Draw This, Then Die! Vol. 1

To be an artist is to sacrifice everything for your craft! One wannabe manga artist is about to experience the reality of being a creator when she decides to jump into the world of manga. The award-winning manga series about the ups and downs of creating manga and being an artist—soon to be an anime!

Yasumi Ai, a first-year high schooler living on the remote island of Izu Ōshima, has one obsession: manga. When she discovers that her long-idolized but reclusive favorite manga creator, Hoshino-sensei, will make a rare appearance at Comitia, Ai doesn’t hesitate—she has to meet her hero. But that single decision sets off a chain of encounters that will shatter her assumptions about art, genius, and what it truly means to create.

Winner of the 16th Manga Taisho Award and the 70th Shogakukan Manga Award—now an anime in the making!Minoru Toyoda is a manga creator in Japan best known for Draw This, Then Die! Toyoda won first place for his biggest hit Love Roma in 2002. CLAMP even praised the series: "We've been telling all the people we meet to read this manga!" He's also married to fellow mangaka and illustrator, MASAKO Tomii.