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Comments left by Kentaro Miura (author of Berserk) on Young Animal Magazine when he was drawing Berserk and commentaries at the end of the book.

This has been shared before but it is well known that manga authors have brutal schedules they have to work under. So many have died before old age due to health issues.

To quote Junji Ito:

“Sleep is very important. Everyone get enough sleep. Many manga artists die young and it’s because they don’t sleep. Your best ideas will come to you when you’re sleeping. Please everyone get some sleep.”

Remember Manga authors are human beings that deserve better work conditions in their industry.

RIP Master Miura.

Same with Nana.

Bacillaria paxillifer, AKA the carpenter’s rule diatom. 

This diatom is unique in that it can slide and retract relatively quickly using a mucilage layer. They’re fun to watch!

Pig: *very long disgruntled groan which rises in pitch*

Man: Is that a yeah?

Pig: *shorter groan*

Man: Okay.  Here I come, I gotta get the intoxicated pig… Look at this pig…

Pig: *quiet snort*

Man: Hey!

Pig: *snort*

Man: Are you messed up, girl?  

Pig: *short snort*

Man: Never seen a damn pig… Look at that, that one here’s fine, that one there is fine, this one here is turned belly up 

Pig: *snort snort snort snort*

Man: Hey you

Pig: *snort*

Man: Whoa!  Whoa!  Shit!  [Unintelligible] HOWH!  Come here girl! 

Pig: *grunt grunt grunt*

Pinonkey -> Donkeyata -> Fiestaur

1. Have long held childhood interest in animals. Use drawing as coping mechanism for problems at home.  2. Work in the game industry, specialize in creature design. 

3. Start wanting to learn more about animal anatomy so you can design better creatures. 

4. Draw live animals.

4. Draw dead animals so you can examine them more. 

5. Start dissecting dead animals to better understand them

get evicted for dissecting animals at home

6. Seeing the bones will allow me to better understand where muscles attach.  Get good at cleaning bones. 

7. Use dissected animals for reference while designing creatures.  They smell bad. Get good at preserving them.

8. Develop specimen hoarding problem. Start selling boxes of random specimens found around apartment. 

9. Realize that the injuries and marks on the bodies of the animals mean something.

10. Recognize the resilience, courage of the experiences that marked their bodies.

and identify with never having had a voice to speak of what they endured

11. “Someone should know what happened to you.... even if it’s too late, even if it changes nothing, what happened was to you was real.”

12. No one is interested in their stories because the photos are too graphic. Get good at photoshop.

13. Discover that presentation really matters. People are more interested in these stories if they are presented better. Applies this idea to specimens.