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i have a... comic?!?!

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CHAPTER 6 pt 7 [ROUTE A] - 01/15/2023

before the chap starts

[STANDARD MESSAGE OF ROUTE A, YOU CAN SKIP IF YOU'VE READ IT BEFORE]

ok, if you're a normal person, the first thing you thought when reading this abomination in the title is: samu, you sicko, what the heck is route a or b? and i answer you with: why not? chapter 6 was split into two instances. route a goes back to route 6. read the author's notes in cap 6 pt 1 route a to know!

now playing...

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author notes (spoilers)

(SO SORRY ANOTHER LONG ONE ;-;)

I LOVE THIS CHAPTER! everything in it flows so well, the parallel fights, the introduction of veronika, the introduction of the samuloko anomaly, the references to panrataria, everything is so smooth!!! but i won't talk about that (even though it hurts), i want to talk about how if you put effort into making something in the style of the things YOU like and are inspired by, it's more important than internal expectation.

what do i mean by that? this chapter had been in my mind for a long time before it came out, and i was weirdly excited for it. what happened? when it came time to make it... it just didn't flow. i was inspired, i was excited, but nothing seemed enough. the first version of this chapter really discouraged me from doing the comic because nothing was fitting, and i couldn't understand why. nothing felt like the vibe of the comic, nothing felt like gintama, nothing felt like what i was doing. so i stopped, took a breath, and reread the whole comic, 3 times. i found the first panels i made for this chapter and went back to them. instead of doing something i would enjoy making, the point of starting the comic in the first place, i was worried about making a masterpiece that i idealized in my head that couldn't have a single mistake. it's not wrong to want your work to turn out the best it can, but if you're not having fun, what's the point? don't get me wrong, that was the main tone of the comic, i wasn't wrong about that, but i was so focused on making my idealization as faithful as what i was envisioning that i almost lost my love for art. i want to thank Elle for helping me through that creative block and for saving the comic! thank you, my friend, you're a diva!

ps. ahnegao.com is an ancient brazillian meme site that dumps memes, if i changed that the joke would just be boring so i kept that

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