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| Watase's current status is that of total exhaustion. (Can you see it by looking at the website?) Oh, the 2-hour Zettai Kareshi Drama Special will be aired on 3/24....and will merge with the start of the rebroadcasting. At least of that "Zettai Kareshi." After that, in three other countries, the re-dramatization plans for the series will start, but we're only certain about one country. I hear it will be interesting if the other two countries decide to implement it. Apparently there is talk about one country turning it into a stage production? Sakura Gari... Somehow I was able to send Volume 2 to the reproduction team for release. They were probably thinking, "It's about time!!" when they looked at it. (I sent it in myself) Next time, I will send it in early. On the two pages opposite each other, I almost died it was so hard to draw. The cherry blossoms on the back never end. Sakurako's kimono never ends. Volume 2 of Arakan Gatari goes on sale the day after tomorrow, so please buy it. I've just barely uploaded the icon for a coupon to use as a purchasing bonus, so I'm sorry about that. I decided on Kannagi for the front cover, but he hardly shows up in this volume. (Well, he appears, but...) While drawing him, I was smiling and using great thrusts. Until the protagonist's pelt surfaces, I don't really have any reason to show off this guy, who is on the "bad side" that killed the secret queen. He has a delicious sort of role, and everyone fell in love with this character at my workplace. Now I leave it up to you guys. Shishunki Miman Okotowari came out in a paperback book edition...A conclusion novel is also included, making a complete version. ......It was a serialization I did when I was 20. 20 years old! I WAS ONLY 20 YEARS OLD!! SO LONG AGO!! That Watase, when she was out for her birthday, fell over and both of her hands were blood-stained and both her knees were bleeding internally from the fall. For the longest time, I was limping (even now they hurt) and it was like couldn't even wash my face or get in the bathtub. Thanks to Mikukore, the Fushigi Yuugi downloads are in good shape, and they appear to have a new design again. About Genbu Kaiden.... I'm terribly sorry. It's being postponed until next year. I will be uploading the official announcement onto the website. I was so willing to work on it, so when we decided upon the postponement, I was really depressed for several days. However, in my current circumstances, I thought I was being realistic in making the decision that it was impossible right now. It also annoyed the editorial department at Flower Comics, but I feel it won't be good for the publishing if I'm not able to concentrate well on it.
My physical condition....how do I say this...I had to bear a lot with my mother being hospitalized last year. There has been a significant amount of fatigue from going and coming and carrying out weekly publishing. Furthermore, my mother was hospitalized again last month, and hasn't left yet. I've had to focus on work with that anxiety, and when I forcibly had to return home on my own birthday, I had a magnificent breakdown while wandering aimlessly around the hospital (bitter smile).
While I was far away from her, my mind and body were fairly conflicted with the thought: "One of my parents is in the hospital--is this really the time to be drawing manga?" I barely made deadlines, and I could hardly move. So when I returned home and saw her face, I was able to calm down a little, so that was good. (Every time she went to the hospital, she would always be worried about her job, but mine was the one that was pandemomium.)
However, leaving her behind again and coming back here was a little tough.
As for manga, because the mental aspect greatly influences me (For me, it's about creating "stories," not for simply drawing pictures) I was somehow able to concentrate on drawing Arakan, but there was so much work to be done. (Somehow, I was also able to do the storyline for Sakura Gari, too, but still...)
...Well, because they're my own personal affairs, whatever I express won't change how disappointed the readers will be.
I'm really, really sorry.
After I returned to work, I got a telephone call from my mother saying, "Go for it!" When I see my own mother painfully fighting pleural fluids* among other things, I have no choice but to do battles at work on my side. Though really, I've been thinking about what "fighting while drawing" actually is. Well, to tell you the truth, this is tolerable, so I'm not discouraged. (I'm really sorry about the Genbu stuff, though...) *pleural fluids are excess fluids in the lungs.Well, last Friday, when I went through 17 pens in one day, my arm was twitching!! But that wasn't really a defeat. From here, I'm off to a meeting. Translation by Yusei (eternalprince@gmail.com) -
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| It's been a while, and it's February, so I GIVE YOU MID-WINTER GREETINGS!!!!
Because the update was delayed, people all over have been getting anxious, but it's cause everyday I've been all over the place! During the New Years holiday, I was planning to post a message, so I brought my PC over my parents' house, but every time I tried to connect, some sort of "ERROR" happened! Why do they have Flet's Hikari!?*  And if that wasn't enough, on New Year's Day, my uncle in the hospital died. A funeral.......not a joyous start to the New Year. *"Flet's Hikari" is a type of phone service in Japan I rushed to work, then did a U-turn and rushed back home, did an autograph session, did another U-turn and rushed back to work. Because I worked too hard at the end of last year, the lower back pain I forgot about (in my sciatic nerve) came back, and when I make a noise like, "Ouch! ouch!", I get stomach cramps, so my condition has been torture lately. I'm worried about my mother's physical condition as well. She's gotten worse again; her lung has become filled with fluid and half of it has stopped functioning. Being I'm so bogged down in work, I'm in a state of not knowing what to do! Another point being I DON'T KNOW HOW TO STAY OPTIMISTIC WHEN 10,000 OR MORE YEN HAS DISAPPEARED. AAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHH. I........just.....  (wriggles around) ......Gotta pull myself together. TO THOSE OF YOU WHO CAME TO THE AUTOGRAPH SIGNING!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!   I thank you for the letters and presents as well.  And the arrangement of cherry blossom goods!! Hehehe...very clever, you guys. I was happy about the CD, too! It fits my tastes perfectly! (grins happily) I listen to it while I work! Yes, even now while I'm still in the process.....  The work for Arakan Volume 2 and Sakura Gari Volume 2 comes in simultaneously. (Because both volumes are going on sale in March) Some time ago I gave them the cover for Sakura, from there, I colored the center art, and I did the cover for Arakan Volume 2......Doing this, doing that....AAAAAUUUGGGHHHH~~~! (regains composure) Oh, that's right! After Arakan was started, a business associate from the editor said that a friend and a lot of other people are saying, "It doesn't seem like the same artist that did Sakura Gari." ...It IS the same artist!!! (Why are those two being lined up...) Watase is only one person. (However, I hear that nowadays groups of artists go under one artist's name) If there was more than one of me, then things like this would be--! Even being by myself, it's causing stomach spasms and lumbago! Well, at least when one person becomes a mother, they go home. But, as expected, while observing the clean-up of both works at the same time, my head has been getting seriously confused.....What with all the chaos around me, my brain's been getting tired....  My situation is a little crazy, so I took that picture with my mobile phone. ↓ It's my view of chaos. Total chaos!!! Oh yeah, the Arakan one is an additional page. Ahh.....I gotta get back to work....
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| I've been firing things out the same way since the last entry, but can I keep giving the heave-ho without collapsing? (Really?) I'm at work. Throughout last week (after pulling two all-nighters), I handed in the 78 pages of Sakura Gari going on sale in January. At the Shogakukan thank-you party, I was only half-awake while I was attending. (The next day, I forced myself to go to bed when it occurred to me that I only remembered half of it.) Setting that aside, as an artist, I'm still trying to grasp something (sort of?) with feeling in the manuscript. Early next year, I'm doing an 18-day autograph session in Osaka! (Hahahahaha!) However, I needed to request at Sunday Journal in advance. So I chose Osaka because it's my hometown. It's hopeless, I'm so tired! After I finish the storyboard, I still have a little bit of one story left! That's the current writing situation over here! Oh--I meant to reply to a friend by cell phone email!!! I'm sorry!! I'm doing well! (That's a little bit of a lie, but...) I wonder if I'll have time at the end of the year.....hm.....  Translation by Yusei (eternalprince@gmail.com) -
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| I posted some news on the last entry that had not been finalized, so to be on the safe side, I deleted it. I'm really sorry if I edit the other entries! From now on, I'll post things like that after I get the proper confirmation. The drinking cups I mentioned in the previous entry will be on sale on 12/5 on Sho-Comi, but as I thought, they will be sold over the internet. After I (was forced) to change the previous entry, I had a sharp pain in my stomach that spread to my intestines, and then to my whole body, making my condition excruciating. I thought, "This is probably serious." Although I lied down, my breathing became rigorous and shallow, and as soon as the word "ambulance" came to mind, my hands and feet immediately went cold. Rather than getting sleepy, my consciousness became distant, and for the first time, I became aware of the difference from my normal condition. "MAYBE THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE IF YOU FALL ASLEEP, YOU'LL BE FOUND DEAD THE NEXT DAY."  A little bit like an avalanche situation: "If you fall asleep, you'll die!!!" As I started thinking things like... "This is bad! I've used all my time on that Arakan comic cover!" "Because I did up to 15 stories, would those last two volumes go out at the last minute? As memorial books?" "I'm still in the middle of Genbu and Sakura Gari!" "'Would Sakura be warped into my 'worst storyboard ever published...?" "The Fushigi Yuugi fans would be so angry~" "Would Ashi-san be the one to find me?" .....I was slowly able to breathe easier, and warmth returned to my hands, so I fell asleep peacefully. FOR RIGHT NOW, I'M A LITTLE SLUGGISH, BUT AT LEAST I'M ALIVE.
I took a day off--no questions asked. (Would you be able to cope if I died?)
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| Ahhhh! Suddenly, my stomach hurts! Ow, ow, ow, ow..... I'm in between things~!  Well, I'm STILL in the middle of working on the manuscript. I've been doing it for about two weeks now! Oof...As expected, my stomach is exhausted. I finished 3 storylines for Arakan, so right now I'm doing the 6th story for Sakura Gari.I will do my best. Ashi-san will do her best. I haven't wrote about Fushigi Yuugi stuff in a while. "Suzaku - Seiryuu" and "Genbu" drinking cups will be on sale on Sho-Comi Net (?). (Really? Wow.) Ow. My back already hurts, so I'm going to bed. I need to rest. It's been like this for about two weeks now. (It's probably better if I take a day off next week to rest...  ) Right now, I'm working on volume 1 of Arakan at the same time as Sakura Gari.It will be on sale next year on 1/16! There will be an omake manga attached to it~. (it may be a serialization?).......So, before the year is over, if I do two stories, I should have two and a half volumes finished, right?..... Translation by Yusei (eternalprince@gmail.com) -
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|  Yesterday, I was forced to cancel the coloring work on the jacket for the Zettai Kareshi drama CD, (It's because I had too many deadlines in September!) I tried really hard, but in the middle of working on it, I had a sharp pain in my right elbow. Darn pen cramps! "Oh god, what an ordeal!! " It felt better when I massaged it, but even while doing that, it already became nightfall! Wow, 22 hours have already passed--I need sleep! (What am I, a child?) After morning comes, I get so drowsy and it becomes impossible to work.... Well, since I'm up early, I somehow need to survive until the afternoon business meeting... somehow... A few days ago, the posters for the drama CD and the television drama DVD were sent to me.  The illustration for the CD poster was blown up far too much!! (laughs) I assume they finished up on the dubbing for it yesterday. My participation was extremely limited this time. The DVD will be on sale on 11/5, before the CD. Will it be the treasured bonus footage that Mizushima-san gathered, or perhaps the explosive laughs that ensued when the drama launched? （＾ー＾）Either way, it's worth seeing. Oh yeah, that's right! It seems there are plans to turn Zettai Kareshi into a successful television program in other countries next year. I'm keeping my eye on the business proposals, but there's the whole matter of it moving further away from the original manga idea (if it isn't already). This will be interesting. If the program is broadcast without any problems, I wonder if they'll re-import it back to Japan--that would be nice. I MUST COLOR~! Oh no, I'm sleepy... | |
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| Oh? The counter has surpassed what used to be previous record. Did everyone happen to watch the drama? (Why am I speaking so politely...)*** Yeah. You probably will think this is a joke, but... AT 9:00, I WAS OUT ATTENDING THE GENBU MEETING, SO I WAS NOT ABLE TO SEE THE BROADCAST!
And I'm the original author!!! Lately I've been returning home exhausted and feeling so dizzy! I made a video recording of it, but between coloring and working on names, I had absolutely no spare time to watch it! However, an email came from a friend as well as one of the people involved with it, and apparently "It was funny." ALL RIGHT!*** She's using very polite speech for this sentence as opposed to how she normally speaks.Translation by Yusei (eternalprince@gmail.com) -
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| Ugh... It's impossible to color 5 sheets within two days time.It's also impossible to get people to procrastinate for me. Um~ just now, the business meeting about the site ended~ We're proceeding with the color of the novel~ After this, the manuscript~Tantou-san will come and pick it up~ In the evening, I have two hours worth of things to do~ I still have to go home and color~ Tomorrow, there's a meeting about Genbu~ Wednesday and Thursday, I have to work on names~ Friday, there's another meeting about the serialization~ Saturday, I have to do a rough sketch ~ From Sunday on, Ashi-san is coming in. If I can get it done in the the first half of the 5 days, this weekend, is the hanami (flower-watching festival) in Toohoku~ Well~ uh~ ...........uh~.....  DOES IT REALLY HAVE TO BE THIS WAY?! MY SCHEDULE IS TO THE BITTER END! I MUST DO IT, NO MATTER HOW CRAPPY IT IS!
The site update will go as planned. For G. W. , the other contents should be able to surround it~. Not being able to see on this old PC, a Mac OS 9, is inexcusable. I'm gonna stop inserting the blog into the site. I think people will read it if I leave it here.  Translation by Yusei (eternalprince@gmail.com) -
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