Kazuya Minekura's blog, 2011/02/15

[snarp]

This is the first of two posts that went up today; I may not have time to work on the second one until next week, if someone else wants to do it.

Things I wasn't sure about are in gray text. And I really wasn't sure about that last sentence; I'd appreciate it if someone else would take a look at it.

February Status Report

It's Minekura. Sorry for dumping a big empty space here. (sweat)

It's because I've been on bed rest - I lie, it's actually because I've been incredibly busy. I know I'm worrying people, but I've already been working on editing, project-planning, making 10 color pages (what?), and a bunch of other things! It's been about a year since the postrecording. I'm feeling well. Well, no, I'm not feeling well, but my days are stabilizing. I've gotten good at using my artificial jaw. I'm still really messed up and in a lot of discomfort, but when I'm working I can forget about all that. Things are better.

At the end of last year, when there were all these shock headlines saying "Kazuya Minekura's Face Collapses!", I started hearing from a lot of people - old acquaintances, friends from out of town - and even having people go out of their way to come see me. Somehow I started feeling lucky...? (laugh) An older man who got the same jaw removal surgery I did years ago sent me some advice; since it's such a rare procedure, that was really encouraging.

At first the facial collapse was as bad as when Koriki Choushuu becomes collapsed-in-the-oven-Koriki-Choushuu*. The scars are still in the process of shrinking, so we don't know how much I'm going to collapse, but the pain and itchiness drives me crazy every day. I don't mind the pain so much, but the itching is torture. (bitter laugh)

...In other news, as I mentioned before, becase of the effect on my right eye, sometimes, when doing fiddly work, my eyes won't focus. So for a while I'll be coloring using the Copics less and the computer more. - well, I've actually already done several pictures with Copics and colored pencils, but it turns out that it's a lot less strain to work on the computer, where I can blow a small detail up to fill the whole screen... Personally I prefer working with Copics, because they're faster, so I hope to use them when I'm feeling up to it.

I've started working on things other than painting (writing and stuff). Before I can go back to working on manga, I think I need to study and absorb and grow bigger (not bodily, but as a person) - like I'm doing a study abroad. Please keep an eye on me, everyone.

* Koriki Choushuu is a comedian; I assume she's referring to some kind of sketch he does here, but Google is not helping me.

Edited next morning to fix messed-up gray-out tags. Sorry!

Comments

[flemmings]

Thanks very for translating and posting. What guts that woman has.