Chapter 49: A Jian’s Preferences
Sunday, late at night.
The girl curled up in bed, holding her mobile phone with both hands.
The screen displayed a manga.
「I really want to bounce chests…」
“I really want to bounce chests…”
Seeing the character’s line, Natsume Mio read it out softly.
Then immediately with a disgusted face: “Eww—gross.”
“Hahahaha.” Then she couldn’t help but laugh.
Then she eagerly flipped through the pages.
「I’m serious!」
「My goal!」
「That is…!」
「Chests!」
A Jian’s male lead is really cute, but speaking of which, is this really his belief?
So, when will Denji get to bounce Miss Makima’s chests?
Natsume Mio rolled over, placed her mobile phone on her stomach, and clasped her hands over her chest.
Does A Jian have the same preferences as Denji?
They say works reflect the author’s own preferences, and A Jian must be the same.
He just likes them big, right~
She felt proud of her own skills for a moment, but then recalled that very long dream…
That guy A Jian seems to like other places even more…
She’s not imagining things; that day at A Jian’s house, she noticed his gaze.
Compared to her chest, it lingered more obviously on her feet and legs.
The girl curled up her feet, her toes touching each other, and just thinking of certain scenes made the soles of her feet itch.
But there’s also a possibility that A Jian doesn’t have any particular preferences.
He’s just simply lewd.
Well, boys are like that, from what she’s heard.
Natsume Mio picked up her mobile phone again.
She was very curious about the new female character Power who appeared in chapter four; she seemed like an important character.
After all, on the previous page, Miss Makima had a line mentioning that this female character would be Denji’s partner starting today.
From her appearance, although the overall style is different from Miss Makima’s, they both have big chests.
A Jian even gave her a close-up storyboard panel.
The key is that Denji at first said something like “Is it really okay for a demon to be a demon hunter?”
But after seeing her chests, he immediately turned into “Please take care of me.”
Tch, what a guy who opens his eyes wide at chests.
“Kneel before me, humans! I am Power!”
Natsume Mio approximated the character’s tone and read the line softly.
As for personality, she seems carefree, using “I（the great one）” to refer to herself, feeling a bit arrogant and chuunibyou.
And she doesn’t seem very smart…
Actually, she had already read this chapter many times, and these past few days she had copied down all the female characters’ lines from the manga, reciting them during her morning vocal practice.
After all, she had already submitted her resume to the Enoshima Voice Actor Agency, and it was Natsume Mio and her vocal music teacher who found out that this agency cooperates with Shueisha.
And she learned about some of their business plans, including voice acting needs for short animation projects.
The teacher also advised her to give it a try; for such small projects with few lines and low remuneration, professional voice actors rarely participate, it’s mainly for newcomers to practice, and the chance of being selected is high.
She should have gone to sleep earlier, but it was Sunday night at 23:58, and in two minutes, A Jian’s next chapter would update.
She was waiting for the update and flipping back and forth through the previous content.
One minute… thirty seconds… ten… nine…
…Three… two… one…
…
Refresh the page.
Mikazuki Haruna immediately clicked into her own manga homepage.
The previously updated chapters 1 to 4, and today’s chapter 5, were all uniformly refreshed to the latest version.
Together with her four drawing assistants, especially with Shijiyuan’s help, under the incentive of double daily wage, they worked overtime and finally redrew the characters and scenes.
From now on, 《Young Lady》 is a brand new 《Young Lady》!
A mere 《Chainsaw Man》 is of course no threat at all~
After reading her manga’s update, Mikazuki Haruna spammed several comments in the comment section.
By now there were some comments, but she knew most of them were left by Shijiyuan and the others, since Mikazuki Haruna had instructed them to casually post more in the comment section when they had time.
Next, time to check out your work~
Mikazuki Haruna clicked into 《Chainsaw Man》’s homepage.
They are concurrent serializations with concurrent updates, and under Chainsaw Man chapter 5, there were already several comments.
You’re pretending to be a reader and spamming comments too?
Mikazuki Haruna opened the latest chapter and savored it carefully.
Actually, when she finished chapter 4 and Power just appeared, she really liked this character; that momentum inexplicably resonated with her.
No, take another look at this chapter’s title?
「Chapter 5: The Method to Bounce Chests」
No way, Sakamoto Ken, you guy, are you starting to draw fanservice chapters too?
However, after reading it, Haruna pouted, a bit disappointed.
It turned out to just be a promise; she thought it was actually bouncing.
I’ve already drawn foot-bouncing content, and you’re still doing pure vanilla here?
But you really know how to leave cliffhangers; I really want to see the bouncing…
Snap out of it! Why am I looking forward to something like this!
It’s definitely not because she recalled during today’s nap, in the dream, interacting with that guy, that guy’s big hands…
Mainly, she wants to see how this rival’s drawing skill is, whether the fanservice illustrations make the heart race.
As a concurrent serialization contender, it’s necessary to understand the competitor’s strength.
After flipping through, Haruna carefully studied 《Chainsaw Man》’s storyboard.
Although the illustrations aren’t particularly refined, the storyboard design is exceptionally smooth and full of tension; flipping through feels just like watching animation.
So impressive…
Although she was looking with a critical eye, aside from the slightly rough style, she really couldn’t find any flaws.
The lines are simple, but the character designs are expressed particularly well, and the dynamics are spot on.
It’s just that Denji is really all about chests…
This chapter starts with him slyly eyeing Power, and before he was eyeing Miss Makima too…
She hasn’t exchanged with him in reality, but purely from the work, Haruna highly suspects that the man named Sakamoto Ken she’s been thinking about in her dreams is the author of 《Chainsaw Man》, Sakamoto Ken.
Just thinking like this has no basis; she needs to meet offline and talk.
She’s already done that kind of thing with him in her dreams.
Even though it was a dream, rounding it off counts as you taking my first time in the dream!
So, no more hesitating.
Thinking of doing it, Haruna opened her email and started composing a message to Chief Editor Ono Tomohiro.
「Chief Editor-san, I saw the manga update, after the illustration remake, 《Young Lady》 could be considered a completely new work, right?」
「So, could you help promote it again? If it’s just a simple note on the first page of the latest chapter, many old readers might not know yet; with the current drawing skill, it will definitely go viral!」
「Like the last YouTube live stream event, add a small segment in the next regular live program to introduce my work.」
「Also, I’ve been reading the concurrent serialization 《Chainsaw Man》 lately; this manga is really good too, and it always gets first in votes. Such an excellent work needs to be seen by more people, and I want to exchange with Sakamoto Sensei; could you arrange for us to do a joint live stream face-to-face?」
「I have another idea, Chief Editor-san, don’t tell Sakamoto Sensei I’m coming yet, just tell him it’s for live promotion of his book, then I appear, like a surprise segment, how about it?」
