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But also around this time, I realized I was starting to experience a different kind of stress. I fell even more behind, and at the point where Sensui and Yusuke were fighting, this reached its first peak. One-shots are scary.' I also began to use some time before going to bed to relieve stress. If I die, I want it to be when I'm having fun or when I'm drawing manga for fun. Around this time, my feelings about writing manga as a profession began to change. But I tried to get some sleep every night. I immediately began to fall behind on my schedule. I thought, 'I probably won't be able to keep regular hours, but if I sleep as much as I want to, when I want to, how much would I be able to produce?' I tried it out.

This was when I seriously started to think about the pace of production for manga. But my HP (as they say in RPGs) was gradually but surely falling, and around the time that I wrote a 31-page one-shot and simultaneously had to do color pages, my heart began to hurt every time I went without sleep - and then it began to hurt more and more often. Other than that all I had time for were occasional naps, and I'd indulge in my hobbies by sleeping less. From when YYH began serialization up until the start of the Dark Tournament, I had half a day off every week in which I caught up on sleep. Point 1 was caused by Point 3 not being fulfilled for too long. Most of my 50 reasons fall into this category.

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Point 3 is out of the question for a professional manga writer basically I wanted to indulge in my hobbies, rest, and sleep as much as I could. Thoughts I had about what it means to draw manga.There were many reasons for this, all in all about 50 big and small ones, but in broad strokes, these were the major reasons: To tell the truth, it had already been decided that YYH was going to end in December 1993 - or rather, this was a decision that I had forced on the editorial staff. The six months leading up to the concluding chapter felt awfully long to me. It's not that I've lost all emotional attachment to the work, but I feel that my stress levels had greatly surpassed my will to work.

: If I'm honest, I'm feeling a great relief and pleasure at the thought that I've finally been able to finish YYH.

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