1. Other girls are scary.
2. I'm really bad at figuring out what they're thinking.
3. So--
4. "Maekawa!"
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1. The scariest thing is when I really start to care about another girl.
2. "Finally, after a million arguments."
3. "Meeting done?"
1. The way of the career woman is hard...
2. "You gonna keep on with engineering? Or aiming for upper management?"
3. "I know that's a joke, but I'm seriously considering it."
4. "Please don't call me that. It implies I have to be responsible."
5. "Well done, boss."
6. "I don't like responsibility! It's making work take over my life!"
7. "It's fine. As long as they keep paying me enough to fund my hedonistic lifestyle, I can deal."
8. "It's too late to start moaning now!"
2. "..."
4. "It's Maekawa!"
5. "I dunno what her deal is! Maybe it's your fault, huh!!"
6. "Apologise to her! Right now!"
7. "..."
9. "Remember, the power of friendship can overcome anything!"
1. "I can't stand you."
2. "Hello! It's me!"
3. We hung out together on Friday nights for a while...
4. But tonight I get to just watch anime in peace...
5. "What's her deal..."
6. "Well, whatever. I'm a big girl."
7. "Not gonna think about it!"
8. but I'm fine with how I am now.
10. "Feelings of companionship with real life women are but a fleeting dream~"
11. Say what you want,
2. "I'm fine just watching from the sidelines..."
3. "Who's that...?"
4. Just maybe...
5. "Mae-kawa!?"
6. "!"
1. "Aah..."
2. "Delivery for you."
3. "Oh. Thanks."
4. It's some of her manga, so technically it's kinda Maekawa?
5. Discover Maekawa's darkest, most hidden literary secrets to bully her with!
7. "Alright!"
8. "Time to read these, and..."
9. The plot's pretty cliched...
10. This was her debut? Jeez. How old was she?
11. Her art's really crisp and neat...
2. It draws you in...
3. She's real good at those little touches...
4. But...
5. they've got this real delicateness to them...
6. the backgrounds and the characters,
7. It's not just her art that's neat,
8. She said it just took one failure to make her snap, but
9. I can't believe she'd give up on what she's got here that easily...
1. Deep down,
2. Mae-kawa,
3. are you sure you don't wanna be saved from yourself?
4. "She blew me off, it's not my fau..."
5. "this suuucks"
6. "Kind of the opposite!"
7. "It's not like she asked for help!"
8. "oh my god. did i just think that."
2. "Who is this?"
3. "Hello?"
4. I haven't actually called her before! This is making me nervous for no real reason!!
5. "Anyway. What do you need me for?"
6. "Uh, umm, well--"
7. "What exactly do you expect when you call someone's mobile?"
8. "Ah. Uh. Shit."
9. "It's actually you."
1. "I just... wanted to hear your voice..."
3. "Don't you hang up on me!"
4. "Also, aren't you kinda... different?"
5. "Well, it's my turn to be the weirdo stalker..."
6. "Hmmmm? So? Why are you here? It's pretty late, you realise."
7. "Thank you for the prank call earlier."
8. "Wao!"
10. "Oww! Boo!"
2. "Please teach me how to make good manga!!"
3. "But I came to ask you something!"
4. "Aw, c'mon, at least hear me out!!"
5. "Or do you want me to start a live reading of your manga out here, huh!!?"
6. "No."
7. "Uh,"
8. "So you read them..."
9. "So,"
10. "Please don't do that to my neighbours."
11. My bluff worked.
1. "I don't read shoujo manga much, but!!"
2. "It was pretty great."
3. "You were really really good at it!"
4. "I don't know about that! To me, it felt really Maekawa-ish!!"
5. "Anyone could have done what I did."
6. "The advantage of manga just being your hobby is that you can draw whatever you want, right..."
7. "Which is why I'm begging you!"
8. "Please stop."
9. "It didn't read like something anyone could have done."
2. "Like how this inspired me so much I came around to beg on your floor!"
3. "And what I want is to jack some of your style for my stuff!"
4. "And I wanna make it inspire and move people like you do!"
5. "Please explain that in normal person."
6. "Plus, I mean, if I make that good content for my ship with the spicy prompts, maybe I'll attract some more galaxy brain geniuses to my fandom..."
7. "Hah..."
8. "I see how it is..."
1. "You're too passionate, is the problem. You get too overexcited while drawing so your stuff ends up hard to read."
2. "Start with the basics."
3. "You don't wanna teach me anything!"
4. "And that's just an excuse."
5. "That adds texture!!"
6. "Well, let's start by practicing how to draw parallel lines."
7. "You can watch and read as many tutorials as you want, but the real learning is the trial and error of actually doing it."
8. "Look, if you're so good at this, why don't you tell me how to do it right?"
9. That was always my favourite part of the whole experience.
10. "Yeah you do."
11. "That's because I don't actually know, either..."
2. "Um,"
3. "well..."
4. "Hmm. There's a question."
5. "You don't agree, Shimizu-san?"
6. "..."
7. "I really respect your way of doing stuff."
8. "Too messy."
9. "Huhhhh!?"
10. "Try again."
1. "Expressing emotions isn't just monologuing about them and making a face."
2. "!?"
3. "See. Look at what you're doing."
4. "If this is enough to bore you, you're never going to get any better..."
5. "I'm getting bored! Gimme something else to practice!"
6. "You're drawing living, breathing human beings,"
7. "Start observing the world and the people around you more, please."
8. "And then from that, just one boring moment in your life, the lines and the strokes start coming, and a story is born..."
9. "so even in the most boring, mundane situations,"
10. "there's always something you can learn."
2. "Mm?"
3. Giving everything I had up
4. felt so good.
1. Maekawa-sensei...
2. "You aren't allowed to go home until I think you're good enough."
3. "Oh, sensei. You're so forceful. Kyaa."
4. I think sunlight is starting to pierce my tired eyes...
5. "Ugh... What are you doing...?"
6. "Yes?"
7. "Maekawa."
8. "You're heavy..."
9. "What gives you the right to go to bed by yourself!? Huh!? Asshole!?"
2. "I mean, I wasn't ever gonna quit, I couldn't make myself do that, but,"
3. "Y'know, in the past..."
4. "something about this is"
5. "It was just me, doing everything, by myself."
6. "just a little bit fun."
7. "Like we're sharing something between us."
1. "aaaaah"
2. "uhhhh that sounded sooo duuuumb"
3. Other girls are scary.
4. I'm really bad at figuring out what they're thinking.
5. "What are you even doing...?"
6. "Nyooo, they really ARE scary...!"
7. "Oh come on, you've barely drawn any- thing!!"
8. But--
7. shimizu: fellas is it uhhhh gay if you read the girl you like's old shoujo series
8. anyway im glad maekawa doesn't fall into the mark crilley line of art tutorials
9. also volume 1 of Still Sick is on sale now! get it at amazon.co.jp or other jp book sources!