TPK 162: Maou No Sekai | The Quest to a SUSTAINABLE Comics Industry in the Philippines

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The following podcast is my discovery of a remarkable comics creator, Maou No Sekai.

She was supposed to be accompanied by two of her colleagues but unfortunately, changes in our schedules left her as the lone guest for today's episode.

I didn't know much about her, but I decided to go on doing the solo episode anyway after our good friend Julius Sempio assured me that she would do great on her own.

True enough, we had a great, insightful, and productive conversation about different plans and approaches to creating a sustainable comics industry in the Philippines.
We talked about her original comics, her comics journey, the persistent problems of a comics creator, and the morale of the comics community, we entertained ideas like supplementing comics work with toys, merch, and games like her very own, La Historiaaaah tabletop card game!

We also discussed the newly formed conglomerate Pulsar Press, its plans to shake up the comics industry, and, yes, world domination.

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0:00 Intro

2:49 OBB

3:49 Podcast starts

4:28 How to type in Japanese characters

6:09 Maou No Sekai introduces herself

6:36 Loving the mecha genre in manga

7:51 Propaganda Project

9:00 Getting out of her comfort zone and freelance struggles

9:45 The comics dream

12:25 Comics creating process

13:48 Maou's books and projects

18:34 Creating in Webtoons

24:03 Komiksman on his postponed comics dream and writing process

26:10 Maou's writing process

29:36 Being full time on comics

30:28 Committing on your character designs

32:54 Cartoons show and the toys industry

41:04 Forming Pulsar Press

44:12 How to make making a living through comics work a possibility

46:02 Pulsar Press'vision for local comics

47:17 Fighting off the frustrations

49:38 What is the local comics community's current battlecry?

52:02 Local vs International market for Filipino comics

53:58 Lack of government support for the comics industry

56:08 Africa's consumption of Philippine content

57:15 BINI and PPOP explosion and the local creative industry's lack of foresight

1:03:08 Comics is the most versatile creative medium

1:05:51 Building the local comics industry

1:07:17 Maou's Tabletop Game, La Historiaaaah!

1:15:27 Coming up with a card game

1:21:17 Tabletop games community

1:28:23 What happened to mobile gaming?

1:31:30 Filipinos struggle to create successful original IP products

1:35:50 Filipinos can't pitch a show properly?

1:37:45 A lot of artists are inarticulate

1:39:05 Final thoughts