Manga no Tsukurikata 6

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Popular series! 22 pages

New style "yuri" manga artist story

Manga no Tsukurikata

You've been waiting for it! The comic volume is planned for winter release

Sliver Dragon Award Winner

Hirao Auri

2-1Sempai! Sempai!

2-2 Mm?
What? What?

2-3 This! I got it in the mail today and read it, so...!

2-4 Ah
The competition?

New manga award announcements

3-1 When you went for that meeting, it was at my publisher, right?

Yeah, well

3-2 Ohmygod!
I'm going to be in the same book with Sempai!

It's the other way around

3-3 I wanted to be in the same book with you

So that's why I interviewed at the same place

3-5 Uwwwah!
That's so great!

4-1 Your second debut?

Well, yeah, I guess!
It'll be in the next issue, it seems

4-2 It's been my dream for so long - to be in the same book as you, Morishita
It'll come true next month

4-3 Next month...

4-4 What about the month after?
Do you have anything after this?

Next... well

4-5 Just next month isn't good enough! I want to always be in the same book!

5-2 Mm
Yeah

They're on me for not turning in a plot

5-3 And it's due today

Eh!

I just remembered

5-4 So... I don't know when the editor's going to call, and when I think about it, I'm so nervous that I can't write anything

Start writing!

6-4 Yes
Um
Thanks for your help

6-5 The plot?
Yeah

6-6 It's done

7-1 I've got an urgent errand and have to step out, but

I'll fax it once I return, ok?

7-2 Total call length

56 seconds

7-3 Sempai, so you have the...

It's not done

7-4 So go home already, Morishita!

Eeeh?

Go home!

I just got here!

7-5 Look, look...
I'll do my layouts too!

'cause they are due this weekend

8-1 I'll stay out of your room so I won't be a bother
Let's both of us work together!

8-2 Morishita...

8-5 Morishita
Isn't the hall cold?

8-6 I'm fine

9-1 You want a blanket or something?

I'm just fine, ok?
But, Sempai, you should be writing your plot!

9-3 I can't

I mean, that was the result of compiling three years of neglected plots

I don't have anything left...

10-1 Morishita, how are you doing?

10-2 Eh, I'm just finished up

10-3 You backstabber!

The problem is with your ability!

10-4 Are you finished, Sempai?

Well...
It's impossible!

10-5 Wha?
What are you going to do? Just tell them "It's impossible"?

That's... impossible too!

11-1 In the first place, I haven't drawn anything in a long time, so there's no way I can just start to...

Oh

11-5 That's right!

11-6 That's the whole reason for Morishita!

I can do it...

12-1 I've thought of something I can draw!

Really!

Thanks!

12-3 I can do it!

12-4 Or should I say, this is the only thing I can write!

13-1 Waaaah

13-4 I can't even write a bit

13-5 Why?

I've done lots of date-like stuff with Morishita, right?

14-2 I thought I'd be able to draw yuri manga by now

14-5 Maybe because I don't understand yuri?

Morishita...

14-6 Could it be because I haven't been able to love Morishita yet?

15-1 I knew it. You're cold

I'm not cold!

Morishita, do you love me?

15-3 Eh
Um

15-4 Yeah, I knew it

16-1 So then, you should write the plot for me

16-2 That's no good

16-3 If it's not your manga, it's meaningless

I want to be published with your manga

16-4 You're right

16-5 Sorry, it was a joke

17-1 I finally ended up sending two lines of something that couldn't even be called a plot

17-2 What you want to draw and what you can draw are different things. Yeah.

Mmmmm

17-3 You been like this the whole day?

17-4 What of it?

Don't you have something to do?

Hell yes!

17-5 But, y'know

18-1 So you haven't gotten anything done

I have. Somehow.

18-2 Not that I feel like drawing

18-3 Hmmm...
So where's Morishita today?

18-4 She busy with layouts for a while and said she can't come

I'm the one you should be concerned with

Ehhhh

18-5 Look, you can see her at school, right?
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19-5 I finished the layouts, so...

20-1 I thought if Morishita wasn't here, I'd be able to work

This is so goddamm boring

20-4 What's wrong?

I though it was about time where it should be ok to come over

21-1 Did something happen?

21-4 I finished the layouts a while ago, but haven't done a thing since
I've got to hurry up and get the rough drafts done

21-5 You're able to finish rough drafts quickly, right Morishita?

I can't!

21-6 I'm always lonely becasue I'm alway alone

22-3 Ok, let's go over to your place now

22-4 I also have to do my roughs
Let's do them together

22-5 The thought occurred to me that I need to be by her side. Not for me, but for her.