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Usui
>Editor: 'Draw a 15-page work for Short Frontier'
>Usui: 'Thanks! I'll even make two!'
>Editor: 'I think we can probably turn Kiyoshi into a 47-page work'
>Usui: 'Sure!!'

>- I get a Little cocky after the Kiyoshi one-shot is published -

>Editor: 'Let's work on a serialization pitch'
>Usui: 'I'll write more stuff other than Kiyoshi that I find interesting'

>- Huge storm of rejections, more storms, it keeps getting worse -

>- I get addicted to Smash Bros but can't even get to VIP so I get depressed. I get addicted to One Piece Cards but I get continuously rushed so I get more depressed. -

>Editor: 'Stop complaining and draw Kiyoshi'
>Usui: 'Right away!!'

>- On the deadline day I was scolded because of dilly-dallying and my editor got really mad at me. We managed to send the work to the meeting, with my life hanging by a single thread, and somehow they decided to turn it into a series -

>(My editor had me completely revise Chapters 2 and 3 after the meeting finished…)

Also according to anon:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/277848685/#q277861307
>Usui's been an assistant at Jump for ~15 years, he published like 7 one shots during that time. I'm starting to believe that he reached an agreement with Shueisha, so he's allowed to publish his work for a fixed amount of time, at least.

And yet his debut MEGA FLOPPED.
>Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 1 — 4,839 / 8,937 (Total)
>Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 2 — 2,241 / 10,953 (Total)
>Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 3 — 5,629 / 10,595 (Total)