One shot ?

[Kuffen]

So I heard that there was a one-shot version of this manga? (1 chapter only)
Anyone know anything about this?
Perhaps a link to a site where you can read it?

Thanks.

[BishopWhite]

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/ge_good_ending/c000/

[n0c0ntr0l]

http://allmymanga.com/Good_Ending/

better quality than mangafox.

[Kuffen]

Awesome, Thank you guys.

[Chido.]

I'm pretty sure that majority of manga that start with one-shot always being put at first chapter before the manga right ?

[Neuron96]

Not always. For a first timer I believe that is normal. You submit a one shot for a competition. After you are an established mangaka you submit a few chapters for a new series and the editorial staff decides if it will be serialized. Though I suppose even a established mangaka could submit a oneshot if they wanted too. Just don't think it's necessary.

[Chido.]

Not always. For a first timer I believe that is normal. You submit a one shot for a competition. After you are an established mangaka you submit a few chapters for a new series and the editorial staff decides if it will be serialized. Though I suppose even a established mangaka could submit a oneshot if they wanted too. Just don't think it's necessary.

Owh. Btw, Somebody said that Sasuga Kei had another one shot before GE. If not mistaken, the title is Yami Kiri. Have any idea about it ?

[Znail]

I recommend reading Bakuman if you want to know how the manga business works.

[Rg1]

+1 to Znail read Bakuman firt of all its so cool and thrilling although it gets boring in each deadline but you really get the feeling of how manga works and how mangakas life are like which is tough lol.

[Rainrir]

Kei's oneshots

Her other oneshot's name is called "Smile Answer". The design for the female lead in it will eventually become the basis for "Eri" (the blonde, boisterous girl) in this manga. This oneshot is super-rare, I tend to believe that noone within the community has seen it before (it was on Magazine Dragon, which is pretty obscure a magazine. Not to mention scanners do not usually upload oneshots). "Smile Answer" was the winner in the Magazine Dragon new mangaka contest, which paved the way for the GE Oneshot to appear on Magazine. The popularity of that oneshot gave us the series proper.

What you called Yami-kiri is probably a mispelling from Yomi-kiri, which means "one-shot" in Japanese. AFAIK the Good Ending oneshot, Smile Answer and FIND NEW WAY (which is her entry for a earlier Magazine contest, she almost won with it but got eliminated towards the end) are her only published oneshots. There is also an unnamed work which she first submitted in 2005 that was never actually published in any form (it won the encouragemebt prize only), so there are actually 4 oneshots.

This process took her 4 years to even begin serialising. I guess this is why she said being serialised on Magazine is a dream come true. This is also why I don't approve of the 2ch otakus who go on pogroms and harass mangakas for perceived slights (often irrationally). They don't seem to understand how hard is it to get where the mangakas are in a competitive and shrinking market.

Structure of sourcing new serialisations and mangaka

As far as I know, Kodansha (Shounen MAGAZINE) usually holds new artists contests every year, where artists still currently not famous or serialised submit their works to be looked over. Winners generally get a chance to serialise, and very often winners get to serialise the story they want (but that might still be subjected to editor whim and the needs of that magazine). Only Winners get to serialise. Everyone else who gets "Commendation Prize" or "Encouragement Prize" do not get serialised unless something extraordinary happens.

From what I understand, Shounen JUMP and Shounen SUNDAY usually have "assistants" of more established mangaka forming the bulk of the new serialisations, and they are usually assigned a "topic" to draw on....though the lucky ones might get to choose their own "topics". That is to say submission-based/"discovered" mangakas don't exist in those two magazines. If I remember right, Tite Kubo (Bleach) was noone's assistant before he was comissioned to draw Zombie Powder. The mangaka of Super Dreadnought Girl was a very famous doujinshi artist before he joined Shougakugan (though his is relegated to a crappy online manga portal, despite the quality of his current work). On the other hand, someone like Oda (One Piece) was originally Watsuki's (Rurouni Kenshin) assistant (among others) before drawing One Piece.

**Edit: It was Magazine Dragon not Comic Dragon.