yes
Should a mangaka prioritize what he wants to write or what the fans want him to write?
Ethan Moore
Daniel Wood
I know you think are making a point, but you aren't.
Angel Fisher
I mean, just look at starwars. Random authors know everything better than Lucas himself.
Charles Bennett
should a mangaka make multiple endings and call them all canon?
Parker Rodriguez
No. Why should he? Do people really do this? Did people do this BEFORE the internet?
Liam Lopez
>His zeal in the cause of our art was far greater than mine - it was as the burning sun to my taper light - mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for manga, but he could die for it. The crown of genius is high, far beyond the reach of ordinary mortals, and yet happily no special greatness or aesthetic excellence is necessary to discern and in some measure appreciate a truly great artist. Cold, calculating and unsophisticated as most of us are, we are not wholly insensible to real greatness; and when we are brought in contact with a man of commanding ability, towering high and alone above the millions, free from all conventional fetters, true to his own artistic convictions, a "law unto himself," ready to suffer misconstruction, ignoring criticism and doubt for what he believes to be beautiful, we are compelled to do him homage.
- Naoki Urasawa on Togashi
David Lewis
You need to balance. Prioritize what you want, but check what the fans want as well. If you only do what you want to do you will not get popular, but if you only do what the fans want you will end up with a mess because fans don't always know what they want.
Luke Torres
What the fans want is almost always worse, because fans don't understand character arcs, proper storytelling or themes.
They just care about powerlevels.
Xavier Harris
If all the girls are good and fluffy like in Bokuben, then yes.
Brandon Perez
It can still be a good idea to use your fans for ideas, by taking from them any actually good ideas that they can come up with.