Fool's Love

If it's something Masumi wants to do, I think I can work a little harder.

The day after I returned to Osaka, I received a text message from Mr. Nakajima.Nakajima-san was embarrassed to lose his composure when we met for the first time, so I simply wrote back and said "No, please don't take it to heart".In my opinion, this is actually not a big thing that needs a special apology.

For a full week after that, the comic went nowhere.Masumi and I read through the draft of "Ono-san" several times, compared it with the manga at home and the teaching on the Internet, and made changes as soon as we found possible improvements.

This kind of thing is very boring to do, so it should be done when you have been given a booster and have infinite longing.Including the details of the plot, they will also be resolved during this period.

My idea is: rely on this work to finalize the final word.For this reason, it’s not enough to make a work that I can’t even believe I made. (After I became a manga artist, I finally realized that excessive perfectionism can sometimes get in the way. But we were all so naive back then).

I have been drawing like this for a long time, the actual progress has not changed at all, and my mood has become hot and dry with the rising temperature of the summer thermometer.

Turn on the air conditioner to the maximum, and the machine running at the highest power makes the sound of blowing air.Masumi sat on the edge of my bed, and I sat cross-legged on the floor with a popsicle in my mouth.

Ah——this is probably the so-called "burnout period"!

There are periods of burnout in everything.If it is said that there is a period of burnout when facing people who are difficult to understand, it is natural to feel tired of such a constant thing as "work".

Right now, for the first time, I am getting tired of the manga that has been regarded as ideal until now, even if it is only for a short time.

Take a break!Thinking of this, I put one hand on the floor behind me, raised my head slightly to my side, and looked at the male high school student in a T-shirt sitting there.

"Speaking of which, Masumi has always grown her hair."

"Huh? Yes."

He subconsciously stroked his hair.Because of the hot weather, he tied up his slightly fluffy hair with a rubber band and put it in a ponytail behind his neck.

"I really like it like this. Because I've been used to keeping it, I think it's good. Or is it that Yamagishi thinks short hair is better?"

"Then... no, look. It would be cool if you had short hair, right?"

"Having said that, it feels like it would be okay without cutting it short."

"really? Haha……"

Originally, I just wanted to ask.I really like Masumi's hair, it reminds me of a stuffed animal.

If Masumi wanted to cut his hair short just now on a whim, I would not know what to do.

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly felt something cold being handed to his thigh.I didn't even notice when the popsicles melted, so I quickly wiped off the white sugar milk with my hands.

"Hmm... I don't really want to draw manga right now."

Masumi’s words are exactly what I feel in my heart.I stood up, and there was only a small piece of popsicle left.

Last bite.While licking the wooden stick, he pulled it out of his mouth, and there was nothing left on it.I threw the stick into the trash can.

"Let's rest for a while and then continue." With that said, I also sat on the edge of the bed and took out my mobile phone, "How about watching a manga show together for a while?"

"SARABA". "

Masumi said.Those two had channels on Youtube and uploaded many theater videos.I found that channel, and just followed the video upload list one by one, not only forgot the time, but also forgot the original purpose of "just take a break, and continue drawing manga for a while", the two portraits Laughing like a child kept rolling on the spot.

Suddenly, Masumi who was lying next to me suddenly asked me.

"How about we play it too?"

"The one you watched just now?"

"Correct."

"I can't remember the lines."

"If you can't remember the part, just fool around."

I feel dizzy, probably because it's summer.The two stood in the middle of the room and played it bumping against each other. It felt that the charm was much different. It was so much fun to learn word by word from the video.

It was a skit-type manga, that is, a scene was added at the beginning, and the two performed the short play with the characters in the scene.

When making complaints, jump out of that scene and make complaints from the perspective of a mancai teacher.As for the content of Mancai, it is about the time when I went to the forest school.

Masumi pretended to be stupid, and I made fun of it.After the two talked for a few paragraphs, Masumi was suddenly discouraged.

"Ah! I really can't imitate their feeling."

"No way, the manga of the two of them is very difficult."

The two people in the group seem to have talked about Mancai together since high school, and they have a tacit understanding.

In addition to speaking fast, the cooperation between the two is also amazing.In the jokes they wrote, there are often fragments of "showing skills", which gives people a feeling of "ah, it's not the two of them that can't act well".Same thing this time.

"I also said that I want to find a suitable manga talent, and after practice, maybe I can perform at school celebrations and other occasions."

I couldn't laugh or cry: "Do you want to be a manga so much?"

"I thought of it when I happened to pass by a suit shop before." He said, "If you don't try it now, you may not have a chance in the future. Anyway, Yamagishi doesn't reject talking about Mancai, does he?"

Talking about comics is one aspect... To be honest, I am still a little scared about performing on stage.But if it’s something Masumi wants to do, I think I can work a little harder.

"However, I don't think it's good to act other people's comics. Besides, the style of "SARABA"... I always feel that we can't learn it. "

"Yamagishi means, do we write the manga ourselves?"

"Ah."

Two people who usually only eat food suddenly want to cook for themselves - that's where we are now.

Staring at the knives in the kitchen in a daze, one called "playing stupid" and the other called "tucao".

I usually see other people using these two knives to cut a whole piece of fish into thin sashimi, but when it comes to wielding the knives myself, I don't even know the gesture of holding the knives.

So I had to go to Youtube and search for "Easy Manga Writing" videos made by professional comedians.

"Ah, I know the manga artist who makes the video. It must be Mr. Ike Tim from "EasyGoing". "

I know that too.They are famous.They won the M1 comic talent championship before, and then they did not use it as a springboard to break away from comic talent, but concentrated on working in the theater. They can release novel and interesting comic talent every time they show.

Watching Mr. Chi Tian's commentary video, he kept saying "Oh, so that's the case", and looked at the comics that the two of them usually perform, and gained a deeper understanding.After that, I really entered the stage of writing my own manga.

The theme of Mancai can be "fever".I just experienced it some time ago, and it was very impressive.

I want to be taken care of during the fever, but the one who takes care of me is a guy who has no common sense and thinks out of line... With such a setting.

Maybe it's because I usually have enough reserves of funny shows, once I get started, I feel extremely familiar when I write them.

I didn't even get stuck during the period, what should the next sentence say?

After discussing with Masumi for a while, a decision can be made immediately.In the end, I acted out the written manga with Masumi once.

After the performance, Masumi and I fell into silence at the same time.

"It feels like... something is missing," I said.

"It feels... like BL Mancai." Masumi said.

There was no problem at all when I wrote it, but I realized that it was full of mistakes and omissions when I actually said it.

Rhythm, careful consideration of words... the whole manga is like a sieve.If you can't balance these aspects, it will never be interesting to the listener.

"It's still easier to draw manga..."

"Um……"

I don't want to admit its source, but I finally rekindled my passion to continue painting.