Normal is best.

Jun 12 2002
You know, recently, no matter what they say to me, I'm not getting angry. Like "filler mangaka". Or "minor mangaka at a major magazine". Or "Sunday's Yasu●". Even my assistants are saying things like "there is nothing you can learn here"... My parents are saying things like "how would it be if you got employed soon?"... When I go to the convenience store by bicycle at night, I will definitely get stopped two times, and they'll ask me "what are you doing?", and when I answer "nothing special", they'll say stuff like "aah, a freelancer"... Even if it's just like being told by a dog that "your life is really not very great", and normal people would explode a thousand times because of it, I'm not getting mad at all. Yeah, even my drive to become angry is going away. But you know, in the past I would have become furious. Because of Shiraishi Miho working too much, or Murakami Ryu being in very high spirits. Murakami Ryu probably doesn't know about the offside rule. And then, the difficulty of Winning Eleven's Master League, Extreme Mode. That the soba in convenience stores more often is made from wheat than from buckwheat. That the drawing of Nakayama's face didn't look like him. Oh, but I was relieved that it was looking more like him than the one in the Puma commercial. And then, that everyone and his dog likes Hajime Chitose. Shindou, the announcer, shamelessly coming back and talking about soccer. That the Taiwan cup noodles I've been obsessed with recently are selling out. Kotatsu that are still standing around. When I wake up in the morning and dust has collected on my head. That the hairs of some dog I'm not even keeping are sticking to my clothes. That you can always only find one sock of the pair. If this had been ten years ago, it wouldn't have been enough no matter how many sheets of glass I had. Yeah, even I have become more broad-minded. I'm not bothered at all by things like Igawa Haruka's acting skills.