O Ukoku

[louiselux]

Nii is bisexual! I think we really all might've had the teensiest inkling about this anyway, but athena8 very kindly translated the bit in Saiyuubito where he says so, in typically charming manner. Minekura also says some really adorable things about Gojyo and also really astonishing things about how she plots, like at the last minute! I don't know why I'm so shocked by that, but I kind of am.

Anyway, besides being astonished, being able read what she thinks about her characters just makes me very very happy.

Comments

[athena8.livejournal.com]

Hey! Thanks for the shoutout. X)

A lot of manga artists do plot on the fly, and you can see that by watching how their stories evolved. But I would not have suspected that of Minekura, so it surprised me, too! I should probably write this part out in more detail in another post because it's pretty interesting, but she says when she started writing Saiyuki, she didn't have any game plan at all! And even the flashback scenes she wrote in the first chapter were 'made up' - and she later came up with a story to fit those flashbacks, lol.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. I adore the fact that you translate things for us all. ♥

Wow, in that case, she's really done a good job of building on those initial random flashbacks!