Manga no Tsukurikata 9

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

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This month's issue has 2 chapters! 21p+12p=33p
New style "yuri" manga artist story

Manga no Tsukurikata

It's blown past super popular...
Now scheduled to be monthly

The anticipated volume 1
On sale February 20!!!

Hirao Auri

1-3 Morishita...

What about school?

1-4 What are you talking about?
It's summer vacation!

2-1 Job?

I don't have a shift today!

2-2 Hmm

2-5 So why are you here?

3-1 That's so mean!

Because you haven't finished your inking, I've got nothing to do except to lay her and read Blackjack, right?

3-2 It's really suspenseful right now.
The patient can't pay for the surgery

...the probability of them being unable to pay is high

3-3 Hurry up and let me help ouuuut!

I'm not a genius like you. I can't just finish up like that.

3-4 When's the deadline?

Tomorrow

I'm not going to humble myself

3-5 Tomorrow, huh?

What of it?
I'm used to it, ok?

4-2 I'm going out for a bit

If it's shopping, I'll go

4-3 I have to take some reference photos, so it's ok

4-5 The screen's so small
I want a digital camera...

5-1 Click Click

5-2 Click

5-3 Click

5-4 Click

Everyone in the neighborhood's staring at me...

5-5 Too close to home

6-5 I don't...

wanna go back

7-1 Maybe I could say I got a fever

But I could still draw

Maybe I could say I've got to go to a funeral [I'm stretching it here, but it's easier than explaining about memorial anniversary dates]

I haven't mentioned anything, so they'd find out

Maybe I could say I broke my arm

They find out even sooner...

7-2 What a pain...

7-3 Since it's nothing but a pain, what do I want to do about it...?

7-4 Editor [handwritten]

I think that it's because manga artists have something they really want to say that they draw manga.

8-1 It's blue skies today too!

When everyone's healthy it tastes great

The rice is soo good!

God...!

8-2 Nothing!

8-3 Nothing but how hard agriculture is...

And because I've never farmed, I don't know how hard it is...

8-5 Notifications
New Messages: 1

8-6 Main Folder
001 Morishita
002 Yuri-chan [ha ha ha]
003 Morishita
004 Morishita
005 Yu

9-1 Morishita
No title
I fell and broke my arm!

9-2 Whaaaat!
What...

9-3 You lied?

I lied

10-1 I thought you might have been talking about Blackjack there. Not that either? [blackjack is a manga about a surgeon]

I haven't gotten to that part

I don't have the volume after that, ok?

Eh!
You serious!?

10-4 I'm the one about to break an arm here...

My heart is already broken...

10-5 How many pages do you still have to do?

10-6 Ten pages with nothing on them...

What...!

11-2 Ah... I didn't take a bath last night...

11-3 The city bustle. It's been a while...

11-5 I ended up coming to Tokyo with unfinished pages

No... coming to Tokyo was the only option left...

12-1 Hey
Kawaguchi-san!

12-2 It's been a while. Forgive me.

Right after you've arrived? That's a bit...

12-3 Anyway, there's a conference room open
How many pages are unfinished?

I've inked 20 pages. I have four pages still blank

12-4 Ok, you should be able to get it done by 4pm, right?

12-5 I'm very sorry about this

13-2 You expect me to finish...?

13-3 Oh yeah, I've called in some help

Eh!

13-4 I'm grateful, but I don't even know what *I'm* doing, so I don't know how someone can help me... [bold or italicize word in asterisks]

She's younger, so it should be ok, I think

13-5 When your submission won an award, she was in the final round. But she said she'd like to work as an assistant.

14-1 I like your manga, Kawaguchi-san
About #10 out of all the stories in this manga

14-2 10...
Thats about the middle, huh...

Thank you...

14-3 Scary...

14-4 Can I have you lay down tone here?
Something with a kinda coarse feel...

14-5 ...maybe a gradient would be better...?

A gradient is fine!

15-1 The way the tone is applied in your manga is always a little hap-hazard

15-2 It bothers me - the places where the tone crosses into areas it shouldn't

15-3 Morishita did that part

15-4 I think it'd be easier to read if you finish it nicely the way Sachi-san does

I did that part

15-5 The art and story weren't bad or anything, but her manga already finished up
I guess she must be busy... Sachi-san...

Busy...?
She's just reading all the Blackjack volumes

16-1 Kawaguchi-san! You're friends with Sachi-san?

16-2 Friends...?
It's like she almost lives in my home...

16-3 I'm jealous...

16-4 If you're that close, why doesn't the quality of your tone improve?

16-5 If I tell her that Morishita *is* helping, that would look bad for Morishita... [put *is* in italics]

17-1 I love your manga, sempai!

I love it more than anyone else in the whole world!

And I love you more than anything in whole world sempai!

I'm set in my ways...

17-2 I guess so

17-3 You wouldn't have this problem if you would have started earlier
I guess no one said anything to you, hmm?

It's hard to tell her...

17-4 Hurry up and finish so we can go out!

Where do you want to go, sempai?
I want to go to city hall!

17-5 For both reasons, it's hard

18-2 Sempai! Welcome back!

18-3 There's dinner! Onigiri!

18-5 Onigiri for dinner [onigiri is usually eaten for lunch or a snack]

19-1 But it's great you made it in time.

19-2 If you didn't, and you didn't appear in this month's issue, I wouldn't forgive you
Actually

19-3 I'm just really happy I'll get to read your manga

19-4 You're the best, Morishita!

Eh!?
For what!?

20-1 It was hard to make it in time!
I don't wanna do that again!

I'm going to all my pages with you from now, Morishita!

20-2 Whaaa?

20-3 Ok, then let's get started!

Maybe it'd be ok to start a little later after everything this month... No! No!

Yeah, let's...