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Messages to Kentarou Miura: Nico Nicholson (2)
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I had completed my storyboard with this (meeting)
Miura-sensei didn’t modify anything in it.
With this one-time coverage, I could decide in what direction my serialization should go.
And I think it sprouted inside of me the idea to be “one who continues to draw” as well.
I met him just a few times through my work.
However, these mere hours were such a big deal to me that they changed my life.
Miura: Each panel is a window through which we look into another world
That is what I want to draw.
To me, the window to another world was
The door of Sensei’s workshop on that day.
I’ve read “Berserk” since my teenage years
I couldn’t believe the day came when I could directly meet Sensei, who had drawn the work.
Nico Nicholson: This world has been connected to that world!!
I was on the reading side!!
(Now I’ve been) connected to the drawing side!!!
I learned of such a shock for the first time in my life.
11 years later
Now I’m on the drawing side.
I still am, somehow…
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Though I was often tired to not have talent
I haven’t quitted drawing
Maybe I’m no good
Miura: To draw manga, you should be conscious of the “shocks” in your mind and remember them preciously.
Because Sensei’s remark, that I heard when I covered him, was a great help to me.
The shock I got when I met him first
Miura: Welcome
The taste of the buckwheat tea
The smell of the paints in his workshop
The storyboards of Berserk that he willingly gave to me
Miura: You want these?
(They are kind of) industrial wastes?
I’ve treasured all of them
And they’re supports to me now.
Nico Nicholson: All right, I’ll draw!
Even now, I’m overwhelmed with various kinds of feelings, like bitterness and sadness, pain owing to the fact I can’t continue to read Berserk, and enormous gratitude.
However, I’ll remember all of them preciously.
Nico Nicholson
May 20th, 2021
Comments
Rhombaad
Me, too!
Skullknight.NET
He did it often! I'm 100% jealous
Rhombaad
Very generous of him to give her some of his storyboards. What a guy. :-)
