Manga no Tsukurikata 12

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

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New style "yuri" manga artist story

Manga no Tsukurikata

The Story Of...
How They Met...

2nd printing [in the star]
Volume 1 is flying off the shelves
Received a great review from manga journal "Pafu"

Hirao Auri

2-1 Two years ago. Spring [spring is often a euphemism for love...]

2-2 Manga, it can be said, is where you must create everything from nothing

2-3 Are you done with the plot?

2-4 Um...
Not yet...

2-5 I can't think of anything

2-8 Really, if I don't have something in my mind, I can't draw anything

4-1 Yeah, drawing manga is the only thing I know

4-4 Hiring Now!
Part Time Job
Students - Freelancers
Wage 800yen
You can start with only 1 day a week

4-5 Ah! It's that I don't have enough life experience!

5-1 M-m-my name is Morishita

5-2 Your first job?

Yes!

5-3 That so? I'm in my second year here.
Well, the manager asked me to show you the ropes, so

5-4 Nice to meet you

I'm Kawaguchi

6-2 Nice to meet you

6-4 Ah! No, no...

6-6 It's the same author, but the publisher is different, so it goes over there

7-2 You're on break too, Morishita-san?

7-3 Yes, the manager said I should take my break with you...

Geez, we're not kids

7-4 But... I haven't talked to any of the employees but you, Kawaguchi-sempai...

7-5 You've got nice manners, so you'll do fine

7-6 You can have my bread

8-2 Ok, I'll take the magazines

So can I have you do the comics?

8-3 Ah, ok!

You learn fast, so that's a big help, Morishita-san

8-5 Lemon [hur hur hur]

8-6 Kobayakawa's Yuri Comics

9-1 Yuri?

9-2 What's that?

9-3 Sempai, what's "yuri"?

9-4 Mm?

9-5 When I was putting the comics away, I saw one that said that...

Ah, that...

It's love stories about two girls

9-6 Is that kind of things popular now?

Yeah, it's popular

9-7 Hmm...

Morishita-san, you can have my bread

10-2 Finished!

10-3 Faster than usual!

I want to tell myself, "good job!"

10-5 Good morning!

10-6 Morning

You seem happy. Did something nice happen?

11-1 It's like I no longer have something stuck in my throat

11-2 I feel like I could love the whole world

Hmm

I don't get it

11-4 Oops

11-6 That the one that just came in...

Yeah, it's the new volume

12-1 You have to keep up with what's popular, after all

12-2 I've got to go to the warehouse for a sec
Want to read it?

12-3 Ah...
Yes

13-2 Sempai

13-3 Sempai

14-1 So about the next plot...

It's done!

14-2 It's done?!

If I really focus, it's easy!

Please focus all the time...
So, what's it like?

14-3 Ummm, well

I'll explain fully later, but briefly, after a variety of stuff happens, the main character falls in love with someone from the neighboring school who's one year older

14-4 But... That person moves to a distant island.

14-5 So... the main character follows the person all the way to the island, but finds out that's where the boyfriend lives. Kinda soap opera-ish.

15-1 So the main character is a boy this time.
Pretty unusual for you, huh Morishita-san?

15-2 No, she's a girl

...but you said boyfriend?

That's why the person the main character likes is a girl!

Isn't that yuri?

15-3 Yuri?

That's yuri, right?

15-5 It's love stories about two girls

16-1 Morning

Um, Yesterday I ended up coming back from the warehouse earlier than expected, so you didn't get to read it, right?

Ah, sorry

16-2 I'll let you borrow it again, ok?

16-3 Let's give it our best today too, ok?

16-5 "Yuri", huh?