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NataliaBatista

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I'm a Swedish mangaka, active since 2006. Member of the Swedish mangaka group Nosebleed Studio. My manga Sword Princess Amaltea har been published in Sweden, USA, Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic. I have made more than 1600 pages of manga, most of them published in books or anthologies and some of them online. I also teach about manga, storytelling and comics, and organize zine events and comic projects for the community.
  • My homepage： http://natalia.batista.se
  • My Instagram： https://www.instagram.com/nataliasmanga/
  • My Youtube： http://www.youtube.com/MangaNatalia
  • Nosebleed Studio： http://www.Nosebleed-Studio.com
  • Sword Princess Amaltea： http://www.SwordPrincessAmaltea.com
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  • Work Place：Malmö,Sweden
  • Gender：Female

Life Event

  • 06/2007 GradutatedfromtheComicArtSchoolinMalmö,Sweden Graduated
  • 02/2010 Mjau!publishedinSweden
  • 09/2013 SwordPrincessAmalteavol1publishedinSweden
  • 03/2018 SwordPrincessAmalteapublishedbyTOKYOPOP

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  • Favorite music

    Metal + Electronic + Viking

  • Future goals

    Never stop making manga

  • What you eat when hungry

    Pasta!

  • Software

    CLIP Studio Paint

CREATOR RANK CREATOR NataliaBatista 4 years ago
How I got a Japanese manga editor Part 4

Right outside, after this surreal meeting with editor Y-san at the Ribon Editorial Office in the Shueisha building in March of 2010, I started plotting a shojo manga story with my friends. Something that could be relatable for both me and Japanese girls... something that I could make that still would matter to them.
I flew home and started working on a manga one shot called Circus Romantique. Karin (a common name in both Sweden and Japan) is a clown at a circus, with a secret crush on the trapeze artist Jon. It's a story about not feeling worthy or talented enough to fit in with your peers. I made this character design illustration, to ask my new Japanese editor Y-san for her advice. This is part of the email she sent me, where she first talked about the picture, then (in English) gave me passionate feedback about the plot I had written. She suggested to make Karin and Jon become trapeze artists together, and that she should become a Circus Princess! She also suggested that I would try to make Karin's hair long, because that would look beautiful when she is up in the air jumping.
She finished with this part in Japanese, which is about how she wish I will make a debut in Ribon one day, how the next step is the namu (storyboards) and that I should take her suggestions and use them as I wish. She also says young women should smile when they read my manga.
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CREATOR RANK CREATOR NataliaBatista 4 years ago
How I got a Japanese manga editor Part 3

Tokyo 2010, Shueisha's office building. We got out of the elevator on the Ribbon Editorial Office floor, and editor Y-san led us all the way up to the Editor-in-chief! This felt like a surreal dream, as we all bowed to him. (Later, I analysed this situation and I think the fact that I sent them a manga published in Sweden by a publisher, with a barcode on the back, made them feel like I was a respected mangaka in my home country, perhaps?) He then stood up, took out a folder from his top desk drawer, opened it up and handed over to me a pile of manga original pages from one of their top artists in the magazine!! I stood their, held them and said "Kakoii desu" or something similar (yes, my Japanese was not the best, but I made an effort to show my utter amazement over the situation, without seeming weird). I carefully returned the artworks to the Editor-in-chief.
After bowing and thanking, editor Y-san and one of her colleagues showed us to a meeting room where we sat down to talk. Thanks to my interpreter friend M, I could show them a manga I had with me, that I had translated with the help from some other friends back home in Sweden. The manga's name is Walpurgis and it is about a girl meeting her secret crush at the Swedish traditional Spring bon fire. They read it through (only 13 pages) and gave me feedback on the spot on what they though was lacking in the work. It still felt surreal, everything, but I enjoyed every moment of it, knowing that this feedback is invaluable coming from people who've worked in the Japanese manga industry for many years.
At the end of the meeting, the editors suggested that Y-san would become my editor via email, and that I could start making manga one shots for their monthly rookie contest Ribon Manga School! It was surprising and we all left the meeting with a feeling of amazement. I had a Japanese editor!!!
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