There's even an enhanced ebook version of Ink from the iBookstore with the illustrations and cover as animated sequences! Such a cool idea.
That gave me the perfect secluded and safe area for Tomohiro to sketch his drawings without fear of hurting others or revealing his secrets.Īmanda: I love the included illustrations and flip art in the book! How cool to have animations in a book about drawings coming to life.
Finally, Shizuoka has a great archeological site called Toro Iseki, and when I went it was closed off and under renovations. There are a lot of high schools around this park, and when I was visiting one of my previous host students here, I was inspired with images of Katie going to school here as well. It also has an amazing park in the center of the city complete with moat and castle. Shizuoka is a beautiful Japanese city, but has very few foreigners and is a little more remote than Tokyo might be. I wanted to show a variety of Asian characters with different personalities and interests to challenge any stereotypes about how Japanese people act or think. I didn't want to hit the reader over the head with the setting though, so I tried to bring up things as they related to the story.
Ink allowed me to share what it's like to move to Japan, so it's hopefully immersive in every way - language, food, customs, and high school life. When I came back from living in Japan on exchange, I found that I couldn't really express what my experience had been like. Amanda: I really wanted to tell a Japanese-style story with a diverse YA cast, all based on a different mythology.
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