![]() The Shueisha editor he met highly criticized the work, but said it had potential and to clean it up for the upcoming Tezuka Awards. He decided to go to the publishers' offices in Tokyo to find out why in person, taking a manga he stayed up all-night to finish. All his submissions were rejected while other artists his age or younger were making successful debuts. He submitted his first work to a magazine in his first year of high school. After a school friend praised his manga, he began secretly drawing manga behind his parent's backs. ![]() He was particularly influenced by the work of French artist Paul Gauguin. ![]() He cites his sisters' annoyances as the reason he spent time alone in his room reading manga, naming Ai to Makoto as the most important one to him, His father's art books, he supposes they were his motive for drawing manga. ![]() Araki grew up in Sendai, Japan with his parents and younger identical twin sisters.
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