Now That We Draw - Vol. 2 Ch. 9

[TennoSoul]

FINALLY

 

[nidaime]

Dude lock yourself in a room doin' five beats a day for three summers

 

[NishaAzalea]

The mom had a mole on the right side of her face on the first panel we see her in, but the next one that shows a close up of her face it's gone... Where did it go? 🤔

 

[dementati]

This chapter feels very Japanese in the sense that the moral of the story is to work hard. The MC felt like giving up after receiving 5 rejections, but turns out the FL has been drawing hundreds and hundreds of storyboards and it wasn't talent but rather hard work that got her to where she is. Which isn't wrong or anything, you certainly can't get discouraged after 5 failures when you're learning a craft. But something I feel is often missing or lacking from these kinds of Japanese portrayals of the pursuit of mastery is working smart. You can waste a lot of time and energy for not much benefit and actually cause harm to yourself and others if you overwork yourself in a dumb way. Drawing 500 storyboards isn't going to make his manga good automatically. You need to use that time and effort constructively. And if you do work smart, you may not need such a shocking amount of work to succeed. But the Japanese idea of mastery on the one hand seems to disregard this aspect of practice, and in fact even go so far as to dismiss any suggestion that mastery is even possible without long grueling hours of blood, sweat and tears. And I think this just isn't very efficient or healthy a lot of the time.

 

[DocAres]

Fuck im feeling the chapter with the grandma death from miles away, dont take off our smile too fast author pls

 

[NerimaShinjuku]

It was jarring to go from cute child Niina drawing for her grandma to high school Niina ass-up on the very next page