Chapter 196 – Volume 40 – The Waves of the Calm Waterside (1)
“Hmm, it’s good that the concept was unrehearsed…”
While trying to come up with a new story, I got greedy and fell into trouble.
For this work, I decided to actively adopt the background of a non-yeonsi that basically gets involved with beautiful girls in the countryside.
So, many heroines had no choice but to appear.
However, it was difficult to tell all the stories of the heroines in one comic book.
No, beyond that, it feels like the amount of time to even tell a serious story about one person is far short.
If this is the case, even if it is divided into two volumes like the previous work, you have to choose only one main heroine.
‘As long as the concept is unrevealed, I want to show the stories of various characters.’
I want to develop the personality of various characters and the story that fits them.
If I proceed like I did in ‘Witch Academy’, I don’t think I’ll be able to feel it.
Since that work has a separate goal, it was fine as a story of a harem being organized in the process of achieving the goal.
In the end, if multiple characters are all covered in the storyline, there is not enough time to fully show each character.
Wasn’t it because of this problem that we shared the story of ‘Inner Marchen’ by drawing one cartoon per deck?
So, in the end, I had to make a separate book for each heroine in this work.
“Common route…?”
Come to think of it, it seems that there were many cases that had this form among the structures of Miyeon poetry.
In the beginning of the story, called Common Route, we introduce all the heroines and show the basic situation of the story.
And the story after that is a way to pick and develop one character.
There are even works that don’t even discover the character route through options, but just give you options right away.
Especially in the case of the smartphone ported version, while moving to the form of in-app payment.
There were also games that sold separate routes for each heroine.
“Doesn’t it fit right now?”
And honestly, the part that impresses me with that route is that no matter how hard I work, I can’t beat Amori.
If there is no win rate on that side, it would be better to give up boldly and choose an option with other advantages.
In this way, there is an advantage in that you can clearly select and watch the story of the character you want, instead of reducing the taste of love that you get close to and attack.
‘Well, this is a manga, not a game.’
In fact, Armory’s strengths were more likely to shine when making games rather than comics.
That’s probably why Amori also chose the genre of gamebook.
In particular, due to the nature of the game book genre, the amount of experience in cartoons is much less than that of conventional cartoons.
Then I have to exploit those weaknesses and turn them into the overwhelming strengths of my work.
If I apply the idea I’ve come up with now, readers can enjoy the manga as much as they paid for it.
Because I can fully fill only the route I chose without being abandoned for another route.
‘Even if you look at it as a whole, I have a lot more.’
Not only the cost-effectiveness through selection, but also the total amount of time if you ride all the routes of various heroines, I am the overwhelming winner.
And in fact, it’s because I started late, considering the amount of time I spent creating the organic nature of those numerous routes.
In fact, the time required to create the work will be similar.
‘If you can’t win with quality, you’ll push with quantity.’
And in fact, it’s just that the genre is different, but it’s not that the quality is particularly low.
You can’t beat quality in that genre, so you’re just pushing for a similar genre with a lot of quantity.
The story and character of the characters must be properly drawn.
“Well, that part is something I’ve been thinking about and trying to figure out before.”
For now, the direction of the work has been decided to deepen and dig into all the heroines.
From now on, it was time to confirm the character, past, troubles, and incidents of the characters that I had been thinking about before.
Of course, the basic character traits themselves were all set, but that’s it.
This work is basically a worldview that focuses on mermaids wearing ‘swimsuits’ as everyday wear.
So, of course, the heroines are wearing swimsuits of different designs.
Naturally, this work becomes the most important device to express the character of the character to the extent that it can be regarded as a swimsuit moe painting.
“Well, when it comes to swimsuits, bikinis come first.”
In fact, this world didn’t mean there was no concept of a swimsuit.
A similar object existed in the form of covering the body with a material that does not get wet well.
But the problem is that it’s at the same level as a haenyeo’s costume.
For that reason, to supply swimsuits here and to enjoy the snow every summer.
And this mermaid setting was set up in the hope that there would be a lot of swimsuit-related content in the works.
First of all, the bikini, which can be said to be the basic of the basics of swimsuits in my opinion, came first.
“Come to think of it, I didn’t intend to do this unplayed at first.”
So, with the premise that a bikini is the default, I set a lot of settings like the main character.
The setting of the main character, who is friendly with everyone and always bright and sparkling, remained.
…But if you think about it, it could be seen as a main heroine attribute.
Once the main character arrives on an island where all the residents are women, and she is dressed only in a revealing outfit.
What will shock him the most will be the most common design, the bikini.
So she has to come up with that bright face and play a role in helping her protagonist adapt.
“I like the feeling that she introduces herself as an ordinary villager A.”
But honestly, I’m just a normal girl.
With that appearance and physicality, it is absolutely not mediocre, but it is at the top.
It’s like a self-proclaimed ordinary heroine, but that’s how normal characters are in comics.
And since there is a setting that you are close to everyone, you will be able to play the role of showing and informing other heroines on a common route.
It’s a character that can be entrusted with a kind of guide role.
Even her very bright personality, enough to easily offset the conflict at the beginning of the work, will help the protagonist.
‘I can’t hate it.’
Unless you’re a person with a twisted personality, you’ll be impressed when you see him taking care of the main character like this.
And they say you can’t spit in the face of a person who smiles.
It’s hard to dislike a character who always greets you while messing around.
‘But if it’s a character that’s just that bright, it’s not fun.’
Therefore, I plan to hide a small hint in the common route.
However, it is not at the level where the main character is aware of something and suspects something.
It’s just a scene where a bikini string accidentally comes undone.
‘Actually, that itself would be more like a service scene.’
The problem is that some scars are revealed in that scene.
Of course, it doesn’t openly show scars, but in the process of untying the bikini, you can see the tip of the inner scar that has never been seen before.
A few quick-witted people will sense a little uneasiness.
“There is no fool in the world who just laughs.”
Even the orcas around me right now have a lot of soft parts.
He usually smiles so well and looks like an idiot.
Actually, if you look at it all, it’s not like I’m laughing without thinking like an idiot.
Anyway, the heroine wearing a bikini is set up that the inside of the bikini is full of scars.
It’s not that you’ve been bullied, it’s the traces of self-harm caused by the self-loathing you always feel when you’re alone.
A self-proclaimed ‘normal woman’ who wants to be loved by everyone in the world, she cuts herself off with her feelings of disgust whenever she can’t.
However, if such scars are revealed, the castle of mediocrity she has built so far will collapse.
Unconditionally, self-harm has been committed only inside the bikini can cover.
But while I was with the main character, the bikini string came undone by mistake, and the scar was revealed, albeit a little.
On her bikini route, her heroine accidentally runs into her during her self-inflicted seizure.
She gets to know her secret that no one has ever heard of.
She showed me the wounds that were like lumps of hate that she had created while hating herself.
She goes completely mental and goes into a runaway.
“Even for this scene, we have to put a lot of effort into the laughing scene of the common route.”
The contrast between the extreme situation and the expression is probably the biggest shock on this route.
Well, that doesn’t mean that this work wasn’t made for the purpose of taking pictures of bloody waste.
In fact, the imprint of the image at this timing is everything.
‘After that…’
The main character accepts her, saying that even her naked body, full of scars, is beautiful.
She pours out her self-loathing thoughts about who she really is, though she exclaims that she herself isn’t beautiful enough to hear such things.
Still, the main character infinitely affirms that she is also beautiful.
Of course, there is no way that she, who has been so devastated by her words, will come back.
Her heroine helps her find her confidence and forget her self-loathing.
The story unfolds slowly while dating in various ways.
Little by little, the more impoverished personality disappears, and the frequency of self-harm is significantly reduced.
Even so, she has a sense of entitlement to other heroines, and she thinks that she monopolizes the heroine she cannot have because she is pitiful.
She eventually tries to move away from the main character.
Her heroine forewarns it, and catches her about to leave.
Then he said that she was not doing this because she felt sorry for her, but because she liked it.
She says that what she likes is not the other heroines who shine in a special way, but the ordinary you and hugs you.
“It’s a common cliché, but it works really well.”
The fact that her precious person was actually broken, and that the only people who can fix that broken person are her and me who love each other.
There’s no way people can stand such a stupid setting.
