Kind of wish the art didn't degrade into scribbles by the end. Apart from that pretty decent.

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What is *happening* to RaTe these days? He's taking longer and longer between releases, and this one's scribbly near the end. I really hope he's okay.

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Scribbly near the end usually just means ran out of time before the printer's deadline, rather than, say, a degenerative nerve disorder. Now. consistently missing deadlines is probably cause for concern, but people have other time commitments.

Like, I recently read that the reason Sonoda Kenichi -- the guy who did Riding Bean and Gunsmith Cats back in the '90s and early '00s -- isn't doing as much manga/anime work these days because he had to go back to Kumamoto to take over running his family's candy shop/factory (which has been making chōsen-ame since 1582). So you never know. (Not sure how much you want the guy who wrote/drew Minnie-May Hopkins hanging around a candy store, but there you go.)

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