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Does anyone know if there are any Gaijin, or forgine manga-ka's in japan?

I mean not to be a downer on anyone but, when walking into a studio as a gaijin they're probably going to shift you to the bottom of the pile automatically simply because they'll assume you writing ability in Japanese sucks. May or may not be true, but it's a common assumption (and one that's saved my ass a few times) that if you are not Japanese, you can't speak Japanese.

To such a fortunate or unfortunate degree that no one expects you to speak to them.

(Two prime examples, I was reading package instructions for making a cake, and having trouble with Kanji and a woman came an halped me, not because I looked like I was strugling, but because she assumed I was illiterate. ((This was a good thing because I wasn't about to ask someone to read me the back of a cake mix))
One of my friends had to apply for a job and asked for an aplication in Japanese, they said they the english aplication was elsewhere in Japanese, it took 15 min for him to convince them that he could speak and read japanese enough not to have to stand in another line to get the same application.)

anyway, I ask because I want to go to Comiket maybe next winter and mostly I'm looking for anyone in Japan that has/knows of a circle/ wants to start a circle in the Chiba/Tokyo area.