Happy Ever After
Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey„ volume 1
By Akiko Higashimura
1 Oct, 2025
Translation
Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey, Volume One is the first tankōbon of Akiko Higashimura’s autobiographical manga series. Originally titled Kakukaku Shikajika (“So-and-So, Such-and-Such”), Blank Canvas was serialized in the monthly manga magazine Cocohana from 2011 to 2015.
Young Akiko has a simple and entirely reasonable plan: go to art school, make her stunning manga debut while still in school, accrue public adulation and money, marry actor Etsushi Toyokawa, and rest on her laurels as a successful and popular mangaka.
There’s only one small problem, which is that Akiko is a fool.
But first, a word about Miyazaki Prefecture.