Soshite Boku wa Gedōman ni Naru

A dramatized autobiography by Shinji Hiramatsu about starting his career as a manga artist.

This one is really unique because Shinji Hiramatsu is covering his own life but he’s clearly taking some liberties the narrative to paint this picture of a young manga artist who falls into darkness after creating violent manga. While there are other real manga artists who appear in the story, Hiramatsu has changed the names of all editors from Shueisha he worked with. There are some really over-the-top scenes where Hiramatsu himself is literally butting heads with the editors who antagonize him. Because of this I ended up looking at this series as more of a work of fiction than an actually autobiography.

~dakazu