I am a Type-Moon comic artist!

Another one is a manga called *Fate/stay night*, told from the perspective of Shirou Emiya, the child whom Kiritsugu Emiya saved from the fire in Fuyuki City in *Fate/Zero*...

Chapter Seventy-Two: The Passage of Time

The protagonist of the new manga "Fate/stay night" is Emiya Shirou.

Unlike previous ensemble dramas, this one has a clearly defined protagonist.

After reading it, Yu Iwamoto couldn't help but exclaim, "This is the kind of manga that fits the JUMC theme!"

The story is roughly about the protagonist Shirou Emiya and the heroine Sakura Matou... It unfolds from Shirou Emiya's perspective and is basically about "I want this girl, to hell with justice!"

That's about it...

Well, of course, as the comic says, "I'll only be your partner in justice."

Ugh, I was so disgusted by the bugs at the beginning of Fate/Zero, but this time I finally got to vent... Although... the plot is a bit sad, the ending is good.

In the world before Kurokawa and Miyabi, this should be considered part of the *Heaven's Feel* route. The full title should be *Fate/stay night Hea/vens feel*. One reason he drew this is that it's more in the style of *Fate/Zero*, dark and healing.

The other two lines are not like that.

Furthermore, the other two storylines do not fully showcase the charm of some characters.

For example, the female protagonist in this route, Matou Sakura, is completely a "purple-haired female passerby" in other routes.

In this storyline, new characters who appeared in Fate/Zero but did not have a clear role have all had their own moments.

For example, Shirou Emiya, Rin Tohsaka, Sakura Matou, Eliasfil... as well as Zouken Matou and Kirei Kotomine.

It's just that those heroic souls suffered.

They finally get a chance to appear, but they're gone in no time, especially the gatekeeper, who only gets one shot.

so...

Adding a touch of sophistication is still necessary here.

The main narrative style is still HF, but I added the stories of other characters who should have died much earlier, increased their battle scenes, and used gorgeous battle scenes to drag out the plot.

After all... the more pages, the more money you make.

So, this comic, which I originally estimated would only last for thirty or forty chapters at most, ended up being drawn by me in a frenzy, especially the battle scenes, and I accidentally drew it to eighty chapters before it was finally finished.

That's right, actually...

While waiting for Tokiomi Tohsaka and the Mage's Association to arrive, he was drawing this to distract himself.

I added some original elements to the original work, maintaining a pace of about two chapters and forty pages a day... and only recently finished drawing it.

Originally, he didn't want to continue drawing the rest, but why hasn't anyone come looking for him? What happened to the mystery?!

Is it really that boring?

However, regarding some plot points in the manga, such as Matou Sakura's experiences in the Matou family... they were omitted as much as possible, directly transitioned, or even not mentioned at all. It was only said that she was miserable, but the specifics... are unknown, as they were not drawn.

Learn from this lesson: why does Fate/Zero receive so many negative reviews? It's because of this.

People in this era are relatively more accepting, but their capacity for acceptance is also quite limited. This is not contradictory.

After seeing Iwamoto Yu off.

Kurokawa Kazuya remained sullen... He had absolutely no desire for original content...

"What should I draw... Oh right, let's count my money, take stock of my recent assets. Then I'll go buy some houses..."

Come to think of it, he has never seriously cleaned these things up to this day.

He was shocked when he cleaned it.

First, last year he paid 3000 million yen in taxes on his comics...

This is before the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga volumes have been released.

He deliberately delayed the release of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga volumes because he wanted to redraw them before continuing. Then... plus other things, it was shocking—

He originally thought he would be lucky to have a few hundred billion yen when he sold off his assets, but in reality, he now has assets worth several hundred billion yen, and... he still owes the bank over 10 billion yen.

"Do you have that much money?"

黑川和弥并不知道...漫画家因为交税上新闻应该是1986年的时候，也就是明年。那个时候有一个漫画家以1亿4754万日元的纳税排名日本纳税名单第五。这个人，就是高桥留美子。她当时的漫画是福星小子。同年JUMC的高桥阳一凭借漫画《足球小子》纳税1亿2519万日元。

This is just the tax they paid after making money from one comic book. Their total income back then must have been over 200 million.

[A 37% tax will be levied on transactions exceeding 1800 million yen]

As for the upcoming releases of the manga volumes of "JOJO", "Battle Royale", and "Fate/Zero" by Kazuya Kurokawa this year, the latter two are expected to be completed within the year.

If JoJo takes more breaks during this period, it's not impossible for the second part to end at the end of next year (1986).

"Hmm...we can go buy another batch of properties."

Having money in my hand made me feel a little happier...

Making animation...

"91. That still seems a bit far away."

This year—was a peaceful year.

Kazuya Kurokawa's assets are steadily increasing.

Although Kurokawa Kazuya had been looking forward to the arrival of the mystery, there was no sign of it at all. His initial anticipation turned into frustration, and eventually into indifference.

Although he wanted to bring his younger sister back.

Unfortunately, the child has grown up and become disobedient...

It could only end inconclusively.

That year, whenever Kurokawa Kazuya had nothing to do, he would visit Ryougi's house... and spend the rest of his time drawing manga, redrawing the first and second parts of "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure".

The first volume of the manga was released.

The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga initially sold only 20 copies, but—the situation changed very quickly.

People who bought the collected volumes found that the pacing and battle scenes were more than twice as good as the version serialized in JUMC.

JUMC timely released the news that "Kurokawa-sensei felt that his drawing skills had improved, so he redrawn JOJO."

In an instant, original JOJO fans, as well as those who wanted to see why Kurokawa Kazuya, this tentacle monster, had redrawn the story, all bought the collected volumes of "JOJO's Bizarre Adventure".

So sales exceeded 80... Sure enough, redrawing it is the only way.

On the other hand, Battle Royale also sold 15 copies of its standalone edition.

The best performer is undoubtedly Fate/Zero, which sold 150 million copies at launch and is still rising rapidly.

JUMC did not immediately begin publishing the epilogue after Fate/Zero ended; instead, they waited two issues and released two announcements before releasing it.

After that, there was a two-episode gap.

Fate/stay night only began serialization in 86.

then...

Time passed, and 1986 came to an end, bringing us to 1987.

That year, Kurokawa Kazumi also graduated from elementary school and entered junior high school, where she was already in her second year!

The conclusion of Fate/Zero also brought him a new ability and a new manga...

Chapter Seventy-Three: The Pillar Man

"Kurokawa Kazuya..."

Watching the latest episode of "Fate/stay night," he once again uttered that person's name.

"It's gotten to the point where it's completely out of control... Zouken Matou!" His anger towards this person had reached its peak.

Even constantly telling myself to remain elegant couldn't quell the anger.

It's all because of this person...

If it weren't for this person, things wouldn't be so bad now!

......

On the other side—

Kurokawa Kazuya fell asleep—

"This...this is—I can't move, I can't move—" Kurokawa Kazuya couldn't see what was happening outside; he felt as if he were sealed inside a stone statue.

but--

All around him, there was something like flowing water, which his body was reflexively absorbing.

"This state, this feeling... could it be—a Pillar Man!? I've become a Pillar Man?"

At that moment, he felt he could move again. The stones that had covered him were like his skin, capable of transforming into real skin at any time—

"Flowing blood, a pillar of man... Could it be that I've become a Santana now?"

Santana is the first Pillarman that Joseph Joestar, the protagonist of this series, encounters, and is also the weakest one. He doesn't know the flow technique that all the other Pillarmen will have!

According to Kurokawa Kazuya's guess, Kaz and the others had almost wiped out all the Ripple users before Santana grew up, which is why he didn't know about Ripple or the existence of the Ripple users.

However—to my utter surprise, I became a Santana!

"This feeling... I'm so hungry... My body feels extremely hungry, but... even so, the life energy is so powerful!"

His physical body in reality now possesses a life energy level that he has categorized into 10 levels.

And now, this weakest pillar person, after sleeping for thousands of years, still has at least level 30 life energy in his body!

How amazing!

Furthermore, as he continuously absorbed the blood around him, his life energy continued to rise as if there were no limit.

"I remember there are German troops outside, right? And they'll be here soon... or maybe Joseph Joestar is already here..." Kurokawa Kazuya thought to himself. "I'll absorb some blood first... to increase my life energy. Even if I can't use Ripple, it doesn't matter. I'll go out and see what's going on."