Mashiro, you actually knew how to draw doujinshi?
Holding the manga in her hands, Rita had never imagined... before any of those doujinshi artists could make a move on Hell Girl, Mashiro Shiina—the official manga artist for the series—had beaten them to it herself!
Generally speaking, unless they truly loved it, manga artists who had already become professionals would not go around drawing doujinshi.
After all, compared to actual professional manga artists, doujinshi artists could be considered unable to make it onto the proper stage. It was not that they were especially looked down upon, but that they were not accepted openly.
If it were not for making a living, how many people would draw doujinshi? Do not be fooled by how doujinshi artists in anime were portrayed as famous, like idols... that was only on the surface.
Was it not better to become a real manga artist?
Still... although everyone wanted to become a real manga artist, to be called Sensei, even to have their manga sold all across the country, how many could actually achieve that?
Most could not even get past the submission stage!
Of course, all of that applied to ordinary people. It was completely meaningless to Mashiro Shiina. Otherwise, she would not have given up traditional art in order to draw manga.
Compared to the traditional art Mashiro Shiina had studied from the beginning, manga itself was also something that could not make it onto the proper stage.
The gap was even greater than the one between mainstream manga and doujinshi.
Yet Mashiro Shiina did not care about any of that. The only things she cared about were the things that interested her. As long as she liked something, no matter how others viewed it... she would work hard toward that goal.
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