Talk:Akiko Hatsu

message: Here are some sources, all in Japanese, unfortunately. I'll try to sort out how they might be used. Apart from Hatsu's official website, there is not much substantive material on the Web. There are plenty of reviews on personal logs, but the reviewers are for the most part not noted experts. I did find an online interview, though:
*An interview with Akiko Hatsu on the website of the . This is not a very long interview, and focuses on her path to becoming a professional manga artist, but this is no doubt because the site is intended for would-be manga artists. This is a decent source of information on how she went from being a teenage assistant to her famous older sister to becoming a pro. It was a surprisingly long and difficult path.
Print sources:
*An interview with Hatsu in the Summer 2002 issue of the now semi-defunct magazine, Comickers. Since Comickers was a technically-oriented magazine, the interview focuses on the subject of "structure" (narrative and visual), using her  as a case study. But it's a fairly long interview (in teeny tiny print) and the last two pages are dedicated to questions about her pro debut and career. This should be a useful source. I need to read it again carefully to see what specifically could be useful.
*An interview in the 1999, No. 5 issue of . I've just purchased a copy and it should arrive in a couple of days.
*An introduction to/recommendation of Hatsu's  in a librarian's guide to young adult literature, published in 1998. I've just ordered this one, too. It should be interesting.
*The afterwords in the Bunkobon editions of Hatsu's books. These are usually written by various critics and experts and can be good source of references for critical analysis of Hatsu's work. The one I wrote focuses on Hatsu as a teacher, and includes numerous quotes from students, but it's hard to see how this one could very useful in this article, except for a couple of lines regarding Hatsu's precision and attention to detail. I'll take at look at what others wrote and see what might be useful.
*Here's one fan's bibliography, which is pretty helpful (if you read Japanese).
I'll post new info as I find it. Matt Thorn (talk) 16:00, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I took the liberty of removing the vague and unreferenced sentence, " She has published over 30 works since her manga debut in 1981." The problem is what is defined as a "work", particularly in Hatsu's case, since much of her work is more or less self-contained short stories that are part of a series, as in the "Uryūdō Dream Tales" and "Beautiful England" series. I'm not sure what the best way to describe the amount of her output would be. We could mention the magazines she has worked in most extensively, e.g., DUO, Grapefruit, Petit Flower, Strange Stories for Sleepless Nights (later changed to Nemuki), and Flowers. She's been published in plenty of other magazines, but these are the ones where she has done the bulk of her work. If Amazon.co.jp is any indication, she currently has 36 books in print, though some are different editions (wide-ban and bunko) of the same works. Then again, I'm not sure how important it is to talk about quantity. Matt Thorn (talk) 07:38, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What would be important would be to determine if critics have talked about her "style" or "voice" in her manga, and what they've said (without being too effusive or damning ourselves) - that would go a way towards satisfying WP:CREATIVE. -Malkinann (talk) 08:35, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: For that, I'll fetch my bunko editions of her work and see what critics say about her work. Matt Thorn (talk) 09:30, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Body of work 

message: I just sent e-mail to Hatsu asking if she could send me a photo of herself we could use here. I'll report again when I hear back from her. Matt Thorn (talk) 15:22, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Because she's a living person (and thus could theoretically be photographed by a Wikipedia user), the photograph needs to be under a free license, as WP:NFCC doesn't allow copyrighted images when free ones can be taken.  Please read Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for more details. -Malkinann (talk) 22:15, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Specifically Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission#For_images. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:12, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Eek. Sounds like a lot of trouble, particularly since there seems to be no Japanese version of the waiver. Maybe I'll just wait till the next time she comes to Kyoto and photograph her myself. Matt Thorn (talk) 08:01, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I got a response from Hatsu. She'd rather not have her photo used, but offered to contribute a self-caricature. I don't want to go against her wishes re the photo, but I'm wondering about the self-caricature. Any precedent for using self-caricatures/self-portraits for cartoonists' articles in lieu of a photo? Matt Thorn (talk) 00:01, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If she releases it under a free license, then there's no problem. Otherwise, one can't be used unless she is dead, in which case a photo is preferable. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:42, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I can explain it and get her to sign the release when she gives it to me. Matt Thorn (talk) 07:52, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If she chooses a license so that we can upload it on the Wikimedia Commons, then the image can be used in her other biographies easily too. -Malkinann (talk) 00:11, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
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