@moffintosh @animeirl @berkberkman @lain @coolboymew @ooignignoktoo I need to see a formal description of the non indie manga corporate structure and business model. You take a popular manga like death note and there's one mangaka. but he's working for a publisher. He still has an editor which apparently can reject his ideas. He's got a staff that does "minor" art tasks like adding detail to backgrounds.

my questions are things like, does the mangaka effectively function like a movie director where it's their vision over the whole project BUT with an editor. How much control does the editor actually have over the creative process? Does the mangaka find their own creative assistants or are they assigned from the publisher? can you get replaced for a title by a publisher?