KIBUN WA MOO SENSOO - HONTO NO SAISHŪ KAI (気分はもう戦争 - ホントの最終回) Weekly Manga Action (週刊漫画アクション) 1981-XI-19 | 19 pages | B&W Written by Yahagi Toshihiko (矢作俊彦) Illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋) This story is collected in the books: ●KIBUN WA MŌ SENSŌ [1982 edition] ●KIBUN WA MŌ SENSŌ [2000 edition]
I've got really found memories about writting this story all on my own, without help from anybody. I used 4C, Japan's first video-colouring system, in which I painted the work onto a monitor and then photographed the result. The coulours are really high-quality, right? I thought that the splash page wasn't very interesting, so I devised this plan for spicing it up... I started out thinking which pages needed colouring, and which didn't. At the time, Young Magazine didn't seem to mind what I did...
No matter what I'm writing, I'm always pursued by deadlines, and the closer the deadline, the harder I find it to persuade myself that the drawings are up to scratch. Then, as a reaction, the more I wish I could draw properly... When I feel like that, writing a lengthy piece is an impossibility, so I figure that at any rate I might as well draw something short but in which the pictures are sharp and clear. However, since these stories ran as a serial in a monthly magazine, I found myself once more hounded by deadlines, felt increasingly unable to drawn and came more and more to dislike what I was drawing... These are all Western parodies, but I would like to do some Japanese ones someday.