Nakatani: Touko was created first, Yuu was born as her partner. I like troublesome girls. For me, I wanted to draw a girl that would be unmanageable, so I made Touko the heroine. For me, Yuu has the image of a hero who would help that unmanageable girl. That being said, I think of the characters as if they were born as individual people. It is at most a discussion of “At first it was like that.”
– So it’s a matter of those two moving towards to resolving the problem as a goal. While you draw those delicate feelings, I feel like you thought through the story with reasoning as you talk about the story.
Nakatani: Yes. However, there are times where I would have the characters take action in accordance to the story, “I can’t let them say this line,” “I can’t let them do this much yet.” I draw while keeping in mind the balance between what I want to to do with it as a story, and what the characters would do in the present situation. As I lay down the rails, occasionally with a detour, I put thought into it as I reason out on “How should I go about to bring it here?…..” Something like that.
I drew with the thoughts of wanting Yuu and Touko to be happy, so right now may be the painful part, I would be happy if you would continue to follow.
