The author openly admits that, even if she enjoys an open spectrum of different manga and video games, most of the things she finds appealing are directed at boys, saying she doesn't see herself drawing shojo manga. She is a big fan of Akira, and owns all of Junji Ito's and Kazuo Umezu’s work.Ĭharacter designs, plot and background details made by Q Hayashida in 2014 According to Q, she enjoys reading Puripuri-ken as she eats, but seems just a little bit embarrassed by the fact.
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She likes reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms manga, and is also a big fan of the Shigurui manga, Motofumi Kobayashi's Omega series and King Gonta's Soten Koro.
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She is obsessed with the Dynasty Warriors games, to the point that her PS2 broke at one point, and considers them highly addictive. She got her debut at Shogakukan Monthly Ikki in 1999, where she started working on her most prominent work up to date, Dorohedoro. It was in college that she started to take art seriously, and focusing on starting her career as a manga artist. Though Q Hayashida wasn't a good student per se, realizing that there was almost no difference between college and what she used to do in high school, she kept doing doodles and improving even more.
Figuring it wouldn't do her any good anyway, Q Hayashida skipped most of her prep school classes.Īlmost immediately after entering the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where she majored in painting, her art style improved and became almost similar in quality to the work she is known for today. She recalls not being very interested in a lot of her classes, since they often had the students do black-and-white sketches of plaster busts from different angles over and over again, which in her opinion could sometimes lead to being unable to produce anything good due to an unfortunate angle. The first time Q Hayashida had her artwork printed was in a pamphlet at the fine arts prep school she was attending at the time. Her mother usually told her how bad it was too, though thereby only making her tougher and giving her the will to progress. In her own words, her art style used to be "awful" before college, and she "wasn't even able to copy Toriyama's Dragon Ball style if her life depended on it". Not much is known about her, not even her real name, and most of the information we do have about her childhood, art style, and studies is thanks to the various interviews she has given.Įven before starting college, Q Hayashida had already settled on becoming a manga artist, submitting art to different magazines, and working as a freelancer for a while.