verticalfish

Hey all!

I hope you enjoyed the Shinsakana City Arc, as that one took a long time to complete. I wrote the script for that 488 page saga at the end of my internship, around May to July 2015.

Needless to say, it took a long time and a lot of hard work to put all those ideas to the page, but it's finally done, which calls for a celebration!

But not so fast, there's still the next arc to write! And, though I have a general idea of what happens, I'm finding it a bit hard to put it into writing, which is usually the first step I take in creating stories.

With that said, I'll be taking a small hiatus in order to make sure the arc is properly written. I actually don't necessarily need to as I've already written the script for the first 100-150 pages which is not likely to change, but I very much want to get this part right because this arc is going to be intertwined with and involve foreshadowing of the next two arcs.

There has already been a bit of it, what with Tadakoro and the stuff he said when he died but... that's all I'm going to say about that. There will be much more to come.

The long and short of it is that I will be on Hiatus for a little while, maybe 2-3 weeks while I write...

Finally, I'll leave you with a teaser!

The next arc will contain:
-Hinata (for those of you who were wondering, lol)
-A tournament (what good shounen doesn't have one?)
-Debut of the team from Kuromisaki's Western HQ
-deception, intrigue, chaos, carnage
-romance!
-a primary antagonist not related to halgene!
-lots of cool and interesting idenshi hatsugen
-a couple of other things that I can't spoil!
-and of course, BEES

Once I'm done writing, I'm going to do some promotional color pictures before jumping back into the storytelling.

So stay tuned!

~Vert out

Hey guys!

Man, I've had a lot of journals in the past couple of days... but this one, like the others, is rather important.

Partly because of laziness, partly because of negligence, and partly because of a lack of confidence in the quality of my work, I never uploaded to heavily trafficked sites like Webtoons/Tapastic. I now look at that as a huge mistake, because in my absence, others were more than willing to fill that gap, step in and use my works for their benefit, and I was simply oblivious to it for more than a year. Well, the fish says no more!

I know a lot of you may be readers that came to my dA page after the impersonator's Webtoons account was deleted. If Webtoons is your preferred format, and you don't mind turning your head sideways to read all the double-page spreads, then rejoice!

I have finished uploading and am glad to announce the launch of my Webtoons and Tapas accounts:
Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/… (I use the name Vfish on this site)
Tapas: tapas.io/series/Hinata (I'm verticalfish here)

Those sites are not exactly amenable to page-by-page uploads the way smackjeeves and deviantArt are, so I'll have to figure out a release schedule - whether to cut chapters into small 4-8 page chunks and release more frequently (every 1-2 weeks), or release a chapter at a time, which would take more time (>2 months per release).

My smackjeeves chugs on as always, for manga-style format reading: hinata.smackjeeves.com/

I am sort of, kind of... OK, I'm just plain terrible at promoting my own work. I realized that when I found out that the fake Webtoons account had 1.2 million views and 11,600 subscribers in a 12-month period, which is about the same as the cumulative total views of the almost 2,000 deviations on my deviantArt page over 10 years...


When I thought that, I realized... I don't even submit to the groups on dA anymore, where I used to put my TSB pages. In fact, I haven't done it in years. Does anybody know any good groups where I could submit my pages to expand my readership? If anybody has any suggestions, I'm all ears!

Thanks so much for your support and readership.
~Vert