Don't Miss Your Deadline! (Manga Editor Quest)
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[X] Agree with Suzuki's request and give up one of your current series
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
As much as it pains me to give up one of our first manga, with 5 manga, our suggestions are more spread out and we don't have the favor to spend. Masaru is a veteran and should be able to help Morita out.
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
As much as it pains me to give up one of our first manga, with 5 manga, our suggestions are more spread out and we don't have the favor to spend. Masaru is a veteran and should be able to help Morita out.
[X] Agree with Suzuki's request and give up one of your current series
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
We may have enough favor, but I feel this isn't important enough to spend it. Nor I want to keep driving a wedge between Maeda and Suzuki. Not to mention the fact that at our level any series we handle is always on the brink and I don't want to spend favor to keep a series that may bomb in a week or two.
Subaru is our best series and Tana our best mangaka. Aoki, I like him and I think we've connected the best. And Morita, I honestly feel that at this point his work would benefit more from an experienced editor like Masaru than from us. And also that Masaru would know better how to handle the mother.
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
We may have enough favor, but I feel this isn't important enough to spend it. Nor I want to keep driving a wedge between Maeda and Suzuki. Not to mention the fact that at our level any series we handle is always on the brink and I don't want to spend favor to keep a series that may bomb in a week or two.
Subaru is our best series and Tana our best mangaka. Aoki, I like him and I think we've connected the best. And Morita, I honestly feel that at this point his work would benefit more from an experienced editor like Masaru than from us. And also that Masaru would know better how to handle the mother.
[X] Agree with Suzuki's request and give up one of your current series
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
Personally I just don't really like this story premise and we don't have the stats or experience to bring it up from barely acceptable without a lot of work.
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
Personally I just don't really like this story premise and we don't have the stats or experience to bring it up from barely acceptable without a lot of work.
[X] Agree with Suzuki's request and give up one of your current series
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
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I don't recognize it, I'm sure someone else here will though.
as above, so below.
or maybe it's the opposite.
well, not our biggest problem. And results will speak for themselves in a bit, hopefully.
Don't worry Masaru, we're about to reduce your workload by a LOT!
and hey, we might have gone over his head, but we accomplished HIS GOALS.
that has to count for something!
he DOES approve, at least a bit!
..John, please stop talking! Let US do that, we're good at that!
we HAVE to reveal it's all thanks to us to Masaru later.
He might very well name his next child after us because of it
reasonable and fair.
again, reasonable, and we're not in a hurry for it anyway. It can wait for a turn in which we'll focus our suggestions on this.
He's not wrong. this is the most generic of our 3 series, and if it can't stand out from the crows and as "not a Naruto clone" it doesn't deserve to continue.
In any case... well, I don't expect it to last for too long, but we should aim for 10 chapters simply to reach the next mangaka tier.
We might also want to try and spend some favour to get the kid to visit a few ramen chefs, maybe.
I want to give up the ninja manga. It's the hardest one to work with by far, especially given the age and parents of the mangaka.
and hey, Subaru and Vampire Daughter are much more interesting and hold more promise AND they have fewer current requirements in terms of objectives!
I see no reason to spend favour on this, and objectively speaking we made mistakes with ninja manga. Masaru would likely do a better job with it.
I'm fine with trading it for a more experience mangaka.
and about 5 series... we COULD, I suppose... but why would we? I suppose it might make us look better to the Editor-in-Chief and our coworkers, but that's it.
...it MIGHT be worth it, I suppose, but I'm leaning against just giving up ninja manga.
[X] Agree with Suzuki's request and give up one of your current series
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
I'm a bit wary if we handle 5 series, with 50 Editor points and 5 suggestion without visits. It is enough to make adequate manga, but not decent manga. Lets keep it at 4 for now until we are more skilled.
[X] Agree with Suzuki's request and give up one of your current series
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
[X] Agree with Suzuki's request and give up one of your current series
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
zamin
The Watcher in the Dark
Neither. Next update will have a list of potential series for you to choose from - some from Masaru and some that are completely new.
If the "go along with the Editor in Chief's plan" option wins, then you have to pick at least one Masaru option. Otherwise, you may choose to go for whichever series idea you like best.
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and so we're going to play another episode of "where have I heard that before?", in which we try to remember what series just like that we've already read/watched!
Cool, thanks, I wonder what series we will be given...wait, before us, Masaru edit all of the other manga...
So we might choose from previous top 10 when we research own magazine, from few chapters back?
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we get to choose last though, so there's that. Shion and John get the best picks, though I'm not salty about it. We're still getting one fewer series to work on, and we're quickly becoming John's friend and Shion's...guardian angel, I suppose?
oh, and also Masaru's saviour/god. can't forget that!
EDIT: I REALLY want Maeda to just say "You're all welcome" once we get out. and when they ask "oh, I pulled some strings to reduce all of our workloads "
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I thought we want to make Maeda into "smart slacker", not glory hound?
Joking aside, as cathartic that is, it will kill all of Maeda Favors, and put him back into Suzuki shitlist after we crawl out of it.
[X] Agree with Suzuki's request and give up one of your current series
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
- Location
- Italy
hey, I meant to tell our coworkers after we leave the office.I thought we want to make Maeda into "smart slacker", not glory hound?
Joking aside, as cathartic that is, it will kill all of Maeda Favors, and put him back into Suzuki shitlist after we crawl out of it.
Suzuki not involved
...jokes aside though, Maeda is a political animal basically. we want to avoid to work hard, but we also enjoy being recognized from what we're forced to do.
So... maybe not quite as bluntly as I said, but making it clear that it was US who pushed that change would likely help in getting even more of Masaru's approval. something along the lines of "I'm happy the board listened to me about reducing the workload!"
ziizo
Lazily Lurking
He already did something like that, before the reunion.
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ah, right.
well, just a generic "I'm happy for you, Masaru. You really need to rest a bit now though".
And then maybe we go party/drink/eat together that evening, a nice night with our coworkers
overmind
Ruler of the Swarm
[X] Agree with Suzuki's request and give up one of your current series
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
Personally, I feel we could have gone with places with this series.
I mean, the Ramen option could have been phased out as we focused more on the kid's desire to simply be out of his parents/ ninja's thumb and trying to put his heart and soul into anything that might allow him to do so, only for him to realize that, while fun, it's not something he wants to dedicate his whole life to but still giving him valuable life lessons as he tries to find the one thing that truly makes him happy.
Then perhaps at some point in the series the MC realizes that the Ninja arts he practiced do make him happy (foreshadowed by the many times he used them in previous episodes before the revelation) and what he dislikes is the constant fighting and control that the system imposes upon him, thus making a new arc where hetries to find a solution (and I mean an actual solution! Not a cop out like Naruto did).
But, I think we might as well give it up now, it's just not working out very well.
-[x] My Secret Ninja Sensei Needs to Stop Training Me
Personally, I feel we could have gone with places with this series.
I mean, the Ramen option could have been phased out as we focused more on the kid's desire to simply be out of his parents/ ninja's thumb and trying to put his heart and soul into anything that might allow him to do so, only for him to realize that, while fun, it's not something he wants to dedicate his whole life to but still giving him valuable life lessons as he tries to find the one thing that truly makes him happy.
Then perhaps at some point in the series the MC realizes that the Ninja arts he practiced do make him happy (foreshadowed by the many times he used them in previous episodes before the revelation) and what he dislikes is the constant fighting and control that the system imposes upon him, thus making a new arc where hetries to find a solution (and I mean an actual solution! Not a cop out like Naruto did).
But, I think we might as well give it up now, it's just not working out very well.
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it's just the least interesting of the three we have AND the one that would require the most work to improve.
I wouldn't wait to bring out the wife. She's supposed to be one of the most important characters of the cast right after Ikoa and the daughter.
If we cannot do the focus chapter right now, at least we should make a short introduction. And I'd personally do the request by chapter 5 at the latest.
I agree, but that would have required that we managed to make it a long running series. It could have worked if Maeda and the mangaka were veterans with plenty of boosts. But as things stand now, it's not feasible.
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