Niu solemnly replied: "The painting is too thin, just as pitiful as not having enough to eat!"
Hiromu Arakawa:
Arakawa had a relatively difficult time before he became famous. She is faced with the problem of inheriting the family business. She agreed with her family that she would do farm work until she was 25 years old before her brother's way out was determined. At the age of 25, Arakawa contributed to the monthly magazine Juvenile Angang, and won the 9th Juvenile Angang Comic Award for his short story Stray Dog, making his official debut.
After winning the prize, Arakawa moved from Hokkaido to Tokyo with the prize money, painted short stories for young Angang while working, and published Shanghai Ghosts in Young Angang in May 2000.
During this period, she also served as an assistant to Hiroshin Sato (the author of Gollum's Magic Circle), drawing cartoons while working as an assistant. This period was Arakawa's hardest day, and it was during this period that Arakawa was trained from an ordinary contributor to a passionate cartoonist. It was during this period that her skills and spirit were honed.
Without discipline, there is no success. On one occasion, Arakawa drew a 60-page short story "The Alchemist of Steel" for the editor. The editor felt that this theme had room for development, so Arakawa developed this short story into a serial, so the first sentence of The Alchemist of Steel appeared in the August 2006 issue of Young Anyang Steel.
In 2004, Arakawa boarded the podium of the 49th comic book award in primary school. Arakawa's struggle is really impressive and worth learning from each of us.