Boku wo Shirita Sugiru Shimizu-san - Vol. 2 Ch. 10

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It's a small issue, but I always feel a tad concerned when the characters directly base their manga on their relationships, mostly because it implies that the character isn't creative or confident enough to make it work on their own. Write what you know, certainly, but if your success is solely due to your own romance, then you won't find much success as a mangaka. At best, you'll have bottled lightning and have a single long-runner that'll eventually mellow out and end as your relationship matures. At worst, you'll end up crashing and burning after writing an ending like Gal Cleaning because of a messy breakup.

I'm overthinking it, and they'd hopefully be experienced enough to work with something else by the time they romcom ends, but it still makes me a bit uncomfortable thinking about how things will go down the line. Oh well, on to the next one.
 
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It's a small issue, but I always feel a tad concerned when the characters directly base their manga on their relationships, mostly because it implies that the character isn't creative or confident enough to make it work on their own. Write what you know, certainly, but if your success is solely due to your own romance, then you won't find much success as a mangaka. At best, you'll have bottled lightning and have a single long-runner that'll eventually mellow out and end as your relationship matures. At worst, you'll end up crashing and burning after writing an ending like Gal Cleaning because of a messy breakup.

I'm overthinking it, and they'd hopefully be experienced enough to work with something else by the time they romcom ends, but it still makes me a bit uncomfortable thinking about how things will go down the line. Oh well, on to the next one.
A very famous and nasty example of an author having based the story on someone IRL was the author of To-Love-Ru, who based one of the main heroines on his own wife.

Who then cheated on him, and then they had a very nasty divorce, causing him to go into a long hiatus.
 
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A very famous and nasty example of an author having based the story on someone IRL was the author of To-Love-Ru, who based one of the main heroines on his own wife.

Who then cheated on him, and then they had a very nasty divorce, causing him to go into a long hiatus.
Oh, isn't that a blast from the past. I had completely forgotten about that entire debacle, but you are right; that was a perfect example of what I'm talking about.
 
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A very famous and nasty example of an author having based the story on someone IRL was the author of To-Love-Ru, who based one of the main heroines on his own wife.

Who then cheated on him, and then they had a very nasty divorce, causing him to go into a long hiatus.
Bro your comment make my intrusive thought think that this is prequel to 18+ ntr stuff. :meguuusad:
 
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Thanks for your work on this.

It was cute but the MC was too much of a beta male.
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