Manga no Tsukurikata 17

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

Panel 1 Panel 1

New style "yuri" manga artist story

Manga no Tsukurikata

Summer...
Is it already over?

Hirao Auri

Volume 1 and 2 on sale
Asada Hiroyuki-sensei has praised this series!

2-1 For a change of pace, maybe I'll go out for a bit

2-2 Are you nuts!?

2-4 Crap. She's really mad...

If I stay in the house, I just can't find motivation

You just saw Ponyo, right? [the new studio Ghibli film]

That was great!

2-6 Maybe it'd be easier for you if you quit being a manga artist

3-1 Eh!?

If you hate it that much, please quit. That'd free up space in the magazine

3-2 It's clear that I'm much more suited to it than you are

3-5 Kawaguchi-san, you have no idea of the meaning of effort

3-6 You've got no idea how much effort I put into it

4-1 So if I sudden reform, you'd think it'd be interesting?

Eh?

4-2 I'd be watch you working so hard, then get serious and draw manga, right?

That'd be what you want, right?

4-3 What are you trying to say...?

5-1 That kind of story where everything goes too smoothly

Ain't interesting at all!

5-2 What the hell are you saying?

5-3 That's the reason why
Even if I see you being serious, I can't draw manga!

5-4 It's the very act of not living up to your expectations!

I mean, you had no idea about me and Morishita, right?

I figured it out pretty fast

Eh!

6-1 Mind if I say something?

6-2 You don't have to live up to my expectations to finish your pages on time.

6-3 So that's an expectation too, my deadline...

6-4 It's not an expectation. It's within the scope of a hypothesis.

6-5 So if you turn things in on time occasionally, that's interesting in and of itself, right?

6-6 I see...

7-2 So, Takeda-san

7-3 Your story is that when you think of manga, you're all about becoming a manga artist

Since things are going so well for you in the beginning, if you don't have some setbacks, it'll be boring

7-4 So in your story, things should be all uphill from here. Cool, right?

7-5 So could you hurry up and help me to get in the monthly?

I'm still a newbie, so I don't have that kind of pull

8-2 Ding Dong

8-3 Someone's here!

8-4 Hey!
Don't look for excuses to leave!

8-5 You should just let Morishita handle it, right?

If you have someone to help you, let them do what they can!

8-6 Kawaguchi-san, focus!

8-7 Focus

Focus

9-1 Sempai!

9-2 Wah!

Wah!

You surprised me! [handwritten]

9-3 Wah!

9-4 This only happens in manga~~

It's interesting, right?

Too interesting! I'm gonna cry!

9-5 You got a package from your publisher

It's huge! What is it?

9-6 Because I'm always late, are they sending me something deadly...?

Manuscript [on package]

10-1 It says "manuscript", so maybe they're returning all the pages you've done so far?

Why? Are they cutting my story...?

10-2 I'm sure it's for a tankobon [a collected volume of the monthly stories]

10-3 They return it so they can have you fix any mistakes

10-4 Eh..? But I haven't heard anything about this

10-5 Wah!

10-6 Gyaaa!

2nd time [handwritten]

10-7 Waaah!

11-1 Ah
A tankobon?

11-2 It's been decided for a while, but
I just ended up returning the pages back before I called

11-3 Congratulations

Seven years after my debut...!

11-4 You'll be getting royalties! Great, huh?

No, no... Royalties? I can't believe...

11-6 Call ended

1 minute 40 seconds

12-1 Morishita!

12-2 My first tanokobon!

Yaaay!
Congratulations!

12-3 Yaaay

Yaaay

12-4 This is why when Morishita-san's here, we don't get any work done

"This is why"? Is that part of the scope of your hypothesis?

It's part of the scope.
So in order to not live up to my expectations, can I have her leave?