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This is where it’s convenient and fun. Making the creases on the map was fun too.)
⛳️Current Goals & 📍How Far Have I Come?
Hello. I’m Sara Yano, an artist.
“I want to continue creating my original manga Tabintail while enjoying daily life and my creative work.”
This is my current goal. ⛳️
I hope to make it my life’s work.
The actual release of the manga is still a ways off, but until then, please enjoy the creative process.
I’ve created a page where you can see the progress of making the manga.
(I really like schedules and checklists.)
I’ll update it occasionally, so please keep an eye on it if you’d like 👩🎨🌱
The progress bar on the right of each item represents
my personal feeling of progress
(■□□□□ like this), roughly rated on a 5-point scale.
Original Manga “Tabintail” Overview ⛳️⛳️
・Planning and producing a serialized original manga in story format⛳️
・Set in a future Japan, this is a new society
where spirits,yokai， and animals, like the cat Tabin live.
The story follows characters each with their own worries and wishes.
🎒Preparation
📚Learning ←In progress✨
English Study🔤: I want to share this with the world at the same time.
I’ve always enjoyed foreign TV shows and movies,
so I’m happily continuing with them.
Learning about different cultures is fun.
For more details
・Video:
Watching videos on YouTube or Netflix
with simultaneous Japanese and English subtitles
while practicing pronunciation. Active immersion?
・Audio:
Listening to English channels or English conversation channels on Spotify.
Ongoing for over a year. Probably forever. My sense of progress: ■■□□□
Learn📚:
・Scriptwriting, manga production, illustration, 3DCG, multiple fields featured in manga, ways of life and thinking, etc. Books, YouTube, online, etc.
Ongoing for over a year. Probably forever. My sense of progress: ■■■□□
👭 I want to spread this and make it enjoyable. ← In progress ✨
📱💬 Sharing the production process and progress on SNS and websites:
The list of making-of articles is here
Taking it step by step🌱 My sense of progress: ■□□□□
🤝Creating a Relationship Diagram:
Not yet. Looking forward to making it🥳 My sense of progress:□□□□□
🗺️Creating a Map:
Not yet. Looking forward to making it🥳 My sense of progress:□□□□□
📖✍️ Let’s create a story
👥Character Settings: ←In Progress✨
Main character is done.My sense of progress: ■■■□□
💡Story Production: 🔄 In Progress ✨
The broad outline is done.My sense of progress: ■□□□□
🖼️Let’s Make It Into a Manga: Art Work
👭Let’s make a 3D model. In Blender. ←In progress✨
🐈Main Character:
3 figures complete🐈🦆🌹. Still adding more. My sense of progress:■■□□□
👥Mob Character:
Untouched. My sense of progress: □□□□□
🏢Environment, Buildings, Background:
Untouched. My sense of progress: □□□□□
📝 Let’s create the storyboard (manga rough draft. Panel layout blueprint): Not started yet
📐💬Name Creation:
I’m not at that stage yet. My sense of progress: □□□□□
🎨 Let’s draw. In CLIP STUDIO.: Not started yet
🎭Posing & Facial Expression Adjustment・📸3D Image Output:
🖌️Hand-drawn Retouching & Illustration:
I’m not at that stage yet. My sense of progress: □□□□□
🚀 Launch the main manga series: Not started yet
I’m not at that stage yet. My sense of progress: □□□□□
制作クレジット／CREDITS
・企画・漫画ストーリー：
矢野サラ
・アートワーク（イラスト・3D・アニメーション）：
矢野サラ
・アイデアサポート（思考の整理や発想の補助のための壁打ち）：
Perplexity（2025～）
参考文献：『AIを使って考えるための全技術』（石井力重／ダイヤモンド社）
↑書籍掲載のプロンプトも参考にしています。
Planning, Comic Story：
Sara Yano
Artwork (Illustration, 3D & Animation)：
Sara Yano
Idea Support (Idea Bouncing for Organizing Thoughts and Stimulating Creativity)：
Perplexity (since 2025)
Reference:
All Techniques for Thinking with AI (Rikie Ishii / Diamond, Inc.)
Prompts published in the book were also referenced.
英語版への翻訳／Translation into English
制作スピード向上のため、以下の翻訳ツールを活用しています。
↓翻訳工程順
- 日本語原文制作：矢野サラ
- 英訳：DeepL or Perplexity
- 漫画作中の口調修正：Perplexity
- 英文最終チェック：矢野サラ
※作者は現在英語学習中です。不自然な表現があればご指摘いただけますと、今後の制作に活かせるのでありがたいです。
The following translation tools are used to speed up the production process.
↓Translation process order
- Original Japanese text produced by Sara Yano
- English translation: DeepL
- Correction of tone of voice in cartoon work: DeepL or Perplexity
- Final check of English text: Sara Yano
I am currently learning English.
I would appreciate it if you could point out any unnatural expressions so that I can make use of them in future productions.
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