It’s amazing to think about how much the industry of creating manga and other forms of comics has changed in such a short period of time. It wasn’t all that long ago that the sole purpose of computers in the process was to add colors and word balloons to the page. Things like penciling and inking were left to traditional tools because the technology wasn’t quite there yet to accurately reproduce the subtle pen and pencil strokes artists use when creating their work. Or if it was there, it was pretty darn expensive