Manga no Tsukurikata 20

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.1]

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New style "yuri" manga artist story

The splash page is... Takeda-san out of her uniform

Hirao Auri's volume of new work "April 1st" will be on sale January 13
[ignore small text]

Volume 1 and 2
Are flying off the shelves

Hirao Auri

2-1 I'm going to send off the manuscript!

2-2 How does it feel to have the girl you like come to your home every day and totally be into someone else?

2-3 Wha!?

I don't get that at all

2-4 Don't you have someone you like?

I don't... or I should say I don't have the time

2-5 Even if the person you like doesn't like you back
It's fun to have someone you like

3-1 Really?

3-2 Um...

3-3 Do you really think that's enough?

3-4 Isn't that like it has no meaning?
To put it bluntly, it's a waste of time

If you don't get it, that's a pretty harsh way of saying it

4-3 We're going to go see deer now

4-5 It was deer

Or Glico [A Japanese confectionary company]

And we ended up deciding on deer

5-1 Morishita, you just went to Kyoto, right?
You should get out of Kinki. Go to Fukushima or Ishikawa! [Kinki is the region Kyoto is in. Nara, also in the Kinki region, is famous for deer]

If you made it Tokyo, you could stop by the office and drop off your manuscript, right?

I go to Tokyo every time I'm over deadline
I'm sick of it!

You're not there enough to get sick of...

5-2 Waitaminute! Now!?

5-3 If we fart around like this, our next deadline will sneak up on us

5-4 Morishita works at the bookstore the day after tomorrow
We'll have two nights! Barely!

6-1 I'm going home to get ready

Yeah. We'll meet at the station, ok?

6-3 You're not going to stop them?

Eh? Why?

6-4 They're going on a trip

So? It's just a trip...

6-5 If something happens that can't be undone, don't say I didn't warn you

6-6 What the...? Just what are you saying can happen on a trip...?

7-1 Where's my overnight bag?

7-3 Takeda-san, you want the two of them to split?

7-4 Of course. Morishita-san is in the way!

7-5 Wah

Kawaguchi-san can't get her work done, right?

Even under the best of circumstances, she's barely on time, and Morishita-san's always here, right?
You can't believe what I have to put up with...

Oohoho man...

7-6 Ah, sorry. You like Morishita-san, right?

7-7 It's ok, he likes Morishita, so...

7-8 Onee-san's been running her mouth off again

8-1 If you fall in love, it takes over everything. Everything else gets neglected

8-2 And Morishita-san can't keep her cool. She's wrapped up in herself and has love on the brain.
What's so great about that?

8-3 That's what's great about it!

8-5 ...ah...

9-1 Here it is!

9-2 I'm heading out as soon as I'm ready. Takeda-san, you're leaving with me, right?

9-3 I can't believe you'd want to stay with Masato, right?

9-4 That's right. I'm going home.

9-5 But I don't want to hear that it's dangerous for a boy and girl to be alone together. Not from you.
Well then.

9-6 Well, I can see her point

10-2 Hey, Onee-chan!

Mm?

10-3 Don't go on this trip!

10-4 Why?

"Why"...?

Is it going to be some hardship on you, or something?

No, it's not like that, but...

10-6 Ok, then postpone it!

You're making no sense

This is stupid

11-5 When are those roughs due?

Today. Once we get off the bullet train, is it ok to fax them from a convenience store?

12-3 There's no conversation...!

12-5 We're on a trip...
But if I say the wrong thing, her concentration might be shot

12-6 Once we arrive

13-1 Mm?

We'll go straight to the hotel, right?

13-2 Yeah. It's a weekday, so it was easy to get a reservation

13-3 Two nights!
We haven't had much time to hang out recently. I'm sooo happy!

13-4 Yeah, that's right

13-6 We don't have the chance to go out much. We're always drawing manga at home, huh?

14-1 I can't wait to see the deer!

14-2 The deer, huh?

The deer!

14-3 Let's write ten things we want to do when we see the deer!

I'm not sure there's ten...

14-4 Well, ride them, to start

I don't think you can do that in the park

* Ride them [this is the list]
* Eat them
* Scold them [only the deer]

14-5 Ok, the wild ones then

14-7 15 Messages

14-8 Voicemail
Masato [all the messages are from Masato]

15-3 The subscriber you are trying to reach is not in a service area

What?

15-4 And while we were talking, we're here!

15-5 1300th anniversary of the moving of the Capital [Nara used to be the capital of Japan]

16-1 Hey, you didn't finish your roughs

Ah, I got carried by the deer...

16-2 Anyway, let's quickly find someplace where you can finish up

16-3 We ended up in a MacDonalds...

16-4 It's totally unlike Nara in here

17-1 Finished!

17-2 Sempai, you haven't got much done

Yeah, I just finished this month's, so my will hasn't come back yet

17-3 But sempai, your deadline is earlier this month than usual, right?

Yeah!

17-4 My comic is coming out, so they want more pages for the next chapter when it launches [comic here is the collected volume of her monthly chapters]

Twice the pages!

17-5 Twice!

17-6 chomp chomp

17-7 That's rough!

18-1 Chomp Chomp

18-2 She's got nothing to do

18-3 Morishita, once you fax that, why don't you go on ahead to the hotel?
It's a little bit of a walk from here. Here's a map.

18-4 Its ok, I'll wait. It seems you're almost done

19-2 Well, I guess that's it

I'll fix it up later...

19-3 Whaa...

19-4 Morishita, you're asleep?

19-5 Morishita!

19-6 Hurry up and fax your stuff, then you can sleep as much as you want at the hotel!

20-1 Ah, I wonder if the editor's gone home already!?

20-2 I don't know where a convenience store is

Won't there be a fax in the hotel?

Yeah, that's right!

20-5 Out of two nights, one is already wasted...