1. "Please, don't worry about it!"
3. "We've already got a sub in for the next issue."
4. "Just take care of yourself for now!"
5. "I'm really sorry..."
6. I wish she'd told me sooner, but...
7. "Let's..."
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1. "Let's knock 'em out with next month's!"
2. but if she quits now,
3. I know I'm not the one drawing here,
4. What purpose do I even have?
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1. "Have a good night!"
2. "Night!"
3. An editor has to stick with their author, no matter what, through thick and thin.
4. "If any of them inspire you at all, then we can try to..."
5. "I tried thinking up some ideas for future plotlines myself!"
6. "Tsuda-san,"
7. "I see..."
1. "do I look like I'm going to "knock 'em out"?"
2. "I just don't support you enough."
3. "An editor and an author are in this together! It's a three legged race, and I need to pull my weight more..."
4. "If anything, you try too hard to, Maekawa-san!"
5. "What are you talking about!?"
1. "Ah."
2. Another fake smile.
3. "I'll definitely talk more in the future."
4. "I'm sorry."
5. "...I see what you mean."
6. What do I do...
9. "I'm an awful, awful man..."
10. "I really just left her alone."
11. "When I said I lost contact with her,"
1. "The author I'm working with wants to do something about street performing."
2. "What are you doing..."
3. "Am I really the right person to work with her now that she's back...?"
4. "Suffering is what maketh the man, or woman, no? Can't you see the bright side?"
5. "I'm not like you, Toudou..."
6. "Actually, Toudou."
7. "I have a favour to ask."
1. "Mhm."
2. "I'm thinking it over."
3. "I have to consider how it's going to affect my current work, too..."
4. "I am practicing the way of the ascetic to avoid constant temptation..."
5. "Shimizu-san, do you enjoy the sensation of kneeling on wood?"
6. "Ehh?!"
7. "You're taking tomorrow afternoon off in order to go the publisher, aren't you!? I'm trying to listen to your problems, aren't I!?"
8. "This isn't the problem I'm dealing with here!"
9. "I don't see what the problem is~"
10. "You managed to talk your way out of when we got walked in on."
11. "Ohooo..."
1. "And I want to be distracted from my worries."
2. "Stop that! I'm trying to be a good confidante!"
3. "Then distract yourself!"
4. "C'mon! I'm still not used to all, uh, this!"
5. "Well, I'm done talking for now."
6. "Now we're going out, you've maybe started to hold back a little too much."
7. "When your system is a buggy mess, sometimes you just need to upgrade the framework to restore functionality, you know?"
8. "... Yeeees...?"
9. "Um..."
10. When Maekawa's [Sadistic Intent] is activated, increase "Horny" by 1...
1. "I'd like if"
2. "I could make up with my old editor, too..."
3. "Please stop reminding me about work."
4. "Just because you've released the product doesn't mean you're done."
5. "You need to do your best to keep the updates coming, make sure that firmware remains, well, firm."
6. "Fight, Maekawa, fight!"
7. "But, well, take it at your own pace~"
8. "Will doooo."
9. "He was a very genuine kind of person, but..."
10. "Yeah, I bet having an author-cum-escape-artist for a charge wasn't great either..."
11. "You know, things start building up, it gets harder to talk..."
1. "Here we go."
2. Take it easy. My own pace.
3. Nerves are setting in.
1. "Eh?! Um... Good to see you again."
2. "Where's Tsuda—"
3. "For reasons,"
1. "Pleased to be working with you!!"
2. "Is me, Toudou!"
3. "Maekawa-sensei, your new editor"
4. "There's no time, Maekawa-sensei! To the meeting room!"
5. "Excuse me a moment. Where's Toudou—"
6. He can bring out the best points of the authors he works with. He makes hits.
7. "I'm so sorry, Maekawa-san!"
8. But no matter how you slice it, Toudou is the best of the best...
9. Certainly more than me...
1. "Maybe you'd be better off dedicating yourself to being a company woman after all."
2. "No progress! No artistic development!! No soul!!!"
3. Toudou-san, you absolute-
4. "Why did you come here, anyway?"
5. "Come on-"
6. "I don't have time to go along with some hackish ego trip."
1. "She's not your pet project any more."
2. "Please refrain from running your mouth."
3. "Tsuda-san!"
4. "What do you think you're doing, Toudou-san!?"
5. "I asked you for a favour, not for you to emotionally harass her!"
6. "She's a sensitive soul, though!"
7. "C'mon, praise her just a bit!!"
8. "Ahem..."
1. "Could you tell me what's not working?"
2. "There's no feeling of reality, of earnestness, in the work."
3. "You play clear favourites with your actors."
4. "It's the same issue you see in any young talent's immature debut,"
5. "but you're a different woman now, aren't you?"
1. "Eh..."
2. "And now I think I want to draw in a way that'll shove your face down into the dirt, Toudou-san."
3. "...I see what you're trying to say."
4. "Do you see what I mean here?"
5. "What you've shown me so far is ways to continue your old work, but we don't know if we'll even bring it back to the magazine."
6. "Sorry for all this!"
7. "Ah, sure..."
8. "Tsuda-san! Thank you for worrying about me! I'll knock 'em dead!!"
9. "Yes!"
1. "What does he think this is, a fighting shounen...?"
2. "Maybe those two actually work together well..."
3. She's
4. definitely changed.
1. Wow, I'm tired...
2. I told Shimizu I was done, but...
3. No. I can't rely on her spoiling me.
4. That doesn't help anyone.
5. "Welcome home!"
1. "My last meeting went on waaay too long, so I only just got back myself..."
2. "Good girl."
3. "Shake."
4. "W-what!?"
5. "Eh?"
6. "We were having a bit of good old departmental infighting about the current project..."
7. "I dunno why..."
1. but I guess we've all got different ideals and approaches and stuff...
2. "We all wanna make something good, y'know..."
3. "I know what you mean..."
4. "Well, yes, but."
5. "Do you mean about me or—"
6. "What's up, Maekawa?"
7. "You have to keep heading forward or it'll all be for nothing."
8. "It's all the little things..."
1. "Shimizu, you have a drawing tablet, right? Could you let me borrow it?"
2. "Perhaps, perhaps."
3. "Ehh, why?"
4. "But even if it's for the sake of your work,"
5. "It hurts when someone talks you down."
6. "I want to draw your faves for you."
7. "Huh...?"
1. "Tou-dou-san..."
2. "I'm sorry, I'm absolutely lost here."
3. "Yes."
4. "Hm."
5. over 10,000 views already...
6. "It looks like there's real buzz on social media that Maekawa-sensei might be back..."
7. "I'm also looking at how to manage that stuff, but..."
8. "Well, that's something to be thankful for, isn't it?"
14. That people still remember her even now.
1. Wow. He smiled!
2. "Hm."
3. "Tou-dou-san,"
4. "I don't think we can expect a mangaka"
5. "to improve all by themself."
6. "We've got to up our game to match them too."
1. "Uh, yes? Of course?"
2. "Uh?"
3. "Well, I'm sure it'll all work out."
4. "Ah, no... just... good luck with Maekawa-san..."
5. "I'll show you!!"
6. "Gosh, Maekawa, you stud, draw my girls again! Again~!"
3. TL Rankarana
4. Cleaning/TSing Martin
5. QC rainsofmay
6. Still Sick Chapter 16
7. we're not dead! in fact, we're gonna catch up! no, seriously! for real this time!
8. also toudou is probably not gonna be well liked but i think he's funney.......... the next arc is very much maekawa and manga-centric which i think is kinda neat
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