{"rewrite":{"id":"r_61394bc7577e4a3754116394","clusterId":"c_5c32cc9c2540c692b992a1e8","slug":"hideki-arai-opens-website-to-publish-rejected-manga-storyboards","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Hideki Arai Opens Website to Publish Rejected Manga Storyboards","summary":"Manga artist Hideki Arai, known for \"Miyamoto kara Kimi e\" and \"The World Is Mine,\" launched the website \"Arai Hideki no Name de Baku\" on September 4. The site will publish unpublished storyboards, unreleased manuscripts, and fragments of works. Arai said the trigger was wanting to publish rejected names out of frustration. He also plans to publish childhood works, self-commentary and corrections of past works, and his own manga theory.","whyItMatters":"Arai is turning rejected storyboards and unpublished material into public content, opening his creative process to readers.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe site is framed as a place for \u0026#34;play\u0026#34; that his main manga work cannot express. Arai is considering serializing storyboards and continuing unfinished works, though he said he will not limit the format to publishing a story in order from the start. He may release scenes and fragments as they come to him. On future updates, he admitted that immediate storyboard serialization is difficult, but he is weighing concrete explanations of past manuscripts and self-corrections. The site is meant to show what a manga artist thinks, what he fixes, and how he assembles a work, things finished pages do not make visible.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Hideki Arai, the artist behind Miyamoto kara Kimi e and The World Is Mine, opened a website to publish rejected storyboards, unreleased manuscripts, and fragments of his work. He plans to add self-commentary, corrections of past works, and his own manga theory.","twitterPost":"Hideki Arai opened a website to publish rejected storyboards, unreleased manuscripts, and fragments of his work. He plans to add self-commentary, corrections of past works, and his own manga theory.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Hideki Arai, the artist behind Miyamoto kara Kimi e and The World Is Mine, opened a website on September 4 to publish rejected storyboards, unreleased manuscripts, and fragments of his work. He plans to add self-commentary, corrections of past works, and his own manga theory. The site is framed as a place for play that his main manga work cannot express.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"KAI-YOU\",\"url\":\"https://kai-you.net/article/96454\",\"title\":\"Manga Artist Hideki Arai Opens Website to Publish Rejected Storyboards, Eyes Corrections of Past Works\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4501,"outputTokens":3230,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1788529429,"createdAt":"2026-09-04T11:54:52.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-04T11:59:03.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-04T11:59:03.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_5c32cc9c2540c692b992a1e8","canonicalTitle":"漫画家 新井英樹、自分の“ボツネーム”を載せるWebサイトを開設　過去作の添削も視野に","representativeArticleId":"a_b61b4c22a308e7a8a992fd3f","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[\"Miyamoto kara Kimi e\",\"The World Is Mine\"],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Hideki Arai\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"manga\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-04T10:30:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-04T10:30:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-04T11:59:03.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"KAI-YOU","url":"https://kai-you.net/article/96454","title":"漫画家 新井英樹、自分の“ボツネーム”を載せるWebサイトを開設　過去作の添削も視野に"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":["Miyamoto kara Kimi e","The World Is Mine"],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Hideki Arai"],"type":"announcement","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}