1. "Maekawa-sensei."
4. "Your corrections, everything you're saying, you're not wrong,"
5. "but..."
7. "Hold on!! I have one more thing to say!!"
8. "I have another meeting to get to, if you'll excuse me—"
9. "It seems my advice still isn't taking root."
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1. And, anyway, I'd come here on the pretense I'd be working with Tsuda-san...
2. "I'm arguing precisely because you're such an important part of the process."
3. "I don't understand why you, an author, continue to have zero faith in your editor."
4. "I don't know. I simply answered the call."
5. "Why did they put you in charge?!"
6. Who would have thunk it. Editors normally just love working with mangaka who disappear off the face of the earth halfway through their own series.
7. I guess Tsuda and I didn't part on the best of terms...
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1. "Well, we all have our reasons, don't we. I'm not that easy to convince."
2. "I'm purely speculating, here."
3. "W-well, that's... I am aware that that might not have been the wisest thing to do..."
4. "Then why?"
1. "I will make that food for the fans...!! I will feed myself!"
2. They might have only had that one scene together in the show,
3. But that just means
4. "If I keep going at this pace, I might even be able to put out a bonus book for the next event, too~"
5. "You've been rabid lately!"
6. "What are you taking out on me!?"
7. "'Cuz my meetings at the publisher aren't going wellll..."
8. "Waaah!"
1. "A new series?"
2. "So far I've been trying to continue my old manga, but..."
3. "It's not working."
4. "Hmm..."
5. "Well, I did just up and disappear on them."
6. "I'm not sure why I thought I could just return like nothing's changed..."
7. "Please compare and consider."
9. "I'm taking all of Toudou-san's fixes and ideas into account, but..."
10. "I agree!"
11. "I mean, that's all the more reason you should get back to the old series!"
1. "Issat so."
2. "Maybe if you had a really good oneshot, you could force your way back into serialisation..."
3. "So the return of the old series might be off the cards."
4. "I really don't want to just do as he says."
5. "I'm just stuck on trying to fix the same story, aren't I? I don't even know what I want to do with it..."
6. "But do you really want to pick the old series back up?"
7. "Hmm..."
8. "Don't ask me!"
9. "What should I do?"
1. I can't really answer them.
2. "Motifs?"
3. "Themes?"
5. "You keep acting like this story is important to you, but what do you actually want to write about?"
6. "If you don't like my input, then show me what you have in mind."
7. His questions really get down to the fine details, but...
8. He just keeps asking me over and over again why I want to draw.
9. Maybe I should just start a new series...
10. "Hey..."
11. He's really starting to wear away at my confidence...
12. I know I'm at fault here, but...
1. "jerkass"
2. "And Toudou's the dude who I decked at that event, right?"
3. "Are we really counting on his opinion?"
4. "You've put in blood, sweat and tears to get this far with your storyboards!"
5. "Don't just give in like that!"
6. "He's been the man behind the curtains on a lot of best-selling manga, though. If he weren't,"
7. "I wouldn't be putting up with him,"
8. "and now, I just want to make something that even he's impressed by."
9. "If you did a new manga, would you have to change publishers?"
10. "mhm."
1. "But if my dropped series ends up being more popular, I imagine I'd feel a little bit weird..."
2. "Some of the stuff you put online before lead to you getting offers from other publishers, right?"
3. "Yeah... I know what you mean..."
4. "Mhm..."
5. "Well... I'm not sure if we're exactly able to work together on a single series, but..."
6. "Another publisher might let you take stuff at your own pace a bit more though, right?"
7. "I do feel as if Toudou actually wants to see me reach my true potential..."
8. "I just think, man, Toudou sucks. Not the right guy for the job."
1. "Halt!"
2. "Down this way lies only self-neglect and suffering!"
3. "That's enough manga for one day!"
4. "No!"
5. "So I really want to try and make this work..."
6. "I want to prove him wrong as soon as I can!"
7. "...guh!"
1. "This is just how you burnt out before!"
2. "I can't stand by and let you do that!"
3. "You shouldn't draw just to prove some editor wrong."
4. Think about what they're telling you,
5. and go back to what you've wanted to do.
1. I'm just driving myself crazy...
2. I need to look over the suggestions Toudou made, and go back to what I want to do...
3. "Ah."
1. "Did you finally put two and two together?"
2. "A lot happened back then, you know..."
3. "Mm. Yeah."
4. "Some of my advice comes from what Tsuda came up with years back."
5. "And?"
6. "I read over the suggestions..."
7. "and realised that there might have been some points there..."
8. "I like to think so, too."
9. "It tends to be the case."
10. "I want to apologize..."
11. "To Tsuda."
12. "Even though I ran away,"
13. "He kept on trying to do something..."
1. Manga's the same way, you know. People don't know about the process.
2. "Well, it is what it is. He didn't get results."
3. It doesn't matter how you suffer for your art. People ultimately care about the result.
4. "I think this is about me, isn't it..."
5. And that's why you should leave your achievements as they are.
1. "I"
2. "want to write a new series, too."
3. "...Mm."
4. "You know,"
5. "Is that so?"
6. "even though no-one's going to see it,"
7. "I think my creative process has been pretty interesting."
8. "There's so much of our world to be found"
9. "in places no-one can see..."
10. "And what of it?"
11. "I almost died!"
1. "I want to write a story"
2. "I'm happy to hear it."
3. "that brings the light to that darkness. I want to show people what's there."
1. "No, I just wanted to say that, I don't actually-"
2. "That's fine."
3. "So, with that concept in mind, start brainstorming."
4. "Who's our protagonist?"
5. "What are the themes?"
6. "Uhm?"
7. "There's something inside you, Maekawa. And I want to read the story you want to tell."
8. "We're going ahead with the new series."
1. "Tsuda-san."
2. "That was very poetic of you..."
3. "hmm..."
4. "I'm not taking this project the whole way to the finish line."
5. "I just had someone I didn't want to make worry any longer, you could say."
6. "You shouldn't stay hands-off the whole way."
7. "You're the one worried about her."
8. "Eh... are you sure I'm the right guy for the job..."
9. "You really have a way with words..."
1. "Oh, really—"
2. "I'm doing a new series."
3. "Wow! Nice powerup! Glad my house is some kinda time chamber!"
4. "I talked to Toudou-san,"
5. "and he really got me thinking..."
6. "..."
7. "Well, that's good, I... think?"
1. "Shimizu-san?"
2. "You're staying the night, you know."
3. "Maekawa,"
4. "...Ah."
1. "I love you."
2. "Uh..."
3. "Eh?"
4. "I'm aware at this point, but..."
1. "Well, bed time!"
2. "Don't stay up too late! Make sure you take a bath!"
3. "Ah... mm."
1. Now that I think about it,
2. did I ever tell her I love her...?
6. Still Sick Chapter 17
7. i'm soooo glad maekawa dropped her old series honestly. both symbolically and emotionally it makes more sense and, well, wait until you see the premise of her new manga--
8. also i forgot to thank martin!! they're the reason we're getting these out both so quickly AND they look so good!!